[Gimp-print-devel] opinions

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

Somebody in the core Gimp team made massive changes to the dialog box
(in 3.0!).  It's generally an improvement, although I have some
quibbles over it.  In any event, I'm less than thrilled that I wasn't
notified that this was happening, and actually I was asked about it
beforehand and I replied that I preferred if the person involved would
work with Steve on this.  In the event, that didn't happen.  So far I
haven't heard back from any of the parties involved.  As you can
imagine, I'm none too thrilled about this.  I'd rather that the person
who did this join our group, work with Steve, and work on sharing
improvements between 3.1 and 3.0.

I've made the changes in my sandbox.  I'm not at all confident that
this will compile under Gimp 1.0 any more.  So my question is, should
I check the changes in or not (Steve, would you like to review them
first)?  They are all in print.c, although they're hardly localized.
I think that the 1.0 compatibility is important, since 1.2 is not out
yet, and users of 1.0 really need a better printing solution than what
they presently have.

In any event, this kind of fixed dialog is hardly what I envision, and
when Steve last commented it sounded like he had some good ideas about
cleaning up the dialog and in general improving the situation.  I'm
not interested in a turf battle over this, although I think it would
have been polite to submit the changes in the form of a patch and ask
my opinion first, and given that I had specifically said that I wanted
anyone doing this to work with Steve, I'm disappointed.

(I have my own issues with the Gimp's release engineering -- if
they're in a feature freeze to the point that they're refusing a new
file format, why are they so eager for minor interface improvements to
the print plugin anyway?  All of this is simply going to delay 1.2,
which means that it will be all the more necessary for us to push
ahead with new printers and other stuff that the Gimp folks don't seem
to care much about.)

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