tyme

I think he meant Mandriva 2008.1, not 8.1.

You never know... :lol:

Yeah, I don't believe Mandrake Linux 8.1 was even on a DVD

Sometimes I don't think before I post. It's a bad habit...

Actually I don't care if computers work mainly with RGB.

Yes, but it doesn't matter if you care. The fact is they do, and GIMP wasn't originally created to be aimed at professionals - it was aimed at the hobbyist Linux user.

I and many other people need - in order to print images in the newspaper - full CMYK support as newspaper-print-machines work only in CMYK mode.

You're "many other people" are a small portion of GIMP's audience, really. GIMP was never intended as a competitor/replacement for Photoshop - people have made it out to be.

I do not really blame the developers for not having CMYK support included yet, as I guess that it is really difficult to offer a proper CMYK-mode.

You may not blame them, but you are certainly criticizing them for it. Did you read the link I posted? Properly testing CMYK support is NOT CHEAP. Maybe if someone is so darned keen about GIMP having CMYK support, they'll be kind enough to donate the necessary hardware for them to test it on.

 

CMYK support = time + money for hardware

GIMP = time, but no income

....

I would suggest getting a more recent release of Mandriva. 8.1 is really, really, really, really old. In fact, it may not even install/work from USB.

CMYK isn't very useful in the computer world, as almost everything displaying the images is RGB-based. Professional printing/photography, yes, but the computer world - not so much.

 

There's a semi-decent post on this issue from a Scribus developer here.

It's a pretty common warning - in most circumstances it can be safely ignored.

sean: please do not double post problems. one problem = one thread.

 

mod or admin: please close this topic: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=59834

discussion of this is here:

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=59944

linux needs an elevate rights button popping up in case an application needs more rights to do what you tell it to, maybe using policykit....

Talk to the developers of the application in question. The ability is there, but it's up to the developers of the application to implement it.

enable 3d effects and then post the contents of your xorg :)

 

(sorry, I should have clarified that)

It's mostly stuff like bloom and other things that smooth the edges of objects, IIRC. I'll have to load up WoW when I get home and see.

there haven't been any, really. all i can say is keep an eye on icculus.org - as that's who's porting it.

and a noticeable performance increase over Vista.

There are a few reasons for that (don't get me started on Vista!), but one thing is that in Linux - no matter what you use - you don't get a lot of the extra graphics stuff (shaders, basically). At least, the last time I set it up I couldn't turn on some of the eye candy. That helps improve performance a good bit.

please post the contents of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

I would suggest against installing to a CF card for a server.

please let us know what the last thing you see on the screen when you try to boot the DVD is. thanks :)

Instead of going to the custom partition screen, you should be presented with an option to use the entire second disk (most likely called sdb - DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT mess with sda - that is where Ubuntu is). This is probably the "easiest" option. If you can give us a list of the options you see aside from the custom partition option, we should be able to tell you which one is a good fit for your setup - and help you avoid the need to custom partition the drive.

 

as long as none of the partitions you create reference sda (i.e. /dev/sda1) your Ubuntu install should be safe.

crappy linux distro buys crappy linux distro. wooo!

 

I think Mandy needs to get some company that makes PC's to put Mandy on it.

They had a few deals like this. Not sure what the current status of them is, though. adamw might know?

viking: it might be a good idea to post your problem in the appropriate forum, someone might help you there. unless you already posted it (i didn't check, too lazy) then nevermind :)

somehow i've been lucky. most bugs i've come across were usually already reported (and I'd just add my experience to validate) or were reported and fixed.

 

though I did find one in opera 9.5 tonight that I need to check on:

I tried to open the Java Console (two times, once on a site, once on just the "speed dial" page) and it beach-balled (for over an hour the first time).

1. For the benefit of the owner of this web site: messages like the above, are the reason why I do not come to this site as often as I used to. Perhaps this will be my last post here.

iphitus is a long standing member of this forum. he has contributed much to the linux world, including being on the arch linux team. you may find his post abrasive, but his tone comes from the point of view of a developer who has seen too many people complain about bugs in forums but never filing a bug report. perhaps he is a bit jaded, nonetheless, i believe his intent was to help, despite his tone.

how unfortunate.

I just went with the templates colour defaults but I suppose does mean you have to look hard on them.

Yeah, not really your fault, theme creators fault.

 

As per the edit, didn't find what I needed to change that menu colour in the CSS.

Yeah...I've never had to change the color of a drop down box via CSS before...you might have to put it inside a span with an id and then add the css, etc. dunno if that makes sense...i'll toss an example together if you need it.

yeah i looked at them. i can see how they may seem "dark", but given the right text color it should be readable anyways. sites only become really unreadable when the text color is too close to the bg color, or the bg is too complex of an image.

well, when i looked it was using siteground32, which I remembered from sometime when he posted his site before, so I assumed that was the theme being discussed.

 

btw, ian, in siteground32, you can't read the text in drop down boxes because it's white (and by default, the background of the drop down box is also white). you'll probably have to add a CSS class for drop downs so the text is black instead.