[Gimp-user] Gimp 2.6's Clipboard Brush - disable possible?

[SilversleevesX]

Hi.

This is my first post to the list.

I wanted to know if it were possible to disable the Clipboard Brush 
feature in GIMP 2.6?

Frankly, I think a better direction for something copied or cut to the 
Clipboard would be to Patterns, not Brushes. As a longtime Photoshop 
user (4 versions on Mac OS, two on Windows), I've no doubt that the 
minor hassle of turning tweensy picture X.jpeg into a pattern will be 
something I'll remember to my dying day. If an intuitive shortcut should 
be applied to clipboard/pasteboard data in a graphics app, patterns seem 
to me the more useful of the two directions.

Much of the to-clip and from-clip activity I do is whole pictures, and 
whether scaled or not, color-depth-reduced or not, a brush with 
something 640x...@24 on it/to it, while it would make for a nice 
diversion or "toy" or plug-in, doesn't quite rate with me as the new 
bleeding-edge feature of as well-known a freeware graphics application 
program as is the GIMP.

I presume the developers went this way because to "take it to patterns" 
might have meant a re-think of the pattern-making and -reading code, and 
there probably wasn't time or incentive enough for that: this seemed the 
more expedient option and so it was done. Fine. Let the user have the 
option of "turning it off," then, if such an option is not already 
present in version 2.6.

So is it?

BZT.
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[Gimp-user] [Windows] GIMP swallows the competition('s lib files.)

[SilversleevesX]

Okay, the better word might be "variant" or "spin-off."

Here's the scenario.

Before I installed my latest GIMP 2.6 in Windows (don't sweat it -- it's 
been on my Ubuntu laptop since late April of 2010), I was using 
GimPhoto. The splash to GIMP 2.6 at that time didn't like my video 
configuration (Intel for Lenovo M55p -- those who have 1 will know what 
I mean) and the splash at launch kept coming up invariably as an outline 
with no graphic and no progress bar. GimPhoto's on the other hand did 
not do this.

GimPhoto itself was missing the menu item "Show selection" in "View." I 
was thinking, "What? Even MS (and in their day Mac- and Super-) Paint 
have show/hide selection in a menu or on a button... somewhere. And this 
tweak of Gimp 2.3 doesn't *have* it? Not working for me!" So I went back 
to the tried and true, the authentic, the genuine, the GIMP.

Kept GimPhoto installed though, in case I got myself into one of those 
frames of mind where I'm positive a visible splash trumps a missing menu 
command by an ace and a queen. So I had a quick edit to do of a pic I 
found on the Web; launched GP -- it rebuilt _its font cache. I thought, 
"Okay, that's understandable: I've been doing some purging and 
housecleaning myself, both with Windoze tools and third-party 
alternatives. It makes sense that a GTK-enabled app would have to 
reorient itself with Windows fonts as well as its slate of L/Unix ones.

Next thing I know, while the format 'engines' loaded fine, I got a 
"Please insert disk in drive D:" and "Can't create preview" in 
succession in open dialogs. So I exited and checked to see if the Real 
Thing would have the same issue. Of course it didn't. I found out a 
short time later that GP's /bin folder was missing the two libjpeg DLLs 
that GIMP The Genuine Article's /bin folder had. So I took no chances; 
work of a moment to copy them from one bin to the other. Then I was out 
of GTGA in a shot, because I figured if no previews and a disk-insert 
request every time I turned around was in store for me in GP, then it 
was time to uninstall. No need; it loaded the DLLs and previews were 
back in business. The drive-insert dummy calls I fixed via Disk 
Management in Admin Tools.

Just thought I'd share this with the list in case anyone's inclined to 
stray and use a "variant" or a "spin-off" in Windows.

BZT
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