Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> writes: > hi demad dit! > > one of my coworker tried one day to write perl stuff for gimp but > > got mad since he wasted two hours before understanding the doc was > > wrong since some stuff didn't got imported into namespace, which > > is what use is intended to do. > > please file a bug-report then so I can ask the Perl gurus to have a > look at it and to make sure we don't forget about it. done > > as far as i can see, this has nothing to do with anti-aliasing but > > the fact that gimp blindy try to force font to enforce the image > > resolution even for non scalable fonts which cannot do this by > > definition. > > hence the patch. > > your patch doesn't fix the problem since unconditionally disabling > non-scalable fonts is not an option. i won't claim the reverse: the real fix won't be as easy. but this prevents users to get tons of error messages when XFree86 detect the screen resolution instead of using default 72x72, or when the user set the X11 resolition or the gimp image resolution... > > > Could you please check Bugzilla for existing bug-reports > > > regarding your problems and attach your patches to these reports > > > or open new bug-reports. Thanks a lot. > > > > humm. once the bug is spotten and a fix is availlable, i see no > > point to use such db but it's just my 2 cents. > > well, you won't get anything changed in The GIMP if you refuse to > use Bugzilla. ok, ok, done even if i dislike web like interfaces. > It helps us a lot and we won't be able to handle the amount of > bug-reports we receive without a bug-tracking system. i can buy that even if my experience is that 90% of bugs tracked by such system belong to: - non bugs - help request - assigned to random modules - doesn't provides any useful information beside "XYZ sucks", sometimes with the useful reply-adress <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > You seem to forget that you ask for changes in the stable GIMP > tree. i can wait for a better fix in gimp-1.3.x. i would prefer gimp-1.2.x being fixed if feasable. > We can't do such changes without reviewing them extensively. that's understandable. > Fixes tend to break stuff that used to work. It already happended > often enough. especially on critical packages such as kernel and the like :-( > We will certainly not accept any patches for 1.2 without them being > submitted to Bugzilla. ok, i followed your will. > Salut, Sven kenavo :-) -- "ca fait pas "homme" d'aller voir le medecin" (gc)
