GIMP 1.2.2. Help Files

This Readme file consists of the following chapters:

1. Legalities
2. Contents
3. Translations of the GIMP
4. Installation
5. How can you help?



1. Legalities

This archive is a derivative of the official GIMP 1.2.2 
release. As such, it is completely covered by the GPL 
(the license), which is included in the file Copying. You cannot
derive any rights from the paragraph you are now reading: it is
not part of the license. Read the license if you want to
know your rights regarding copying, distributing and modifying
the contents of this archive.



2. Contents

help/
	The new and improved Help files.
scripts/
	The Scheme scripts that have been modified since the 
	last Windows release (1.2.0)
tips/
	The tips files (containing the text you may get to
	see at start-up of the GIMP)
ABOUT-NLS
	About how you can help translating free software. My
	personal pet peeve ;-)
authors
	A text file containing the names of the GIMP's authors
copying
	The license under which this archive is being 
	distributed
Readme.txt
	The file containing the text you are now reading



3. Translations of the GIMP

I included the tips directory, because some of the files in 
there have been translated or added. I have not included the 
translations of the program itself, since that would require 
making a Windows version of the object files. I will do that
for a certain language if enough people ask me nicely. 



4. Installation

Installation is simple, but not automatic.

Copy the top level files to your top level GIMP folder. If your
GIMP folder is c:\Program Files\GIMP\, then that is your top
level folder. 

You do not have to include the Readme.txt, as it is no part of
the official GIMP distribution. However, if you copy the 
archive of which this Readme.txt is part of, you MUST include
it. 

Replace your current `help' folder with the one in this archive.

Replace your current `tips' folder with the one in this archive.

Move the files from the scripts directory in this archive to your
GIMP scripts directory. In the example given above, this would be
either c:\Program Files\GIMP\scripts\ or 
c:\Program Files\GIMP\_gimp1.2.UserName\scripts\, or whatever you
have indicated to be the scripts folder in your GIMP configuration.



5. How can you help?

Something that is often overlooked is that you do not need to be 
a programmer to be able to help a project such as the GIMP.

If you are a Windows programmer, however, please consider helping
the current porters, as they have indicated the lack of good
Windows programmers to help port the GIMP to the most popular
desktop platform for several times now.

If you are a company that has to use the GIMP for financial reasons, 
please consider paying GIMP developers (or outside developers) for
fixing bugs and adding the features you need.

If you recognise spelling mistakes or other language errors in any
of the texts in the GIMP distribution (for instance, in screenshots, 
menus, manuals, etc.), please consider notifying the original author
of the mistake and offering a better alternative.

If you are an artist, please consider mentioning that your art was
made using the GIMP, and also consider writing tutorials outlining
how you achieved the trickier bits of your art.

If... fill in for yourself. Your expertise is always valuable to the 
GIMP.


Branko Collin <collin@xs4all.nl>, July 27, 2001.