Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-10 Thread Heinrich Moser
Hi! Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org writes: On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:14 +0700, Charles wrote: The FileOpen plugin can be found here http://asso.lsf.05.free.fr/telechargement/image/gimp/?M=A Great, thanks a lot! I tried it with GIMP 2.6.4, it worked but we need to create a new image first

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 08:14 +0700, Charles wrote: The FileOpen plugin can be found here http://asso.lsf.05.free.fr/telechargement/image/gimp/?M=A I tried it with GIMP 2.6.4, it worked but we need to create a new image first before the menu become active, otherwise the menu is

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/8 Elwin Estle chrysalis_reb...@yahoo.com: I eject mine every time. Gimp is the only program that has this problem. I use Inkscape with it and it works fine. The problem is not that any particular user (you) does not eject disks properly. The problem is that the OS is designed to have

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-08 Thread Heinrich Moser
Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com writes: 2009/1/7 Jernej Simončič jernej.listso...@ena.si: On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:19:03 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: No, that is because your operating system of choice sucks at file I/O. Windows does not buffer access to flash and network drives. It does this

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-08 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:15:47 +0100, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:11:48 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: No, users rarely bother to eject (unmount) them before unplugging them because the OS works like this. If the OS said bad boy! and lost data _once_ then the users would stop.

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-08 Thread Charles
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Heinrich Moser use...@heinzi.at wrote: Hi! Short question: Is it possible to make GIMP use the default Windows File Open/Save dialog*, for example, by setting some secret configuration option? I remember that there was a plug-in for this a long time ago

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 01:24 +0100, Heinrich Moser wrote: I don't think I will further investigate this, since I don't see much point in this, to be honest. Yes, we could find out what's taking GIMP's file open dialog so long and make it be as fast as other GTK applications. But I really

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 18:16 -0800, Elwin Estle wrote: I wonder if a problem I have had with saving files from Gimp in Windows is somehow related. If I save direct to the local hard drive, there isn't much of a problem. But if I try to save to say, a flash drive plugged into the same

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Heinrich Moser
Hi! Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org writes: On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 01:24 +0100, Heinrich Moser wrote: I don't think I will further investigate this, since I don't see much point in this, to be honest. Yes, we could find out what's taking GIMP's file open dialog so long and make it be as fast as

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:11:37 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: The above mentioned plug-in will always only be a kludge as it can't provide all the features that an internal file dialog offers. So the focus should be on fixing the GtkFileChooser. There is absolutely no reason why it can't be as fast

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:19:03 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: No, that is because your operating system of choice sucks at file I/O. Windows does not buffer access to flash and network drives. It does this with removable drives because users rarely bother to eject (unmount) them before unplugging

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/7 Jernej Simončič jernej.listso...@ena.si: On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:19:03 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: No, that is because your operating system of choice sucks at file I/O. Windows does not buffer access to flash and network drives. It does this with removable drives because users rarely

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Elwin Estle
, I don't worry about it too much.) --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: From: Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog To: chrysalis_reb...@yahoo.com Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Date: Wednesday, January 7

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-07 Thread Elwin Estle
I eject mine every time. Gimp is the only program that has this problem. I use Inkscape with it and it works fine. --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

[Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-03 Thread Heinrich Moser
Hi! Short question: Is it possible to make GIMP use the default Windows File Open/Save dialog*, for example, by setting some secret configuration option? I remember that there was a plug-in for this a long time ago (which added Windows Open and Windows Save As menu options) but I cannot find

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/3 Heinrich Moser use...@heinzi.at: Is it possible to make GIMP use the default Windows File Open/Save dialog*, for example, by setting some secret configuration option? I remember that there was a plug-in for this a long time ago (which added Windows Open and Windows Save As menu

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-03 Thread Heinrich Moser
Hi! Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org writes: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 17:35 +0100, Heinrich Moser wrote: Is it possible to make GIMP use the default Windows File Open/Save dialog*, for example, by setting some secret configuration option? No. And we are certainly not willing to add such an option.

[Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-03 Thread Richard H.
I understand why it is the way it is, which is why I mention that it is sometimes the 'right' decision. However, end users don't like it, no matter what the technical merits may be. Also, each application obviously has it's own special needs, and the OS default File Chooser cannot satisfy them

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-03 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 00:17 +0100, Heinrich Moser wrote: Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org writes: On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 17:35 +0100, Heinrich Moser wrote: Is it possible to make GIMP use the default Windows File Open/Save dialog*, for example, by setting some secret configuration option?

Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog

2009-01-03 Thread Elwin Estle
, save first to the local hard drive, then transfer the file to the drive I actually want to store the file on.) --- On Sat, 1/3/09, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: From: Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Win32: Use standard Windows File Open/Save dialog To: Heinrich Moser