Comments on: Gimp 2.6 – A Backward Step?

By: Stan

Stan — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:36:23 +0000

Thanks Simon, glad I could help.

Stan

By: Simun

Simun — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:04:24 +0000

Hello Stan and Happy New Year.

I have to say I wholeheartedly agree with your comments.
Gimp is undoubtably a wonderful piece of software, but updates like the recent ones are quite scarey. OK, There are ways around many of the problems, sometimes different locations for functions and often reasons for change, but I think such changes are damaging to the widescale adoption of Gimp crucially when the documentation fails to keep pace. The large number of casual users out there just want to do simple stuff with the minimum of fuss and are not going to find it helpful when functions are moved to somewhere completely different. They will just get frustrated following a tutorial and not being able to find things.

I am used to having Dialogues on the image window menu bar and now it isn’t there. OK I have now worked out its under windows-dockable dialogues and that i can have layers automatically open each time I run GIMP but it took me a while and scared the crap out of me. I didn’t find an answer in help or the release notes I found it in your blog! So Thank You.

Simon

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:30:17 +0000

Sham

I’m really sorry but I can’t help you. I’m not sure how you managed to detach the tool option from the toolbox. Do you mean the whole tool selection area? I have also tried to drop dockable dialogues onto the bars where it says you can and it just doesn’t work. I suspect that some of these features only work in Linux as all dialogues still show in the windows taskbar when they were supposed not to any more!
I’ll have to set up a Linux system and test this theory, I should anyway.
I’m afraid this sort of thing is really annoying. It’s fine to ‘improve’ software but at least provide some help as to the new features and how to use them. As you say the help system is still for 2.4. Which, by the way I’m still using, most of the time.

Stan

By: sham

sham — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:37:32 +0000

Sir,
I am facing a problem using GIMP 2.6.2
can you please help me.
I somehow removed the tool option from the main toolbox.But i need to attach it again.But till now I did not find a way to attach.At the same time they provided a space for dragging and dropping dockable dialogue.I think the dockable dialogue should be attached in the space provided.But it is not being attached.

By: sham

sham — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:33:10 +0000

Sir,
what they have done to the GIMP tool box menu is realy horrible.First time I thought that I have messed up the settings.So I restored the default settings from the preference.When it did not come I uninstalled and installed it again.So i faced lot of harrashment.After searching in the net I came to know the proper scenario that the option is no more there.
I think they are giving user manual only of versn 2.4 in which the screen shot of tool box have file menu.

By: sede

sede — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:43:14 +0000

“When I first looked at this latest version I have to admit to having a minor panic attack when I saw the Toolbox menus gone! Checking the release notes confirmed my worst fears, it had been taken away.”

I had the same shock. I very much miss the menu in the toolbox. It had a good place, when I attached all windows together. Now there is an extra empty window to occupy the space, I don’t know why they call these changes “improvements”.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:55:47 +0000

Andy

Under the File menu in the image window go to create and the second entry should be ‘Scanner/Camera…’. If you click on that you should get a list of the devices on your PC.

Cheers

Stan

By: andylockran

andylockran — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:25:10 +0000

Stan,

How can I acquire from scanner in the new system.. I just can’t find it and it’s really bugging me.

Cheers,

Andy