timecop@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I bet that gave you a warm and fuzzy feeling to write a response like > that. If instead you (or others) focused on the issues rather than "bad > language" things would have been a lot better. If you hadn't put them under a pile of fucks and shits then maybe I would have been able to see them. I'm not going to reiterate what has been said already about the developers trying their best, the only thing I'd like to add is that perhaps you should think about other peoples opinions and preferences as well. Just because you don't use tear-off menus doesn't mean nobody does, and that they are therefor worthless. And in the same fashion, you may not like the tree structure of the Preferences box, other people (like me) think it's nice. You're not the only gimp user you know. Then, there's no need to command the gimp developers. You didn't pay for the software, and the license clearly states that there is no warranty for fitness for any particular purpose. If you don't like it, you can always use another program. I imagine Photoshop does have a nice interface. And if you don't like MS then you can run it on a Mac. Buying Photoshop has the additional advantage that you can complain about the product with Adobe and, given the fact that you paid for it, expect them to add the features you want to add. Free Software doesn't work that way. Lastly, it would be nice if you built some sort of argument around your opinions, instead of stating them as fact (I'm talking, amongst others, about the comment you made about GNOME being an "obsolete desktop environment". I'm not saying it isn't, I just wouldn't know why, and I expect some arguments to go with such a statement). > This is almost same as flaming a very reasonable email because of "bad > spelling". Instead, you should have just written that response in a text > file, laughed about it, and then go back to whatever you do for a living. I realise that this is not a humour list and as such my post was off-topic. Also, people may not like my sense of humour, in which case the message was useless to them. If I offended or annoyed anyone with my mail please accept my apologies. However, I don't think that using foul language and an angry, demanding tone is comparable to bad spelling. Spelling correctly is pretty difficult, especially for people for whom English is not a first language (and I even know some English people who make mistakes rather often). People spelling badly try to do it correctly though, and they make mistakes simply because they don't know how to do it correctly. Your subsequent post has proven that you are quite capable of writing in a more friendly and polite manner, and as such I think that you should do so. I don't believe that you really are an evil person, and many of your statements are valid. But as Sven said before, putting them like that and expecting people to read around the insults and give you an answer to your question would be to expect others to be very much more professional in their writing than you are in yours, and I don't think that that is a very reasonable expectation. Lourens
