[Gimp-developer] STUB

2001-02-23 Thread David Odin
Hi, I'm trying to compile and run the current cvs gimp. I know I have to expect to bug here or there, but I've seen quite a strange thing: When I run the gimp, it always segfault with this backtrace: #0 g_on_error_stack_trace (prg_name=0xbb78 "lt-gimp") at gerror.c:176 #1 0x4002a59c

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-23 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:58:06AM +0100, Ernst Lippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > protocol for communication between plug-ins and Gimp that are all > running on the same machine, you are free to choose any non standard > protocol you like. It's free software. You are always free to use whatever

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-23 Thread Ernst Lippe
Marc Lehmann wrote: > I'd like to remind people that corba is not the only way to go, as there > is also dco and especially MCOP (which was designed for realtime and > multimedia applications). While CORBA might indeed be the best choice, it > mustn't be choosen just because it has more letters ;-

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-23 Thread Ernst Lippe
Marc Lehmann wrote: > I'd like to remind people that corba is not the only way to go, as there > is also dco and especially MCOP (which was designed for realtime and > multimedia applications). While CORBA might indeed be the best choice, it > mustn't be choosen just because it has more letters ;-

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-23 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:53:14PM -0500, Michael Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what the gimp protocol is - clearly for _massive_ > chunks of data, shared memory is the only way to go. Vladimir has a nice > CORBA interface for dealing with setting up shmem chunks to

[Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Nathan, On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Nathan C Summers wrote: > Having plug-ins available to run on other hosts would be nice. Think > a gimp farm. CORBA would seem to be an ideal solution to all of these > issues. Can CORBA handle the large amounts of data transfer gimp > requires at least

Re: [Gimp-developer] RGB vs RGBA - why Add Alpha Channel?

2001-02-23 Thread Nick Lamb
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 06:30:53PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does this mean that you agree to ditching all the special code > for the 3 and 1 byte case as well? I'd really love to see this > changes although as already stated this might introduce a bit > memory overhead in case the us

Re: [Gimp-developer] RGB vs RGBA - why Add Alpha Channel?

2001-02-23 Thread egger
On 22 Feb, Sven Neumann wrote: > We'll face one problem if we decide to make alpha the default for all > images: A lot of fileformats do not understand alpha and you actually > don't want to save the alpha channel with the image at all if you > never touched it. One way to solve this would be to

[Gimp-developer] File location for plug-in auxiliary files

2001-02-23 Thread Ernst Lippe
The installed version of a plug-in can contain other files than just the executable, e.g. help files and locale files. When the user has root permissions these files can be installed on the standard locations for the system, but where should these files be installed when that is not the case? The

Re: [Gimp-developer] introduction + localisation questions

2001-02-23 Thread egger
On 22 Feb, Sven Neumann wrote: > The file README.i18n in the gimp tree provides more information > that might be interesting for you. Uhoh, that reminds me that it's really needed to rewrite that file... :) -- Servus, Daniel ___ Gimp-devel