Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-03 Thread nuno alexandre
On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 11:41 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Sooner or later GIMP will not any longer load all data files and it > will provide categories to organize them and all that. This is already > planned and it might even come into existence to some extent for GIMP > 2.4. Cool, thanks - that'

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-03 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, michael chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does that actually reload them? If so, then it sounds feisable, if > you write a utility (e.g. in perl or something else with a GUI and > shell manipulation capabilities) to switch these directories in and > out. [I'm not sure typing ln -s /dir/ /

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-02 Thread michael chang
On 7/2/05, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > michael chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sound logical, except if I recall correctly The GIMP loads brushes, > > patterns etc. on startup. > > What keeps you from pressing the Refresh button in the brushes and/or > patterns dial

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, michael chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sound logical, except if I recall correctly The GIMP loads brushes, > patterns etc. on startup. What keeps you from pressing the Refresh button in the brushes and/or patterns dialog? Sven ___ Gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-02 Thread michael chang
On 7/1/05, Michael Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Von: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:53:56PM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: > > > > when you want to apply other surfaces, you need to restart the > > > application - and that's what I think its not accep

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-01 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:53:56PM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: > > when you want to apply other surfaces, you need to restart the > > application - and that's what I think its not acceptable. > > > well, what were you using and is this still an option t

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:53:56PM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 19:42 -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:48:02AM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:35 -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > > > > > > > the only drawback is that the gimp

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-01 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:30:45AM -0400, michael chang wrote: > On 6/30/05, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That said, The GIMP technically *shouldn't* load *all* of it's brushes > on startup, should it? (At least not when a user has this many > brushes and patterns.) Like there sho

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-01 Thread nuno alexandre
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 19:42 -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:48:02AM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:35 -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > > > > > the only drawback is that the gimp will not work well this way without a > > > little work on your part. me

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-07-01 Thread michael chang
On 6/30/05, Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and even with other current software that is available to me, i am still > asking the question "what is the reason you need to get a whole freaking > office suite and install it so that you can simply read a file that ends > in .doc?" oh, the

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-06-30 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:48:02AM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:35 -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > > > the only drawback is that the gimp will not work well this way without a > > little work on your part. meaning that the directories are not > > available until gimp is re

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-06-30 Thread nuno alexandre
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 15:35 -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > the only drawback is that the gimp will not work well this way without a > little work on your part. meaning that the directories are not > available until gimp is restarted. > > all of the tools are there to manage your resources however.

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp-2.3.1 slow loading resources

2005-06-30 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:11:42PM +0200, nuno alexandre wrote: > > The problem is that whenever I start TheGimp it takes so much time to > load > that it eventually crashes my machine every time. > The disks start to trash and everything comes to a halt. > My setup is a amd64 3500+ with 1GB ram a