hi,

i heard that gimp-2.2pre would be out and threw together some new tutorials to show off a few of the new things. http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/

a preview of only a few of the new gimp previews (thanks to david odin): http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/previews/

you can configure your toolbox now: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/toolbox/

also, you can drop your own splash screen image in now: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/splash

and for the gimp power-users out there, better gap tutorials: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/gap/
including one from the gap author, wolfgang hofer: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/gap/move_path

the gtk file selector is really really slow to open an image -- it is not gimp, it is gtk. now you have been warned ....

enjoy! carol

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 01:46:09PM +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Carol Spears wrote:

also, you can drop your own splash screen image in now: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp/2.1/splash

I thought you could already set your own custom splash screen by replacing the existing splash screen graphic? What is different about how it is done now?

yes, because gimp can be built yourself on your own computer, you have always had the ability to change any of the graphics it uses. not just the splash screen but also the icons the widgets use and images that appear in the message dialogs.

however, gimp-2.1 or gimp-2.2pre as we are calling it now has this ability to use user splash screens. you put your image into your user directory and name it gimp-splash.png (~/.gimp-2.2/gimp-splash.png) and the gimp will find it.

so you dont even need to build your own lately.

carol

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:25:00AM -0800, Gezim Hoxha wrote:

Thanks for taking the time to do this Carol, I really appreciate it :)
--- Carol Spears wrote:

well, thanks for the thanks. i am not so good with that, it seems.

in truth, however, these handful of tutorials were nothing to produce compared to the efforts of the developers who have been writing this thing for so many years.

in the gimp source, there is a file called the Changelog. this file tells who should really be thanked. those people, smart and industrious, have been working diligently to compete with well paid programmers and with to compete on unforgiving to volunteer operating systems -- for whatever personal reasons they have.

i am only sorry that i do not have more knowledge and ability to show off more of their efforts.

these guys handle their public directly. i am always wanting to suggest that people who want gimp to run like other software -- that they go see how far their opinions get and who answers their emails and such from these other apps pampered programmers. my theory is that they would not get very far through the corporate email and what-have you.

anyways, not enough thanks are given to these people (rude and arrogant as they can seem and well, actually be at times) who are writing this stuff. and, i am not real certain how to thank them; staying out of their way only goes so far for this ....

carol