Comments on: You’re a Mean One, Mr. GIMP http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/09/gimp-windows-crashes-on-new-file/ free software, free culture, free association Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:41:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/09/gimp-windows-crashes-on-new-file/#comment-656 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 01:52:57 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/09/gimp-windows-crashes-on-new-file/#comment-656 Hi, Michael. Thanks for your comment -- I think you're right on the money. To get the GIMP, I started from gimp.org/windows which points to <a href="http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/</a> (gimp-win.sf.net redirects there). The original install was simple and painless. I have Gaim and didn't even think of it as a related application. It seems like such a "small" app that I wouldn't have given much thought to its own graphical underpinnings and that it might share libraries. I can't remember the chronology of when I installed the two applications, but a conflict sounds plausible based on that bug report. Shared libraries and reuse are good things, of course, but with larger hard drives I don't object to private copies of libraries. Of course, now I know better about what to look for in resolving sharing problems. It's all a matter of perspective. (Panicked newbieness versus calmer experience.) Do you work on the GIMP? I hope I didn't sound overly negative in my post. I really think it's a fantastic application and am grateful for all the work that people are putting in to it. I'm trying to document my struggles with learning this stuff while at the same time hopefully not coming across as too much of a sniveling ingrate. :-) Hi, Michael. Thanks for your comment — I think you’re right on the money.

To get the GIMP, I started from gimp.org/windows which points to http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ (gimp-win.sf.net redirects there). The original install was simple and painless.

I have Gaim and didn’t even think of it as a related application. It seems like such a “small” app that I wouldn’t have given much thought to its own graphical underpinnings and that it might share libraries. I can’t remember the chronology of when I installed the two applications, but a conflict sounds plausible based on that bug report.

Shared libraries and reuse are good things, of course, but with larger hard drives I don’t object to private copies of libraries. Of course, now I know better about what to look for in resolving sharing problems. It’s all a matter of perspective. (Panicked newbieness versus calmer experience.)

Do you work on the GIMP? I hope I didn’t sound overly negative in my post. I really think it’s a fantastic application and am grateful for all the work that people are putting in to it. I’m trying to document my struggles with learning this stuff while at the same time hopefully not coming across as too much of a sniveling ingrate. :-)

]]> by: Michael Schumacher http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/09/gimp-windows-crashes-on-new-file/#comment-655 Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:47:42 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2006/12/09/gimp-windows-crashes-on-new-file/#comment-655 Reading this post makes me wonder where you did get GIMP - http://gimp-win.sf.net or somewhere else? Everything you need is available as an installer there, and the site is linked from http://www.gimp.org/windows/. The description sounds like you got hit by bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314529 Do you have Gaim installed? More recent versions (used for the development builds) of the GIMP installer include GTK+ and Glib and install a private copy - IMO an unfortunate development, but it seems to be impossible to guarantee that one shared install does work with all gtk+-based apps on one system. Reading this post makes me wonder where you did get GIMP - http://gimp-win.sf.net or somewhere else? Everything you need is available as an installer there, and the site is linked from http://www.gimp.org/windows/.

The description sounds like you got hit by bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314529
Do you have Gaim installed?

More recent versions (used for the development builds) of the GIMP installer include GTK+ and Glib and install a private copy - IMO an unfortunate development, but it seems to be impossible to guarantee that one shared install does work with all gtk+-based apps on one system.

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