Hi, Federico Mena Quintero <federico@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think the bigger problem is that the first thing you see when you > start up the GÏMP for the first time is a big ugly BRIGHT ORANGE > window. I like it very much, but of course I'm a little biased here. > That window, aside from being prettified, should tell you something > like > > The GIMP needs to install some configuration files for you > before it can be run for the first time. Click on "continue" > to perform the GIMP user installation or "cancel" to exit. > > The GIMP is free software, is distributed under the GNU > General Public License, and comes with absolutely no warranty. > Please click on the "license" button to get more information. good point, will go into 1.4. > > 2. The current second dialog box shows a full list of files and directories > > that most users will never care about at first. Maybe we should add an > > indication that knowing all about this is not necessary to use Gimp? > > This dialog is completely unnecessary. As a user, I don't care where > the GIMP installs its ~/.foo. I just want to be able to run the > program. > > Also, it is bad that you have to know that ~/.gimp exists and that you > may need to hand-tweak the stuff in there. Everything should be > configurable through a nice graphical interface; if you need to > install third-party plug-ins or scripts or gradients then the GIMP > should have an "install plug-in" command. This command can simply > copy a binary into your ~/.gimp/plug-ins. No, some people want to be able to hand-tweak stuff using an editor. That's why we have user-readable config files. Apart from that everything important is indeed configurable through the prefs. But I have to admit that it's probably a bit too much information for a user installation dialog. But I like the way we managed to integrate all the info from the 1.0 installation dialog into this page on the new one ;-) > Completely agreed. This looks like a case of "we are too lazy to > think of how our system calls may fail, so we'll run a shell script > and have the user figure it out". Yes we are too lazy and are waiting for patches. > N.B. I just erased my ~/.gimp-1.2 and re-ran it. I got > > cp /etc/gimp/1.2/gtkrc_user /home/federico/.gimp-1.2/gtkrc > cp: /etc/gimp/1.2/gtkrc_user: No such file or directory > > (because I have /etc/gimp/1.2/gtkrc instead of gtkrc_user). Then you or more likely the packager of your gimp version did something wrong since the file $prefix/gimp/1.2/gtkrc_user should exist. > > 5. The resolution thing is OK. > > Mostly. It would be better if it were something like > > The GIMP needs to know the resolution of your monitor so that > images will be displayed at the proper size. > > [X] Use the resolution suggested by the system (75x75 dots per inch). > > [ ] Use the resolution I specify: > > Horizontal resolution: [____] [pixels per parsec] > Vertical resolution: [____] > > [ ] Let me determine my monitor resolution interactively. I'm confused. That's how the dialog looks like. > The first option should be selected by default. These days most smart > X servers are able to use information obtained from the monitor at > boot-up or at some other time. This is of course the Right(tm) value > unless the user is doing something fantastically stupid. I have not yet seen one X-Server giving a close to correct value here unless you manually tell it the correct value on start-up. Salut, Sven
