Thus spoke Marc Lehmann > Well, most distros tend to compile every optional feature they cna find > into a program. It's already not too difficult to tailor a distribution, > but nobody does that. They do make it moderately easy during installation, but the default installations include lots of things many users will never need. But that's a discussion for another list, I think. :-) > One possible reason is that it is a pain in the ass to install additional > plug-ins. Some things, like translations, must be part of the distribution > currently. Do you mean language locales? I'm not very familiar with working with multi-language issues, but I have wondered why this isn't handled by the plug-ins directly. GTK supports internationalization, right? So shouldn't the plug-ins be responsible for the language issues? Otherwise it puts a large burden on Gimp to manage something that is already (supposedly) handled at a lower level (the widget kit). Anyway, I could be way off here. Like I said, I don't know that much about internationalization. Or even if that's what you were referring to! :-) -- Michael J. Hammel | We need somebody who can work The Graphics Muse | independently and innovatively in the mjhammel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | face of unreasonable demands." http://www.graphics-muse.com Job posting at Stanford CS Department
