Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.6 french mac manual

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:00 PM, marianne ganeau wrote:
> ... First : it's almost impossible to join you to report a problem or a bug. I
> can understand that you are volunteers faced with many requests but it
> doesn't explain or excuse nothing

Way to start a conversation, Pierre.

> others projects it was my philosophy. Since in the mailing lists you can't
> find absolultely nothing because there is no mecanism of search in thousands
> and thousands and thousands of pages !

Yes, GNOME infrastracture doesn't provide us a search option. Archived
copy of the list at gmane does, though:

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gimp.devel

Perhaps we should specifically link to it from
http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html. Would it help?

> My prinicipal problems : I could download the GIMP 2.6 french Mac manual...
> But after downloading the .zip and opening it, I installed the package

Frankly, I'm surprised you could download it, because I couldn't. The
download never finishes although Chrome reports it's 100% done. And I
did try different mirrors. So this could be a case of corrupt ZIP
file.

> The other problem I have with Gimp: The ufraw which is integrated in 2.6
> GIMP (my operating system is Mac OS 10.4.11) cann't read correctly the raws
> of my camera. So, I should need to download the ufraw 0.19.2 which knows
> this camera... I could download it but I obtain a folder and I don't know how
> install it in Gimp and... and one more time, impossible to find a help in any
> part.

There are no Mac builds of UFRaw to the best of my knowledge. Newer
version of UFRaw is part of GIMP 2.8 builds for Mac as I was given to
understand, but it probably won't work on your older Mac OS X version.
I don't see a simple solution for you.

Perhaps we could make use of the access to virtual machines running
various versions of OS X and build 2.8 for older OS X.

Alexandre

On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:00 PM, marianne ganeau
<marianne ganeau wanadoo fr> wrote:
> ... First : it's almost impossible to join you to report a problem or a bug. I
> can understand that you are volunteers faced with many requests but it
> doesn't explain or excuse nothing because if you are responsible of a
> project you have to be in touch with your users. When I was volunteers for
> others projects it was my philosophy. Since in the mailing lists you can't
> find absolultely nothing because there is no mecanism of search in thousands
> and thousands and thousands of pages !
> Second : I have several problems with Gimp and I could not find nothing in
> the lists or other bugs pages : hopeless.
> My prinicipal problems : I could download the GIMP 2.6 french Mac manual...
> But after downloading the .zip and opening it, I installed the package and
> the result of this installation on my hard disk is only another << package >>
> which make... another installation but all ends with an << error >> in this
> second installation... I tried ten times and each ended with the same result.
> And impossible to find an explanation in the lists or bug reports : am I
> alone to have this problem ????
> The other problem I have with Gimp: The ufraw which is integrated in 2.6
> GIMP (my operating system is Mac OS 10.4.11) cann't read correctly the raws
> of my camera. So, I should need to download the ufraw 0.19.2 which knows
> this camera... I could download it but I obtain a folder and I don't know how
> install it in Gimp and... and one more time, impossible to find a help in any
> part.
> Sure, I'm not a good computerist and perhaps I'm not able to work with free
> softwares, but I was able to work with my macs from approximatively 30 years
> and I could do maintenance and repairs for ten computers in my job. So I'm
> not so stupid but I can need for help !!! and I don't find where is the help
> in your world and I'm sorry because the free softwares are a fantastic idea
> but which would require some solidarity. I did'nt find it here.
> Perhaps can you explain to me ?
> Best regards,
> Pierre Jacquin.
>
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