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Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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Gimp is the bestest graphic editor in the world. That's it. Now we don't have to discuss that anymore in this thread. My question is about installing Gimp on Windows where we have several users. Our network admin got frustrated when Gimp seemed to create a huge user profile for each Windows user on one machine. I don't know what that's all about, I got the feeling that all possible fonts found on the computer got copied to each user's profile, instead of Gimp just using one common font resource. Has the Gimp development overseen the needs and demands of a multi user environment? Or is the problem on a completely different level? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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Most likely it's some GTK+ thing. --- |
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kenmasters1976
Member #8,794
July 2007
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Johan Halmén said: Has the Gimp development overseen the needs and demands of a multi user environment? I'd bet on this.
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Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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Well, we used to have Gimp at work, but then the admin guy got fed up and bought some licenses of PaintShop Pro. But this stupid application suffers from its own multi user problems. I guess it's simply wrongly installed. When I'm logged in on Windows as a normal user, It launches but gets stucked in tar or something. It doesn't freeze completely, but is otherwise quite useless. When I log in as an admin, it works quite well. If it won't get better, I'm going to suggest we get back the Gimp. Wonder if it's possible to install Gimp only for one user on Windows, so that it doesn't multiply the resources for every user. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
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Michael Faerber
Member #4,800
July 2004
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Have you read this? The closest way I found to modify GIMP's behaviour to your needs would be to adapt gimp_dir to a system-wide path, however, this would probably result in users not being able to save settings. I didn't read the whole page and the associated man pages though, so you may find a real solution somewhere among those documents. I had to deploy GIMP in a multi-user environment about five years ago, and I still remember it being quite difficult to set up, so it could be quite possible that there is no way to realise what you want to do. The easiest and probably cheapest way would be to just let GIMP take up space on every user account. EDIT: Are you sure it is fonts that are being copied to the user account and not just plugin data? I can't remember it copying fonts, so this could be faulty behaviour indeed. How big does the user profile become? -- |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Johan Halmén said: Gimp is the bestest graphic editor in the world. I did not read past this sentence because it is clearly false. MS Paint is the best ever! |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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