On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:49:54AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > This happens when I try to "Save As" from Gnumeric or Gimp or > > AbiWord. I select a directory and try to navigate into it by left > > clicking on the folder icon. Nothing happens. If I madly left-click > > away on it for 15 or 20 seconds, the folder finally opens up. There > > has got to be an easier way. Note: I'm running ICEWM, not GNOME. > > Gnumeric/Gimp/Abiword are GNOME apps that I'd happily get rid of, if > > the alternatives weren't worse. > > I never had this problem with Gimp or any other gtk2 based program. > > I'm using XFCE and have no Gnome installed. Works perfect. Many years > ago I used Gimp with KDE3. Also without problems. > > Never used Gnumeric or Abiword. I'm using Libreoffice instead. > > I don't know what kind of work you do with Gimp. So I can't give you > a recommendation for a replacement. What I can say is that you will > not find a program for Linux with the same features as Gimp. But > depending on what you wanna do you will maybe find some other tool > that will meet your demands. > > Btw: I don't think that Gimp is a Gnome app. It just has some > dependencies that also Gnome has, but it can be installed and used > without Gnome.
GTK+, the base of GNOME, first started out as "Gimp ToolKit". That's where the acronym "GTK" came from. So yes, GIMP is a GNOME app. I also run AbiWord and Gnumeric without full-blown-GNOME. What's maddening is that Gnumeric seems to be pulling in more and more GNOME dependancies. E.g. it used to be able to build without Goffice libs or Ghostscript or dbus. I have some large spreadsheets that kill LibreOffice or OpenOffice merely importing the spreadsheet, so no option. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
