On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:36:53PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > > also, the tooltips are popping up some freaking huge tool tips. it is > the long help that is in the script-fu? i think it was some of the > third party scripts i have installed that were doing this -- i did not > find it at all helpful. > > is GIMP showing the help blurb or the about blurb from the scripts? > http://carol.gimp.org/bikeshed/images/screenshot-2006-06-21.png fitting a whole tutorial into that area does not really seem as if it was the most helpful thing.... let me apologize to everyone whose little freesoftware project i have been involved in for how many years is it now? i really had to send mail out to say that $3000 was not worth it for a nice girl to get involved in something like how this project worked. if i am following the logic that i have received locally, i was one of the first people to have become successful with something like GIMP. $3000 would not have kept me from having real life problems like i did and do. it would have been the very very wrong thing to just let other girls or nice people fall into the same trap. it seems like california has all of the problems michigan did, just with gender removed. it is more wrong to use and discard people than it is to have been nice and unable to live up to those expectations. also, sorry if actually USING the software makes it difficult to report bugs with that language everyone insists on. the fact that i am using it and that i was successful with the project and the people when i had my life and stuff really ought to count for something. mostly i am sorry that this world does not allow a girl to be successful at something without spending the next few years trying to and maybe succeeding in destroying her. do you know what has not been in my life now since may of 2003? love. if there is no love in a life or in a project it is just going to suck for everyone. everywhere around me, love is bought and sold and traded or only used to make families. let me be somewhere where there is some love and maybe even my stuff and then feel free to complain if i am not being nice. no outlet for when there is a problem. no love. no acknowledgement. and the biggest problem is this. it really looks like a bunch of mean minded little males or malelike females who keep a calendar and know when to start being unreasonable. and there. this email is perhaps the best example of what is wrong when you fit a whole tutorial into what should be a small space. you can see from the screenshot that there are some real problems with this new thing. if i am to consider that the developers who work with this project are human beings and have real life issues that need consideration and also that whatever i expect from them is just my own idea and i should not actually expect anything -- when does that start from those same people back to me? in closing, one of the things that i really really remember from when everything started to go so badly and wrong is something that scizzo said. i am paraphrasing now: "can we work next time as a team?" i never ever wanted to be alone working on this stuff. never ever did i ever think that i could accomplish anything alone. who do i thank? carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
