On 4 Apr 2003, at 2:41, Ernst Lippe wrote: > On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 02:00:22 +0200 > Branko Collin <collin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > What do the two different GimpPreviews do? If they are so alike, why > > are there two different versions? Please explain it to me as if I > > did not understand programming at all (which I don't, so it will be > > very easy for me to play my part :-)). > > There is a large difference. The GimpPreview in the GIMP is used > internally, and is not avalaible to plug-ins (I you are really > as naive as you pretend, I should probably should have called > the plug-ins "filters"). My preview is intended for plug-ins > and contains severeal bells-and-whistles, that might be usefull > for plug-ins. But otherwise they have the same function? Is it useful to have two previews that do the same? > > As an aside: on your intropage, you end half of the sentences > > without and the other half with full-stops. > > I hope you mean the initial table of contents (I already started > looking at the "Introduction" page, but that one looked mostly OK). I think that's what I meant, but I was too lazy to look it up. The page that has a list of contents (that are links). > That is just intended as some help to future software archeologists so > that they can determine in which order these pages were written :) But > I will immediately admit that my punctiation is horrible. That is not why I told you this: in a previous mail, you asked us to look at spelling mistakes and such (you may not have used the actual phrase 'spelling mistakes'). > BTW, I have the feeling that most americans would not use the > term "full-stop". So I suspect, that you originate from that > part of the world that thinks that "Europe" and "the continent" > as synonyms. The e-mail domains we use are owned by the same company. You may draw your conclusions from that fact. :-) -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx
