Hi, "Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I had an Horrible Experience (tm) regarding this yesterday. > > I was making a title in Gimp 1.3.23, and was using 140pt font. > Suddenly, by accident I flipped the mouse wheel over the "unit" > listbox ..it changed from PT to IN .... hell came over on my desktop. > before I could do much, the keyboard froze as the GIMP tried to > allocate more memory than avaliable in the whole city - I managed to > xkill the gimp, but the X server remained frozen. I had to remote > login and kill the X process. > > Since this the whole issue is not strictly related to activate on > focus, but on memory consumption by the Text plugin, Sven, do you > think it would be feasible to put a warning on the font-size > selectors, just as there are when one tries to create an image too > large? This is completely unrelated to the discussion, so please keep it out of it. There's a bug report about it already and it will be taken care of before 2.0. Sven
