You really should try out gimp 2.4, it's been out since October last year and has vast improvements over 2.2 (2.4.5 is the current minor version). There both rectangular and elliptical selections can be resized (while they're "fresh", i.e. as long as no other tool is used/selection has been put on top of them which would "finalize" the selection, i.e. make a bitmap out of it).
I don't think there's a way to resize and rotate in one go, but I just did the following and it went quite well: Select what you want to resize/rotate, cut and paste it (so it becomes floating), move one corner to the desired location, select the rotate tool, move the rotation center on top of that corner, drag the second corner to its designated location (it won't resize now, but have the correct angle), use the resize tool, drag the second corner to its location. This will move the first one a bit, but you can drag it back again.
As for printing, gimp 2.4 has a much easier to use print plugin than gimp-print/gutenprint which where used with 2.2. You still can install and use the gutenprint-plugin if you need the level of configuration it offers.
Resizable selections. Yes, they can be resized, but every help says "... so difficult that it is easier just to try to get it right in the first attempt" for a very good reason. Why cannot I grab the corners?
You should have tried the current version (and not trusted "every help" whatever that is): You can do just that: Choose the rectangle select tool, select something, grab one of its corners or edges and resize it.
Accurate and easy rotated rectangles (I cannot just drag the corners where I want them, not to mention that there is no "real" rectangle).
Just select what you want rotated (see above), choose the rotate tool, then just click somewhere inside the image and rotate it. Difficult?
Printing. It just does not work. Or maybe it does, but after 15 minutes I gave up.
Well it does work over here. Care to be more specific?
Unfortunately for those who need their fix of Photoshop UI, gimpshop hasn't been maintained for a long time. If you have specific ideas how to improve GIMP's UI (other than "do it like PS"), I'm sure the guys at the GIMP UI brainstorm would like to hear about it.
Fact is also that nearly every distro (with pre-built kernels) doesn't ship all modules. There are reasons why a) it's been made configurable what modules shall be built and b) Fedora doesn't build and ship every module available from upstream. Building these modules using the kernel-{,smp-}devel package's headers and Makefile shouldn't be too hard (left as an exercise to the reader). But that's completely irrelevant because you can build the binaries as Fedora shipped them using the sources Fedora provides ("rpm --rebuild kernel-...src.rpm"), ergo there's no GPL violation.
Thirdly even after building your own entire kernel from the sources that redhat provides, you end up with modules that have not been processed the same as what they ship in binary form.
You get the exact source that is used to build the binary. The (easily circumvented) automatism in the spec file which added your login name to the kernel version to distinguish "official" Fedora built from "home-brewn" kernels has since been replaced by this comment:
# Polite request for people who spin their own kernel rpms: # please modify the "release" field in a way that identifies # that the kernel isn't the stock distribution kernel, for example by # adding some text to the end of the version number.
To build modules for a packaged kernel, you need the corresponding kernel-devel (kernel-smp-devel,...) package installed which contains the needed headers and Makefiles. The times when you needed the complete source to do that are long gone.
To support external repositories in the installer an "Everything" option makes less and less sense (e.g. you don't really want all Fedora Extras packages). To emulate the old "Everything" option, you can install a base system and install the missing parts with this command afterwards:
Upstream glibc removed linuxthreads support meaning it will eventually vanish from all distributions, as soon as they upgrade to a current glibc version. Funny how proprietary vendors for once can also be victims of vendor lock-in... Why a license manager is implemented as threaded software in the first place is beyond me.
Even SAP R/3 for Linux is only supported on certain HW-configurations and under RH6.1 EE.
Not really, take a look at www.sap.com/linux (follow the link to the news archive) and you'll see that it is supported for all releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as e.g. SLES.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat in the SAP LinuxLab.
The only thing the SANE protocol is missing is a means to transmit the IR channel of the scanned image with the image. This of course leaves some software to be done that uses that information, i.e. to remove the specks and dust.
Currently available Nikon and Canon scanners do 4000ppi which result in roughly 21MP, I just googled a bit and found that some Fujis that do 5000ppi (33MP) and Minoltas that do 5400ppi (39MP).
Wrong (even though IANAL). Even if all the proprietary/withheld/non Open Source differences between the shareware and the GPL version were done by the author, he doesn't have permission by the contributors to release their code under a licence other than the GPL and thus is in breach of the licence over the code they gave to him -- unless they assign copyright or explicitely give him permission to do that.
willywutang is hanging out on a heavily forested island that's really narrow: it's a narrow strip of land that's ten miles long. let's label one end of the strip A, and the other end B. a fire has started at A, and the fire is moving toward B at the rate of 1 mph. at the same time, there's a 2 mph wind blowing in the direction from A toward B. what can willywu do to save himself from burning to death?! assume that willywu can't swim and there are no boats, jetcopters, teleportation devices, etc.. (if he does nothing, willywu will be toast after at most 10 hours, since 10 miles / 1 mph = 10 hours)
It's easy:
willywutang grabs a burning log from the fire, runs to let's say the middle of the island, sets fire to the wood there, watches the wood turn into ashes (with the fire moving towards B) and when the fire coming from A would reach him, he can easily retreat to the no longer burning ashes.
... A good number of the (very few) times I've had to hit the reset button, perl was the cause.
then:
... it's the only way to get anything done on NT...
Then your NT kernel is coded in perl, or what? If your machine drops, the kernel is guilty (or you did some nasty lowlevel stuff). If NT is uncapable of running perl without crashing then I'm very sorry for it.
If you talk about "resource hog/pig" in conjunction with "NT" and "perl", guess to which this is attributed (grammar?)...
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It seems the maps aren't maintained in the wiki anymore, but rather here: http://fedoraproject.org/maps/
You really should try out gimp 2.4, it's been out since October last year and has vast improvements over 2.2 (2.4.5 is the current minor version). There both rectangular and elliptical selections can be resized (while they're "fresh", i.e. as long as no other tool is used/selection has been put on top of them which would "finalize" the selection, i.e. make a bitmap out of it).
I don't think there's a way to resize and rotate in one go, but I just did the following and it went quite well: Select what you want to resize/rotate, cut and paste it (so it becomes floating), move one corner to the desired location, select the rotate tool, move the rotation center on top of that corner, drag the second corner to its designated location (it won't resize now, but have the correct angle), use the resize tool, drag the second corner to its location. This will move the first one a bit, but you can drag it back again.
As for printing, gimp 2.4 has a much easier to use print plugin than gimp-print/gutenprint which where used with 2.2. You still can install and use the gutenprint-plugin if you need the level of configuration it offers.
Unfortunately for those who need their fix of Photoshop UI, gimpshop hasn't been maintained for a long time. If you have specific ideas how to improve GIMP's UI (other than "do it like PS"), I'm sure the guys at the GIMP UI brainstorm would like to hear about it.
Fact is also that nearly every distro (with pre-built kernels) doesn't ship all modules. There are reasons why a) it's been made configurable what modules shall be built and b) Fedora doesn't build and ship every module available from upstream. Building these modules using the kernel-{,smp-}devel package's headers and Makefile shouldn't be too hard (left as an exercise to the reader). But that's completely irrelevant because you can build the binaries as Fedora shipped them using the sources Fedora provides ("rpm --rebuild kernel-...src.rpm"), ergo there's no GPL violation.
Can you back this up somehow?You get the exact source that is used to build the binary. The (easily circumvented) automatism in the spec file which added your login name to the kernel version to distinguish "official" Fedora built from "home-brewn" kernels has since been replaced by this comment:
To build modules for a packaged kernel, you need the corresponding kernel-devel (kernel-smp-devel,
To support external repositories in the installer an "Everything" option makes less and less sense (e.g. you don't really want all Fedora Extras packages). To emulate the old "Everything" option, you can install a base system and install the missing parts with this command afterwards:
yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=core --enablerepo=updates install \*
Upstream glibc removed linuxthreads support meaning it will eventually vanish from all distributions, as soon as they upgrade to a current glibc version. Funny how proprietary vendors for once can also be victims of vendor lock-in... Why a license manager is implemented as threaded software in the first place is beyond me.
Not really, take a look at www.sap.com/linux (follow the link to the news archive) and you'll see that it is supported for all releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as e.g. SLES.
Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat in the SAP LinuxLab.
Indeed?
The only thing the SANE protocol is missing is a means to transmit the IR channel of the scanned image with the image. This of course leaves some software to be done that uses that information, i.e. to remove the specks and dust.
Currently available Nikon and Canon scanners do 4000ppi which result in roughly 21MP, I just googled a bit and found that some Fujis that do 5000ppi (33MP) and Minoltas that do 5400ppi (39MP).
Wrong (even though IANAL). Even if all the proprietary/withheld/non Open Source differences between the shareware and the GPL version were done by the author, he doesn't have permission by the contributors to release their code under a licence other than the GPL and thus is in breach of the licence over the code they gave to him -- unless they assign copyright or explicitely give him permission to do that.
Contrary to your opinion, the GPL not only governs modification but also redistribution of code.
If you give me a piece of GPLed code, you have to give me the source also or make it accessible to me as specified in the GPL -- modified or not.
Do. Not. Feed. The. Troll.
... A good number of the (very few) times I've had to hit the reset button, perl was the cause.
...
then:
... it's the only way to get anything done on NT
Then your NT kernel is coded in perl, or what? If your machine drops, the kernel is guilty (or you did some nasty lowlevel stuff). If NT is uncapable of running perl without crashing then I'm very sorry for it.
If you talk about "resource hog/pig" in conjunction with "NT" and "perl", guess to which this is attributed (grammar?)...
Nils
1 MB more in the games tarball! If that's not worth the download, what then?
I just finished downloading the tarballs (from my mirror) and in case not all mirrors have them already, you might want to check out ftp://rhlx01.rz.fht-esslingen.d e/pub/gnome-1.0-pre/ or http://rhlx01.rz.fht-esslingen .de/pub/gnome-1.0-pre/, especially if you're from Europe.
Nils