april 13 1997 | home | news | about this site | links
Why don't any of these files work?
They do work, but they're mainly for developers right now. If you are not a developer or do not know how to compile and do basic troubleshooting, don't use GIMP 0.99.x. If you do have a question and you are a developer, a good place to start would be the gimp-developers mailing list.
Why create a site for GIMP news?
Well, mainly because of the excitement that's starting to build around the soon-to-be-released GIMP 1.0. I don't mean to encourage people to use a developer's version if they're not ready (and believe me, I can't help people with problems compiling, etc.), but I think it'll be interesting to collect bits of GIMP info floating around and stick it where everyone can find it.
I love the mailing lists, but not everyone signs up there. I love IRC but not all the info on IRC gets shared with the mailing list. I love browsing around and finding people whom I've never heard of doing excellend GIMP work. What I aim to do is put all these diverse things in one place.
I'm also going to be doing new tutorials and other GIMP documentation projects. I hope to have enough time to work on all theses different projects and also keep up a good front in real life too. :)
How can I give you information for this site?
The easiest way is to email me your news and I'll put it up on my page and post it to gimp-announce. If you post it to any of the gimp-{announce,developer,user} lists I'll probably find it as well, although possibly not as quick.
Conventions used on this site
| Bold Blue | This denotes a headline. |
| Italic | Used to refer to the literal name of a program, such as emboss. |
| Constant Bold |
Used to refer to a word that should be typed verbatim at the command line,
such as this: $ uname -a |
| Constant Italic |
Used to refer to a user-defined value to be typed at the command line, such
as this: $ ldd PLUGIN |
| Constant Width | This denotes direct quotation. When used in an indented paragraph, indicates a block of quotation. Also used to represent verbatim text text output by a command or excerpted from a file. |
To be honest, I'll mostly be using the headlines and quotes, but I thought I'd throw in the other bits to round out the table.
