Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-10 Thread Robert L Krawitz
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 13:40:11 +1000 From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Robert, Thank you for the explanation. I can understand the problem of saving preferences if someone has several instances of an application open. Do you know what Gimp does? No I don't. The main probl

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-10 Thread Lourens Veen
"Rebecca J. Walter" wrote: > > I don't think I have ever heard of anyone running multiple GIMPs at one > time. WHY would you need to do this? You do know that you can have any > number of images open, right? I do it all the time. I use multiple workspaces, and I usually keep things together by

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-10 Thread J.
> Hello Robert, > Thank you for the explanation. I can understand the problem of saving > preferences if someone has several instances of an application open. Do > you know what Gimp does? I don't think I have ever heard of anyone running multiple GIMPs at one time. WHY would you need to do thi

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-09 Thread Peter
Robert L Krawitz wrote: > > This sounds a lot like how shared libraries (and indeed, shared text > in general) work, but it's not enough to solve the problem. If you > run multiple copies of an application (on most UNIX-like operating > systems, and even Windows is probably smart enough these da

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-09 Thread Robert L Krawitz
From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:08:21 +1000 - There is the window within window concept. StarOffice and Microsoft Works both open a window containing multiple windows. I do not like those instances of windows within windows because they group unrelated

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-08 Thread Peter
Raphael Quinet wrote: > > Yesterday, I wrote: > > > Hmmm... Maybe I should re-post this as an article on Advogato? > > > > That's what I did. You can find the article here: >http://advogato.org/article/287.html > Some of the replies are interesting, even if they would be a bit > off-topic

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-08 Thread Raphael Quinet
Yesterday, I wrote: > Hmmm... Maybe I should re-post this as an article on Advogato? > That's what I did. You can find the article here: http://advogato.org/article/287.html Some of the replies are interesting, even if they would be a bit off-topic for this list. -Raphael ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-07 Thread Branko Collin
On 7 Jun 2001, at 10:37, Sven Neumann wrote: > Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can GIMP be started with all the windows grouped the way I want? > > [... lots of complains deleted] > > Your problem is basically that your window manager sucks. Well, the Window manager sucks, but I believ

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-07 Thread Peter
Sven Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can GIMP be started with all the windows grouped the way I want? > > [... lots of complains deleted] > > Your problem is basically that your window manager sucks. If working > on Unix using a decent window manager, you can

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-07 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: > Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can GIMP be started with all the windows grouped the way I want? >> [... lots of complains deleted] > > Your problem is basically that your window manager sucks. If working > on Unix using a decent window manager

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can GIMP be started with all the windows grouped the way I want? > [... lots of complains deleted] Your problem is basically that your window manager sucks. If working on Unix using a decent window manager, you can use a separate virtual desktop for Gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-06 Thread Lourens Veen
Peter wrote: > > Can GIMP be started with all the windows grouped the way I want? It simply reloads the previous configuration on Linux. But I don't know about the Windows version. > That way, when I am in GIMP, the whole screen is working the Gimp way, > and when I am in Word, the whole scree

[Gimp-developer] GUI comment from an NT user

2001-06-06 Thread Peter
Can GIMP be started with all the windows grouped the way I want? All the talk about user interfaces made me think about what annoys me most. using the desktop analogy, normal Windows applications look like an organized desktop and Gimp/Apple style applications look like a messy desktop. I do not