Re: [Gimp-developer] status report from the development branch

2004-05-04 Thread Nathan Carl Summers
On 4 May 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "Branko Collin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > By abbreviating 'Scale Y:' to 'Y:', you are forcing the user to make > > an extra mental transaction, namely to first read the 'Scale X:' > > label, which only is partially related to what the 'Scale Y:'

Re: [Gimp-developer] Account of meeting with the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's the main points. We now have 3 ways immediately that > people can donate to the GIMP (cheque, wire transfer and > non-gnome foundation paypal account), with a 4th way to follow > (GNOME Foundation paypal account). We should get this information

[Gimp-developer] Account of meeting with the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread David Neary
Hi all, David Neary wrote: > Myself and Dan Rogers will be meeting with someone from the GNOME > Foundation this week with the intention of having greater > co-operation with them on things like money. Here's the rough summary of that meeting. We discussed whether a GIMP Foundation was viable a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Kelly Martin
Daniel Rogers wrote: Dave neary and I talked to Tim Ney about this. There is goign to be a small cut taken by TGF. It is very close to the lower end of your range, but I won't know specifically until the board approves the number (which they are supposed to do soon). Another matter you should

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Daniel Rogers
Kelly Martin wrote: I'd be very surprised if the GNOME Foundation passed along *all* funds untouched donated with a simple earmark for the GIMP to the GIMP people; I would fully expect them to take an "administrative fee" of between 5% and 50% (maybe even more). You might want to have an agre

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Daniel Rogers
Daniel Rogers wrote: Dave neary and I talked to Tim Ney about this. There is goign to be a small cut taken by TGF. It is very close to the lower end of your range, but I won't know specifically until the board approves the number (which they are supposed to do soon). I should stop abbreviatin

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Kelly Martin
Daniel Rogers wrote: No no, I'm talking about general funds. Not sure if GNOME would withhold funds specifically given to us, that is a slighly different situation. I am talking about funding from GNOME's general pool of funds. Also, I don't actually expect them to do something like this. GN

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Daniel Rogers
Branko Collin wrote: On 3 May 2004, at 9:05, Daniel Rogers wrote: Above all, everyone should know you are a volunteer. And as long as you are a volunteer, noone can tell you to do anything. The law can. The GPL has this nice provision stating that, since we're all volunteers and we're giving

Re: [Gimp-developer] status report from the development branch

2004-05-04 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Branko Collin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By abbreviating 'Scale Y:' to 'Y:', you are forcing the user to make > an extra mental transaction, namely to first read the 'Scale X:' > label, which only is partially related to what the 'Scale Y:' control > does. It works the other way arou

Re: [Gimp-developer] Screenshots

2004-05-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Branko, Branko Collin wrote: On 4 May 2004, at 0:01, David Neary wrote: It would be really cool to have lots & lots of screenshots of the GIMP on www.gimp.org. Could someone from the web team take responsibility for this and publish an e-mail address where screenshots can be sent to be included

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nathan Carl Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It should be pointed out that Sven is our main point of contact > between GTK and GIMP, so I'm sure he's much more aware of the > continuing interaction between the two projects. I'd say the main contact and the one who writes the most patche

RE: [Gimp-developer] Plug-in howto

2004-05-04 Thread Bartekk
Hi Sven and Dave, > -Original Message- > From: Sven Neumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sven > Neumann > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 12:47 PM > To: Bartekk > Cc: Gimp Developer > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Plug-in howto > > For such a simple plug-in you will probably want t

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "Branko Collin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3 May 2004, at 12:51, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > Every time we port GIMP to new features of the GIMP toolkit I > > get the strong impression that we are the first using the new > > API. > > Is this phenomenon constricted to GTK? No, but we

Re: [Gimp-developer] status report from the development branch

2004-05-04 Thread Branko Collin
On 4 May 2004, at 11:39, Sven Neumann wrote: > Nathan Carl Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (For those unfamiliar with the independent-labeling guideline, the > > HIG suggests that the entire meaning of a control be contained in > > the label, because those with screen-readers cannot tell

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Branko Collin
On 3 May 2004, at 12:51, Sven Neumann wrote: > Every time we port GIMP to new features of the GIMP toolkit I > get the strong impression that we are the first using the new > API. Is this phenomenon constricted to GTK? -- branko collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [Gimp-developer] Joining the GNOME Foundation

2004-05-04 Thread Branko Collin
On 3 May 2004, at 9:05, Daniel Rogers wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote: > > > It's not that we wouldn't put a lot of effort into making GIMP work > > well on a GNOME desktop. Adhering to FreeDesktop standards is one of > > our goals and we are even working towards full GNOME HIG compliance. > > The onl

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Menu Reorganization

2004-05-04 Thread Branko Collin
On 30 Apr 2004, at 14:43, Nathan Carl Summers wrote: > Hmm, the last message I sent seemed not to get through, so here it is > another time. > > Noting that several people have expressed desires to improve GIMP's > menu structure, I have started a Wiki page which we can use as a > whiteboard for

Re: [Gimp-developer] Screenshots

2004-05-04 Thread Branko Collin
On 4 May 2004, at 0:01, David Neary wrote: > I was just looking for some nice looking screenshots to show off > on the GUADEC GIMP pages, and the best ones are all on > developer.gimp.org > > It would be really cool to have lots & lots of screenshots of the GIMP > on www.gimp.org. Could someone f

[Gimp-developer] resignation of web team; open position for Windows section maintainer

2004-05-04 Thread Branko Collin
In disgust I unsubscribed myself from the gimp-web mailinglist in February. Disgust because of the way I felt a hard-working web team had been treated by those who actually have access to the webserver. Whether my view of that treatment is correct or not is irrelevant, it's how I feel about it

Re: [Gimp-developer] status report from the development branch

2004-05-04 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nathan Carl Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Colons are definitely required; the HIG states that they help screen > readers identify which component is being labeled. On the other hand, > labeling the two components "X Scale:" and "Y Scale:" seems to conform > better to the independent-

Re: [Gimp-developer] Screenshots

2004-05-04 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem with the screenshots on dgo is that they are screenshots > > of the 1.3.x development version. Most of them clearly don't look like > > 2.0. It shouldn't be too difficult to redo these shots with an > > uptodate version. I am sure people

Re: [Gimp-developer] Screenshots

2004-05-04 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Sven Sven Neumann wrote: David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I was just looking for some nice looking screenshots to show off on the GUADEC GIMP pages, and the best ones are all on developer.gimp.org The problem with the screenshots on dgo is that they are screenshots of the 1.3.x developme