Like Berlusconi's claims: a lot of words without substance or proof. Which misplaced folder?
Which "numerous files"?
BTW, the files under .gimp-2.6 are here and remain here for a very good reason.
mario

On 19-Nov-11 02:43, Mark Potts wrote:

I was very unimpressed by this software package. I needed some image editing capabilities under Windows and this seemed like a good choice. However when I installed the package it spewed files into various misplaced folders. I subsequently uninstalled only to find that despite claiming success at this it left numerous files on my system. Even though it is free sofctware there is still no excuse for this kind of sloppy coding.

Mark
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On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:43:41 -0800, Mark Potts wrote:

I was very unimpressed by this software package. I needed some image editing capabilities under Windows and this seemed like a good choice. However when I installed the package it spewed files into various misplaced folders.

Really? Which folders are these? The (semi-official) installer can only place the installed files in the chosen installation directory (which defaults to C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0 in GIMP 2.6), and the icon in Start Menu. On the first run, GIMP will create it's profile in the home directory (which isn't ideal, since those files should go to Application Data, but there's nobody around to fix it), but other than that GIMP won't touch anywhere else unless you explicitly tell it to.

I subsequently uninstalled only to find that despite claiming success at this it left numerous files on my system. Even though it is free sofctware there is still no excuse for this kind of sloppy coding.

If you're using the latest stable version (2.6.11 as of this writing), the uninstaller will remove everything that can be removed (some older versions had a bug that could leave 1 or 2 small files behind, but this was fixed long ago). User-specific settings cannot be safely removed on any version of Windows, and as such are left behind (it's the same with other programs, except you usually don't notice that, since they store their stuff in the hidden Application Data directory).

Mario Valle writes:

Like Berlusconi's claims: a lot of words without substance or proof. Which misplaced folder?
Which "numerous files"?
BTW, the files under .gimp-2.6 are here and remain here for a very good reason.

To make that more clear: The .gimp-2.6 folder keeps per-user settings. When you uninstall the program, you only uninstall the program files, not your personal settings folder, which might include brushes, patterns, scripts, etc. It would be _very_ bad form to remove this when uninstalling GIMP.

Would you prefer that it "uninstalled" the images you created in GIMP as well?

On 19-Nov-11 02:43, Mark Potts wrote:

I was very unimpressed by this software package. I needed some image editing capabilities under Windows and this seemed like a good choice. However when I installed the package it spewed files into various misplaced folders. I subsequently uninstalled only to find that despite claiming success at this it left numerous files on my system. Even though it is free sofctware there is still no excuse for this kind of sloppy coding.

Mark