On 28 Nov 09 15:38 Norman Silverstone said:

To my disappointment, the button to switch the tip on and off is no longer in the tip window. What do I need to do to get the tip to appear each time I activate GIMP, please. I am using GIMP 2.6.7 and Ubuntu 9.10.

You are not alone.

The same massively retrograde step was taken in the Windows implementation too!

Greg Chapman http://www.gregtutor.plus.com
Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 16:35 +0000, Greg Chapman wrote:

On 28 Nov 09 15:38 Norman Silverstone said:

To my disappointment, the button to switch the tip on and off is no longer in the tip window. What do I need to do to get the tip to appear each time I activate GIMP, please. I am using GIMP 2.6.7 and Ubuntu 9.10.

You are not alone.

The same massively retrograde step was taken in the Windows implementation too!

There is no such thing as a Windows implementation. The same code is used on all platforms.

The Tips of the Day can only be read from the Help menu currently. There is no way to make it appear on startup.

Sven

Hi Sven,

On 28 Nov 09 20:59 Sven Neumann said:

The Tips of the Day can only be read from the Help menu currently. There is no way to make it appear on startup.

That, indeed is the complaint, along with:

# There's no way to stop it appearing on start up (Having turned it on).

# There's no close button, so that once open you need to use a title bar button.

Put together, I'd say that completely breaks all the conventions for how a "Tip of the Day" should behave, not to mention, a user interface convention.

No idea why that had to happen, but it's almost at the stage where I say it might have been better to take it out all together, or just placed all the tips, on a single conventional help page.

However, I'm sure you've had the same thoughts yourself, and hopefully, with the next release, it will be back to the way it was before.

Greg

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 21:15 +0000, Greg Chapman wrote:

The Tips of the Day can only be read from the Help menu currently. There is no way to make it appear on startup.

That, indeed is the complaint, along with:

# There's no way to stop it appearing on start up (Having turned it on).

Sorry, but how do you make it appear on start up?

# There's no close button, so that once open you need to use a title bar button.

Put together, I'd say that completely breaks all the conventions for how a "Tip of the Day" should behave, not to mention, a user interface convention.

No idea why that had to happen, but it's almost at the stage where I say it might have been better to take it out all together, or just placed all the tips, on a single conventional help page.

As you can see in the UI specifications for GIMP 2.6, the tips were supposed to be available prominently from the image window: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/No_image_open_specification#inside_the_.E2.80.98no_image.E2.80.99_window

Unfortunately no one got around to implement this detail of the specification. If it bothers you enough to speak up on this mailing-list, why don't you make a patch that we can use for GIMP 2.8?

Sven

What's the chances the tip of the day could come as an automated daily email via this gimp-user list?

Just an idea,

Michaela aka "Newbie"

-----Original Message----- From: gimp-user-bounces@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [mailto:gimp-user-bounces@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU] On Behalf Of Norman Silverstone
Sent: Sunday, 29 November 2009 2:08 AM To: Gimp
Subject: [Gimp-user] Tip of the day

I read on the list the other day that there are some useful items in Tip of the day so I decided to activate things so that a new tip would appear each time GIMP was switched on. To my disappointment, the button to switch the tip on and off is no longer in the tip window. What do I need to do to get the tip to appear each time I activate GIMP, please. I am using GIMP 2.6.7 and Ubuntu 9.10.

Norman

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 14:09 +1030, Michaela Baulderstone wrote:

What's the chances the tip of the day could come as an automated daily email via this gimp-user list?

Just an idea,

Well, not such a nice idea, because certainly not everyone subscribed here would want to get such an automated email. But if you want one, there is hardly anything simpler than setting up a script that parses the gimp-tips.xml file as found in the GIMP source tree and sends yourself such an email once a day. Have fun.

Sven