Hi Victor,

Am 24.05.2007 um 01:22 schrieb Victor Domingos:

Hello!

I am currently using the GIMP on an Apple computer, more specifically a Powerbook G4. I runs quite well, but I feel like it's a little slow. One of these days, I tryed to run it with Ubuntu Linux, in the same machine, and it seemed to run a lot faster. And I wonder now if there could be another GIMP version or build for Mac that would be more optimized for this platform. Does anyone know about any?

To tell you about "other" builds, you should have told us where you got your GIMP version from?
There are a couple of prebuild packages for OS X out there - e.g. GIMP.app at
http://gimp-app.sf.net . The most optimized solution however might be to build GIMP on your own
machine. To do so I'd recommend you have a look to darwinports at http://www.macports.org

I know that there is a GIMP-related project named Seashore. It has a clean interface, but it is meanless to me, as it lacks most of the features I like to use...

Seashore has nothing to do with GIMP, except that some of the basic technologies that where developed for GIMP were used for a new application. Concerning features is Seashore much closer to Paint than to The GIMP.

One other question... Is there a completely universal Mac version? Some weeks ago, I tryed to run the GIMP in a MacBook Pro (Intel C2D) and there were no Filters, and the cursor had a funny aspect.... Does anyone here use the GIMP under MacOS X in the new Intel Macs? Which version? And does everything work ok?

GIMP.app (see above) is AFAIK a universal package. Also building GIMP on your own machine gets you a i386 binary version. Right in the beginning (after Apples surprising switch to the dark side) there where indeed some more or less minor problems. Both, the yellow colored cursor as well as the missing filters are known phenomenon. One can be fixed in the GIMP preferences, and the other was (most likely) due to some bug in the GTK libraries and could be worked around by special environment variables.

I'm using GIMP at one of the very early MacBook Pros, build it with a little help of darwinports and do not have any problems you described any more.

Happy GIMPing,

lexA

Thanks!

Victor Domingos
http://lojamac.com/blog

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 08:14 +0200, Axel Wernicke wrote:

GIMP.app (see above) is AFAIK a universal package. Also building GIMP on your own machine gets you a i386 binary version. Right in the beginning (after Apples surprising switch to the dark side) there where indeed some more or less minor problems. Both, the yellow colored cursor as well as the missing filters are known phenomenon. One can be fixed in the GIMP preferences, and the other was (most likely) due to some bug in the GTK libraries and could be worked around by special environment variables.

So the cursor problem is still not fixed? It would be worthwhile to investigate where this problem is located. I suspect that it's a bug in the Apple X11 server but shouldn't it have been addressed by now then?

Sven

I use gimp-2.3 from the development build under fink or ports (i forget which one). It has all the features you want.

the only problem I *hate* is that the X11 will not take control of Gimp when I click on it once...i have to click twice to activate a tool...very annoying.

On 5/23/07, Axel Wernicke wrote:

Hi Victor,

Am 24.05.2007 um 01:22 schrieb Victor Domingos:

Hello!

I am currently using the GIMP on an Apple computer, more specifically a Powerbook G4. I runs quite well, but I feel like it's a little slow. One of these days, I tryed to run it with Ubuntu Linux, in the same machine, and it seemed to run a lot faster. And I wonder now if there could be another GIMP version or build for Mac that would be more optimized for this platform. Does anyone know about any?

To tell you about "other" builds, you should have told us where you got your GIMP version from?
There are a couple of prebuild packages for OS X out there - e.g. GIMP.app at
http://gimp-app.sf.net . The most optimized solution however might be to build GIMP on your own
machine. To do so I'd recommend you have a look to darwinports at http://www.macports.org

I know that there is a GIMP-related project named Seashore. It has a clean interface, but it is meanless to me, as it lacks most of the features I like to use...

Seashore has nothing to do with GIMP, except that some of the basic technologies that where developed for GIMP were used for a new application. Concerning features is Seashore much closer to Paint than to The GIMP.

One other question... Is there a completely universal Mac version? Some weeks ago, I tryed to run the GIMP in a MacBook Pro (Intel C2D) and there were no Filters, and the cursor had a funny aspect.... Does anyone here use the GIMP under MacOS X in the new Intel Macs? Which version? And does everything work ok?

GIMP.app (see above) is AFAIK a universal package. Also building GIMP on your own machine gets you a i386 binary version. Right in the beginning (after Apples surprising switch to the dark side) there where indeed some more or less minor problems. Both, the yellow colored cursor as well as the missing filters are known phenomenon. One can be fixed in the GIMP preferences, and the other was (most likely) due to some bug in the GTK libraries and could be worked around by special environment variables.

I'm using GIMP at one of the very early MacBook Pros, build it with a little help of darwinports and do not have any problems you described any more.

Happy GIMPing,

lexA

Thanks!

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http://lojamac.com/blog
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Am 24.05.2007 um 08:31 schrieb Sven Neumann:

Hi,

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 08:14 +0200, Axel Wernicke wrote:

GIMP.app (see above) is AFAIK a universal package. Also building GIMP on your own machine gets you a i386 binary version. Right in the beginning (after Apples surprising switch to the dark side) there where indeed some more or less minor problems. Both, the yellow colored cursor as well as the missing filters are known phenomenon. One can be fixed in the GIMP preferences, and the other was (most likely) due to some bug in the GTK libraries and could be worked around by special environment variables.

So the cursor problem is still not fixed? It would be worthwhile to investigate where this problem is located. I suspect that it's a bug in
the Apple X11 server but shouldn't it have been addressed by now then?

I haven't seen the yellow cursor for quite a while, but thought that it disappeared after I changed GIMPs cursor preferences. Lets see.. ... oh, OK - the cursor preferences are _not_ set to black and white bitmap any more and the cursors are displayed correctly. So this means the problem is gone after all. (Tried with GIMP 2.3.16) And yes, there have been some X11.app updates from Apple in the last 6 months or so.

Greetings, lexA

Sven

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