Re: [Gimp-user] You can follow the Discourse server in Thunderbird using RSS

2022-10-25 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
> > > Hi, > > you can use Discourse Gnome as a mailing list. The funny thing is, that > using it as a mailing list, it requires to turn of the mailing list > feature, not to enable it. Instead of enabling the mailing list feature, > you need to choose the wanted tag, in your case it's probably "gim

Re: [Gimp-user] Affinity is an alternative

2022-10-24 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
THAT is definitely trolling. On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 02:46, Rick Strong wrote: > No, I was just trying to be helpful to those who may be looking for an > inexpensive alternative. It would seem I've disturbed the religious > purists. > Linux is for losers. > > R > > -Original Message- > Fr

Re: [Gimp-user] Slow startup time and possible problem with DBus instance lock on Linux

2022-06-23 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Did you stop/start the DBus daemon? On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 08:15, Ofnuts via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > I run several Gimp versions (currently 2.10.24 and 2.10.30). Each > version has its own user profile. I had a couple of crashes of the > 2.10.30 version recently. > > R

Re: [Gimp-user] Update blocked by trend micro

2021-11-16 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Do you have anything other than vague claims of guruship to back that up? I've worked with several brands of security software (including supporting some of them in corporate environments) and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. I've used TrendMicro, and don't remember anything distincti

Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-27 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
y 19 October 2021 21:23:50 Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote: > > > The 'text problem' has been discussed many times, and the root cause > > is people not understanding how the tools works. I did (for my own > > satisfaction) quite a lot of fiddling with the tool

Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-22 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
rks *for me*." If it appeared to be confronting, I apologise. That wasn't my intent. Incidentally, I appear to have replied to all. My mistake, sorry. Cliff On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 10:52 PM Simon Budig wrote: > Hi all. > > Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list (gimp-user-list@gnome.org)

Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-22 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
ober 2021 21:23:50 Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote: > > > > > The 'text problem' has been discussed many times, and the root cause > > > is people not understanding how the tools works. I did (for my own > > > satisfaction) quite a lot of fiddling with

Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-19 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
The 'text problem' has been discussed many times, and the root cause is people not understanding how the tools works. I did (for my own satisfaction) quite a lot of fiddling with the tool + its options, and I've been able to reproduce all the issues that I've seen reported. As far as I can recall t

Re: [Gimp-user] Canvas Size on Crop

2021-10-17 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
I find tutorials of limited use. They usually use out of date versions, and some are just plain wrong. Use them as rough guides only. Cliff On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 4:50 AM Ofnuts via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > On 17/10/2021 10:24, Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2021-10-17 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
There's not enough information there to tell what is going wrong. Where are you making the changes, on screen or in the tool options, for example. As I recall there have been similar discussions in the past, and it may pay to look at teh archives. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:00 PM Ru

Re: [Gimp-user] Debian 11, updated, Gimp 2.10.22 - bad clone tool

2021-10-16 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
I'm not sure why, but you get a message "select source image first." Cliff On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 1:26 PM Dedeco Balaco via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > Em 16/10/2021 21:14, Liam R E Quin escreveu: > > On Sat, 2021-10-16 at 20:45 -0300, Dedeco Balaco via gimp-user-list

Re: [Gimp-user] Recurring mouse problem in GIMP 2.8.22

2021-07-16 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 6:48 PM Techno wrote: > On 2021-07-15 22:44, Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list wrote: > > Although you say this only happens in GIMP, I would expect to have seen > > many more complaints in the community if it was a GIMP (only) problem. I > > would n

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Buttons are blurry

2021-07-15 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Those look disabled to me. I don't see the same on gimp 2.10.22 on Linux, Cliff On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 4:14 AM John Coppens wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 08:06:39 +0300 > Ilya Novikov via gimp-user-list wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > Just want to ask - does anyone on gimp 2.10.22 (macos) also

Re: [Gimp-user] Recurring mouse problem in GIMP 2.8.22

2021-07-15 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Although you say this only happens in GIMP, I would expect to have seen many more complaints in the community if it was a GIMP (only) problem. I would not give up on looking outside GIMP for the issue. It may be a conflict between GIMP and some other software, running at the same time as GIMP. eg A

Re: [Gimp-user] Violation of GNOME Code of Conduct - ablelist language and discrimination

2021-05-25 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
FWIW There are distasteful meanings of the word Glimpse, too. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 8:15 AM Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Dear Michael, > > If I were to summarize our conversation with GNOME Foundation a few > months back, it would

Re: [Gimp-user] Adding a text box

2021-02-11 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
You don't say why you want to do this. Is it for a website, or for an illustrated book? In either case, I would suggest looking at alternative ways of associating the image and the text. If it is for a webpage, then you should be able to put the text in a sidebar or caption. Same for a book. It dep

Re: [Gimp-user] Opening uncompressed NASA image files in GIMP

2020-12-07 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
That's what it looks like before you open the "Folders" folder/dropdown. Click on the arrow to the left of "Folders" in the left pane to see all the directories. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 4:06 PM Rick Kline wrote: > I looked in Gimp > Preferences > Folders. The only two listed are >

Re: [Gimp-user] Opening uncompressed NASA image files in GIMP

2020-12-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Just out of curiosity, probably nothing to do with your problem, what do you mean by "my system didn't like $HOME/"? In Unix-like systems, the $HOME variable equates to /home/, usually. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 5:30 PM Rick Kline wrote: > I found where GIMP plug-ins are stored by s

Re: [Gimp-user] Image Compression

2020-12-02 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Pictures in a magazine are likely to be copyrighted. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 4:59 AM Jason Amerson via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I scanned in a magazine as JPEGs, 300 dpi and high compression, but > still each file is over a megabyte. When I cre

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP 2.10 .xcf files can't open in GIMP 2.8

2020-12-02 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
I guess you could export them to some other format and import them into an earlier version. If you really need to do it. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 7:00 AM Techno wrote: > On 2020-11-29 20:00, Alexandre Prokoudine via gimp-user-list wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 3:43 AM Techno w

Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2020-10-05 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Ok, I now have 2.8.22 running in Ubuntu in a VM. That's as close as I can get to your setup - Debian 9 and Gimp 2.8.?. This is vanilla, out of the box, no configuration. I created a new blank image, and selected the text tool. In the Tool Options the font is "Sans", the size is 18 px and the colo

Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2020-10-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
There's a flatpak on gimp.org. If you want a Debian version, there is one of those too, available through the debian repositories. Both 2.10.something. Where did you get your 2.8 version from? Cliff On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 5:26 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 04 October 2020 00:10:53 Rick Str

Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2020-10-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
33 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 October 2020 21:23:35 Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list > wrote: > > > Hm, how many text layers do you have? > > > > If I create a text layer I can create it with the particular font and > > font size. When I create anoth

Re: [Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

2020-10-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Hm, how many text layers do you have? If I create a text layer I can create it with the particular font and font size. When I create another text layer, I can set the font, etc in the new layer to something different. If I then decide that the font is wrong in the first text layer, and I select th

Re: [Gimp-user] Installing Gimp 2.10.18 on Mac OS using macports

2020-05-07 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Just out of interest, (I'm not a Mac user), would it take as long if you were to rebuild? In other words, does the process always rebuild everything or is it cleverer than that? Cheers, Cliff On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 5:24 AM Luthien wrote: > Since there's still no official Mac OS build for Mac O

Re: [Gimp-user] Execution error for procedure 'gimp-file-save': Unknown file type

2020-04-30 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
A quick look at a code snippet I found. It does this: (gimp-file-save RUN-NONINTERACTIVE image layer file-name file-name) So 'gimp-file-save' apparently takes parameters (at least, in the version of GIMP that the script is written for. You would probably have to wrap the gimp-file-save in a scr

Re: [Gimp-user] Execution error for procedure 'gimp-file-save': Unknown file type

2020-04-30 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:05 AM Keith Christian via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Trying to run a script that will save all open Gimp windows named > "[Untitled] - 1.0 (RGB color." after a rapid screenshot session. > > I found an older script which has this command but it

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp version

2020-04-19 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
What do you mean by "software center"? Do you mean the "Ubuntu Software" app? When I look at Ubuntu Software it shows 4 entries for Gimp. It claims I have many of them installed. There are three sources. They are 'ubuntu-eoan-universe' (2.10.8-2), 'dh.flathub.org' (2.10.12), and 'snap store' (2.10

Re: [Gimp-user] A problem

2020-04-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
I see, I think. Personally I have nothing on my desktop. I have only the equivalent of that band at the bottom of the Mac screen that expands your app icons. Dunno what it's called. But I'm going to call 'off topic'. Nice chat though. Cheers, Cliff On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 10:11 AM Daniel Smith v

Re: [Gimp-user] A problem

2020-04-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
ri, Apr 3, 2020 at 4:24 AM Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list < > gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > >> On the desktop? That's probably not the best place. Unless that is a >> mac-ism that I don't understand. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Cliff >>

Re: [Gimp-user] A problem

2020-04-03 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
On the desktop? That's probably not the best place. Unless that is a mac-ism that I don't understand. Cheers, Cliff On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 9:24 PM Bob Letterman wrote: > I have used Gimp for years. I just bought a new I-Mac. Best Buy > transferred the data to the new, OS Catalina I-Mac from my

Re: [Gimp-user] No gimp-python in Debian (Testing)

2020-02-18 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Scratch my previous replies. There are two issues here. The first is to make python2.7 and friends, including gimp-python, available in a system running testing. This could perhaps be done by running a mixed stable/testing system. I've done this is the past without major issues, but you'll need to

Re: [Gimp-user] No gimp-python in Debian (Testing)

2020-02-18 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
What distro are you using? python2.7 and the rest are available on Debian 10. I think it is an issue for the distro creators to address as all the necessary packages exist in vanilla Debian. Cheers, Cliff On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 3:51 PM Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org>

Re: [Gimp-user] No gimp-python in Debian (Testing)

2020-02-18 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Do you have python installed? On my Ubuntu system the 'python' package is 2.7. All python 3 packages are called python3-something. Cheers, Cliff On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 3:54 PM Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > Update: > > I tried to install gimp-python from m

Re: [Gimp-user] Start Up for 2.8

2019-11-20 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Try going to the Windows option and second option, Dockable Dialogs. I Have 2.10 so it might be slightly different for you. Cheers, Cliff On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 8:43 AM super90 wrote: > Hi All, I am new to GIMP and it was loaded on my Linux Mint Tessa > version. When > I opened the program,

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install Resynthesizer (et al.) plugins in version 2.10.8

2019-03-24 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
There's a few reasons that I can think of. A different set of maintainers and developers, maybe. Separation into a separate package also means that the python package can be updated without waiting for a Gimp update. Cheers, Cliff On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 9:33 PM Ofnuts wrote: > On 3/20/19 3:16

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install Resynthesizer (et al.) plugins in version 2.10.8

2019-03-18 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Jacobs via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list > To: gimp-user-list > Sent: Sun, Mar 17, 2019 6:53 pm > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install Resynthesizer (et al.) plugins i

Re: [Gimp-user] Can't install Resynthesizer (et al.) plugins in version 2.10.8

2019-03-17 Thread Cliff Pratt via gimp-user-list
Is it saying it can't find "python"? Cheers, Cliff On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:40 AM Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: > I have recently installed Debian testing LXQt, and it's version of GIMP is > 2.10.8. > I was using Lubuntu Next 17.10 LXQt, with GIMP version