-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gene,
Your point is well taken. I do not expect the Gimp people to keep on top of printing at all. But why not have Gutenprint be a pre-requisite to Gimp? Why deliver a broken default printing system? For the record, my distro does deliver the Gutenprint Gimp plug-in, but it wasn't installed by default. As I mentioned before, this is not a distro issue. Software should "just work". We should all be moving toward this goal. Gene Heskett wrote: > Those of us who've used Gimp for the last half decade and more, just know > that > we should also pull in gutenprint, or if your distro doesn't have it, build > it > from the tarball, its not THAT difficult. In my opinion, this attitude is completely wrong. Gimp needs to work out-of-the-box. As I mentioned, I used Gimp for many years and I was caught by surprise by this Gutenprint thing. Just imagine a novice Linux user. Imagine your mother-in-law who wants to print a photo with Gimp. She will fail. That is my point. I think that you all are missing the point that I'm making. Your mother-in-law will be confused by "Print" and "Print with Gutenprint". Nobody has to worry about this garbage with Photoshop -- the user does File->Print and it "just works". Us open-source guys are smart talented people. Let's make software that actually works and is easy-to-use. Regards, Erik. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpr144ACgkQY21D/n6bGwfE5gCfUvdyAPOlXBVASX/L51I89gLq dUEAoMChp+lpOuC6lCaODbsmJzLqgWko =0HVb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
