On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:29:16AM -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: > On 22 August 2012 09:53, Chris Violetti <cvioletti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I decided to teach myself how to use GIMP. I downloaded 2.8 and started with > > the first beginner tutorial, GIMPLite Quickies, on gimp.org. This tutorial > > is so out of date it is unusable. "After completeing the click and drag > > motion, a little "Crop & Resize Information Dialog" (shown above also) pops > > up". Ummm, no. It doesn't. Nor could I find this dialog searching through > > the numerous menus. > > > > The copyright notice at the top of the GIMPLite Quickies tutorial webpage > > (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Lite_Quickies/) says 2004. Is it really EIGHT > > years old? For God's sake update your tutorials or remove them from the site > > so people don't waste their time. > > > > Heading to google to search for up-to-date tutorials. > > > Please, bear in mind this is a voluntary project - so while the object > information > you had as feedback is valuable, meaning "the tutorial on gimp.org is > so old as to > be unusable" is valuable, the way you write it will only resent people > and hardly > make someone go after learning all the steps needed to update that > part of the page, > and re-write it. > > That said, you are even welcome to help writing new up to date tutorials - > > Regards, > I think that the best is to always report the GIMP version the tutorial refers to. If I want, for example, know how to do "something" with GIMP version 2.4 it could be useful even today... -- Marco Ciampa +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ gimp-docs-list mailing list gimp-docs-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list
