Re: [Gimp-user] UI drag and drop issues prevent layer reorder or dialog tab reorder

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de> wrote:
> On 19.01.2014 03:55, Jehan Pagès wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Jernej Simončič
> > <jernej|s-gmane eternallybored org> wrote:
>
> > > Perhaps we'll have to add a warning on the download page that Kaspersky
> > > breaks GIMP, and users should avoid it. It worked in the past...
> >
> > I guess that makes sense. The message should be well worded, and as
> > neutral as possible though. I am not for putting a blame on anyone.
> > And it is not said that there is not something that we could do to
> > work around the issue too.
>
> Preferably, we should contrast this warning with an example of FLOSS
> doing better, and there could just be such a chance.
>
> Camstudio, a screen recording software, is released under the GNU GPL
> and has been reported to cause the same problems - someone already
> reported the issue to them:
>
> http://camstudio.org/forum/discussion/1117/cannot-add-layer-to-layer-group-while-using-camstudio-2-6/p1
>
> But Terry Britton states that, while being the maintainer of Camstudio,
> he is not a programmer (camstudio.org, A Plea For Help ...), and so the
> very specific inquiry in that forum post (does camstudio do anything to
> that list of libraries) was probably misleading. There seem to be some
> programmers around there, though.
>
> So if we follow up on that post and point out that this is still an
> issue, we might get some nice research going on there.

You are right. I am mostly homeless and on the road these days though,
and likely for the next 5 months or so. So my time is very limited.
Thus I'll let other programmers look into this, unless the problem is
still there when I'll settle again later. :-)

Jehan

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> Regards,
> Michael
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