On 2002-04-11 at 1834.02 +0200, Rapha?l Quinet typed this mail: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:01:03 -0400, "Carol Spears" <cspears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2002-04-11 at 1741.53 +0200, Sven Neumann typed this mail: > > > nothing. The bad thing is to have multiple places to look for plug-ins. > > > > > i seem to remember from the discussion of the registry from this list > > (way back when) that the registry works like it does and will not be > > changed. > > I hope that it will be updated someday... Besides the problems > described in the previous mails (how to update a plug-in when the > original author is gone), it would be very nice to add a field that > would tell if a plug-in has been included in the standard distribution > of the GIMP (and if yes, in which versions) or in the Windows version, > which includes some additional plug-ins. > > > the last time i tried to discuss the registry with the eh, registry > > owner, he pretty much told me to talk to you. > > > > my site is getting more and more traffic. i have a good skeleton of a > > passwd system. i have tried to make my site more user oriented. and i > > will always be willing to talk to a user about plug-ins. > > > > so far, i have been pretty good about not having things on my site that > > are already included in the GIMP. from a user point of view, this is a > > frustrating thing about www.gimp.org and registry.gimp.org. > > Then by all means, DO REPORT THIS AS A BUG IN BUGZILLA! Sorry for > shouting, but if there is something wrong on www.gimp.org, this should > be reported as a bug. the very moment i think i can articulate my ideas well enough to file bugreports, i will do it. please do not hold your breath though .... > I will not be able to re-design the complete > site (AFAIK, you should be working on that ;-)) but I do check Bugzilla > frequently and I try to fix all the bugs related to www.gimp.org as > soon as possible. So if there is a page that contains outdated or > incorrect information, please submit a bug report and I will take care > of it. I am trying to keep the site alive until a new www.gimp.org can > be put online... I hope that it will be ready soon. > i spent many many fruitless hours trying to get an xsl to obey a css file. i am to the point where i am going to type the samples in from my books to prove once and for all that it doesn't work. meanwhile, i am continueing with what i thought my job would be. and that is to gather useful and concise GIMP information, and beg for tutorials and how-tos from anyone i can .... the people who are in charge of bugzilla are very very mindful of what is going on there. thank you very very much!! all the more reason to be mindful of what goes there .... > > Yes, this is of course very good from your point of view, but what about > the users? If the information about the GIMP is scattered on many sites, > that will not help anybody. If your site can be a good replacement for > www.gimp.org, then let's kill the old site, change the hostname and make > sure that the new www.gimp.org can be the new reference site for the > GIMP. But if this is not the case, then I am not sure that it helps the > users in the long run. > > If everybody is complaining that the old site is bad but is not doing > anything to improve it, then we will not go very far... > sorry, i love the old site. this is the first time i have ever complained about it. and i didn't mean to. when i asked last summer about updating the current site, i was given a very short list of names of people who could do that. since no one on that short list would talk to me, i started gathering things for the new site. i realize that things have changed since then, but it is hard to stop what i was doing. a few months ago, someone was bored and willing to change some things around at the current site. i was not ready at this time. since then i have gathered brushes and other resources that are not included with GIMP already and put them on my site. i am almost ready with brushes. give me a chance to go over my collection one more time and imo the whole lot of brushes that are there can be replaced with my collection. perhaps when bex comes back, she can file a few bug reports for me .... carol
