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are these things to avoid?

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are these things to avoid? Marco Ciampa 22 Feb 14:22
  are these things to avoid? Alexandre Prokoudine 22 Feb 14:59
  are these things to avoid? Michael Natterer 22 Feb 18:58
Marco Ciampa
2014-02-22 14:22:28 UTC (about 10 years ago)

are these things to avoid?

One like this:

commit ee772d398ffeed75b8ab1420c531fc1cae74ec32 Author: Michael Natterer
Date: Sat Feb 22 09:40:49 2014 +0100

Bug 694340 - EPS resolution capped @ 1440 on import

Increase to 8192 which is just as arbitrary but more reasonable.

Yes I know, I am _not_ a developer. But I think that this could be a bad idea. I may be wrong but there _should_ be a better way to handle situations like this. This is another:

commit 09a2105aae6f61b1916e4a62379ab96df8e5b53e Author: Michael Natterer
Date: Sun Oct 7 18:52:23 2012 +0200

Bug 615591 - Received 'gimp-image-set-resolution' out of bounds...

Increase the maximum resolution from the arbitrary 65536 to the arbitrary 1048576, until somebody tries an even better microscope...

Are these param fixed during compilation times? Could go these params into some preferences or some headers easily accessed for everyone that eventually could want to increase? Am I worrying for nothing?

Cheers,

Marco Ciampa

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Alexandre Prokoudine
2014-02-22 14:59:25 UTC (about 10 years ago)

are these things to avoid?

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote:

Am I worrying for nothing?

IMO, yes :)

There are very few cases where one would need to open an EPS with 8192dpi bitmaps or work on an image that has max resolution of over 1048576. Making a switch in Preferences for 2-3 people out of billions is a little over the top.

Alexandre

Michael Natterer
2014-02-22 18:58:21 UTC (about 10 years ago)

are these things to avoid?

On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 15:22 +0100, Marco Ciampa wrote:

Are these param fixed during compilation times?

Yes.

Could go these params into some preferences or some headers easily accessed for everyone that eventually could want to increase? Am I worrying for nothing?

I made some other part of our great code crash while experimenting with these new limits. A new preference would for one be totally over the top nerdish, and essentially be a preference for "how easy shall it be to crash gimp" :)

These are just pragmatic not-really-fixes, but the limits are a LOT less restricting now.

Regards, --Mitch