Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-24 Thread Carol Spears
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 10:31:40PM -0700, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: I have some experience in designing pngs and graphics for GNU/Linux music applications, as I am also a musician and a member of linux-audio-dev and linux-audio-user - the same discussion arose on those lists, also for

[Gimp-developer] Help system

2004-10-24 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
I run gimp in swedish and the translation is very good. The help files however are mostly blank pages. I have to quit and start gimp in english in order to get any help. Of course this problem can be solved by deleting the swedish documentation and then I assume I would get the english one. But

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, miriam clinton (iriXx) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As part of our discussions, I raised the issue of why I find the GIMP difficult to use as a graphic designer. Although it is quite a formidable translation of many of the graphics tools, we graphic designers are visual thinkers and rely

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help with gimp directory structure

2004-10-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Jean-Sebastien Senecal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm working on an open-source software for real-time mix-medias, similar to Puredata. We've started using part of the Gimp code for image processing. For now, I was able to move the composition functions in paint-funcs.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help system

2004-10-24 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
Ie read a thread some months ago on GIMP developers saying that the Gimp-ghelp should be designed in such a way that, when a page did not exist for a locale, it would fall back to other languages in a given order. Was that implemented? If so..is the fallback to swedish en ? And Dennis: No,

Re: [Gimp-docs] Re: [Gimp-developer] Help system

2004-10-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ie read a thread some months ago on GIMP developers saying that the Gimp-ghelp should be designed in such a way that, when a page did not exist for a locale, it would fall back to other languages in a given order. Was that

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, let me add another note just to make sure you don't get us wrong. Of course we appreciate your offer and I think that you could indeed help us. You could for example try to describe and to compare common workflows in GIMP, Photoshop or other image manipulation programs. Such a comparison is

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-24 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
thanks Sven and Carol for your answers... I'll get back to you with more details about the GUI, as i'm working on an art project at the moment, but to answer some immediate queries: - I'm using Photoshop 7.0 - strangely enough, I find it, and all the other tools I use, highly intuitive - the

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-24 Thread Manish Singh
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:12:46PM -0700, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: thanks Sven and Carol for your answers... I'll get back to you with more details about the GUI, as i'm working on an art project at the moment, but to answer some immediate queries: - I'm using Photoshop 7.0 -

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, miriam clinton (iriXx) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - I was using the GIMP supplied by Mandrake 9.2, but I'll download the latest version. IIRC that would be gimp-1.2 then. You'd have to compare that to PS5. Basically you are ignoring the last four years of GIMP development. Please udpate