Celebrating 10 years of GIMP, we will have a few drinks next Wednesday, the 30th of November, in the rooms of the CCC Berlin. There’s even another 10th birthday to celebrate at the very same occasion.
Yes, we kind of promised a larger party but unfortunately noone found time to organize such an event. I am [...]
Just my 2 cents to the iPod discussion on p.g.o: I don’t understand the hype and I think it’s just that, a hype. None of the players in the iPod family is an outstanding product and for almost everyone’s needs there’s a better product available for less money. You might think that an iPod is [...]
Every once in a while I have a need for hardware accelerated 3D. While it works on my desktop PC at home and at work, I still haven’t got it to work on my notebook (an IBM T23 using a S3 SuperSavage IX/C graphics card). Today I gave it another try but failed again. [...]
Nice summary of a recent discussion on the GIMP Developer mailing-list over at another transient window. I agree with pippin that GIMP is ready for gradual replacement of the code with GEGL based bits. At least as soon as we have 2.4 out of the door. Perhaps we can have GEGL ready by then.
With the help of sysprof, a stopwatch and some debugging output, I managed to cut down startup time of GIMP by about 20%. That’s not much, but given that startup had already been optimized before, it’s not that bad. Some of these optimizations are in GIMP 2.3.5 already, some have been done after the release.
The [...]
Federico found g_utf8_offset_to_pointer() showing up in profiles. I remembered that we copied some of the UTF-8 code for
Last night I participated in the foundation of Open Usability, a non-profit association that is supposed to be registered soon, then becoming the Open Usability e.V. (see Wikipedia for the meaning of e.V.). The goal is to support efforts to improve usability of Open Source software. The first event organized by members of the [...]