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

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion mpc com br>]

Hi marianne -

While some of your concerns could be more carefully addressed, please
note that GIMP 2.6 has been discontinued almost 2 years ago. The
current stable option of GIMP is 2.8 - and we have new people
(volunteers as you said)  actively working on the actual GIMP program
release for the Mac. The manual is a separate, huge, hybrid software
and documentation project and I think it had not been tackled by the
Mac folks in recent months or years.

Maybe your message could spark address in a fresh and working manual
release for Mac if there is none at the moment - but I can't see as
writing it in a hostile tone as you had just done could make anyone
more interested in working on that in their free time.

  js
 -><-

On 1 March 2014 11:00, 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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