"For example, I tried for over an hour to figure out the bug reporting function on teh website. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I'm sure it's easy for a programmer..."
I agree with that... after XX number of seconds going through that thing myself, I gave up. It isn't easy enough to use. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Jon White Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:17 PM To: Jeffrey McBeth Cc: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] gimp crashed while saving Jeffrey McBeth wrote: I'm working > through Peter's problems, I hope help him on this. I have so far been > unable to reproduce his issue, even with the image he has provided, > which BTW, counts as one of the more disconcerting images I've seen in a > while. What do you do for a living? I build bicycle wheels. The photo is of some eskimos butchering a whale. It was shot by a friend for whom I was trying to get The Gimp working, and was the first image I loaded into The Gimp. > > I suspect Peter didn't get a response on the first three times because > none of us has seen what he saw, and he is not familiar with how to > report bugs in a development environment. This is complicated by the > fact that we are all _users _ here, just like him. Except that there is one person who has been posting all along who has a gimp.org email address. I even sent that person a private email asking if he could direct me to a source of tech support. No reply, and he's been corresponding with others on the list since. We help each other > because we are nice people. Most of us are "business people" too, so > wild comments about needing to teach us about how things work in the > real world are unwelcome. But what you call "wild comments" may be helpful to the people developing The Gimp and who are soliciting donations. For example, I tried for over an hour to figure out the bug reporting function on teh website. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. I'm sure it's easy for a programmer, but for a bicycle wheelbuilder it's less than obvious how it works. My comments were not directed at other users, but at the developers. > I install GIMP on new machines at least once a week as part of doing my > work, and have never had it fail out of the box. Peter has had the > opposite experience. Computers are like that. Shit happens. > > Jeff I agree. But when someone points out a problem on a forum monitored by the product's developers, I would thing the developers would take some interest. -- Peter Jon White Peter White Cycles 24 Hall Rd. Hillsborough, NH 03244 603 478 0900 Phone 603 478 0902 Phax http://www.PeterWhiteCycles.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
