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Good luck! --Panic (talk) 18:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Not so :) ... (Only the Windows OS uses the .exe extension for an executable.)
See details for file extension .EXE are on this page. My favorite (the Amiga .exe) and at least Sony also still uses (.exe). But the correction you made was well done, just informing you that someone else uses it... --Panic (talk) 18:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks Panic, that info was interesting to hear. Also, thanks for the welcome message (although I'm not new). --Chelseafan528 (talk) 19:38, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

The GIMP book
So I'd like to ask you about few things, and I'm asking here because right now you're the only active contributor. So the question is about the toolbox articles. The idea is to make general articles like selection techniques, with some info, and then add sub-pages about every of these tools with full description and possibly a little example for it. And the other question is what about all those images, shouldn't they be added to some category? I can do that, just thinking if either to the same category as articles, or make another category, maybe called "The GIMP - Images" or "The GIMP/Images". I know I should probably ask it on the talk page of the GIMP book, but I ask here. This is just that those are quiet much bigger changes to the currently existing articles. If you think it should be there then just move it to there, and answer there. Thank you. Soeb talkundefinedcontribs 19:40, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm OK with it being here. We've already got a general toolbox page with links to the selection techniques, etc. Your idea of creating separate pages for each tool is great. Perhaps we could copy info from the GIMP manual. We just need to give credit, since Wikibooks uses the same license. We could then make updates for GIMP 2.6 if needed. (Well, I can't, I'm stuck on Ubuntu Hardy LTS with 2.4 and my attempt to compile 2.6 has failed. I also tried to upgrade to Intrepid instead, which broke my system and caused me to reinstall with Hardy. Recently, there was a message in the Gimp-user mailing list from a user also struggling with 2.6 on Hardy.) On your second idea, I have noticed that many have already been categorized as 'The GIMP', and I don't want any wasted effort, so just categorize them as 'The GIMP'. Chelseafan528 (talk) 19:38, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, I categorized them, I though it should be done so. I understand your problem with upgrading, because I my update crashed too, even though everything was so well going. Anyway I've got 2.6, and I'm sure some people too. Then I'll start working on making separated pages for every tool. I should probably make it the same way as it is there, although copying it... well, it uses same license, and could be rewrote later. Also when it comes to 2.6, there's a WIP version of manual.
 * Sorry, forgot to sign. So I made a template, for the book. Do you think it should be used? Soeb talkundefinedcontribs 14:03, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Your navigation bar seems OK. However, I think our current navigation bar is better and has a simpler design. I can convert this to the template if needed. Are you on Intrepid? According to your work, you seem to be. Or maybe you had a successful compile (there was an error at GEGL's 'make' for me). Anyway, if you need any help, I can try helping with a copy of 2.4. --Chelseafan528 (talk) 16:18, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This is Wikibooks, so anybody can help. I have both Interpid, and successfully compiled. Currently I don't use 2.6, as I recently got a development version from SVN repository. Have you tried compiling BABL and GEGL from svn? That's from where I currently got it. Also the GEGL's here. You could try it from there, though it's an Interpid repository. I could help with compilation if needed, I discovered some problems when compiling GEGL on Hardy, but somehow (after two months of break from it, damn it! :-)) I managed to compile it later. Why don't you update to Interpid? This would solve the problem. Well, If you could make a template, that would look like the current one, and also could be used on both sides of the page, then it would be great. That's why I still didn't putted it on any page. So as I said I can help with any compiling problems, I spent much time on it, and would be happy to help. Soeb talkundefinedcontribs 17:06, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

I've changed the template to look like the current one. To me it seems backwards compatible with yours. My solution to 'be used on both sides of the page' is to just add the horizontal bar in when needed to the page. I'm going to try compiling from source again. --Chelseafan528 (talk) 17:29, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, but well, it cannot be used on first and last page. Using if template, as it was before would make it alright. I'll try to find some time and make it. Soeb talkundefinedcontribs 21:08, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Done, so now just to put it on pages, this won't be much work, I'll take care of it. Soeb talkundefinedcontribs 11:43, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sorry for spamming your talk page this much. So I got another idea, this time the attribute #2 and #4 is optional. Just wanted to inform you, see description of it on the templates page, with few examples. Also right now the template is putted on few pages, you can see how it works - no problems with it. If not the fact you changed the template I wouldn't get any of these ideas. Soeb talkundefinedcontribs 12:06, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't tell the difference between the directly-coded navigation bar and the template navigation bar. Well done! It's working properly (I looked at the 'Preface' page). Thank you for making the bar much better. (Anyway, my compile didn't go well. The same problem with GEGL happened.) --Chelseafan528 (talk) 15:28, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

The Toolbox
Maybe you've already saw my comment on toolbox's talk page. As no one by now has had answered, I hope you could. Then it would motivate me to actually finish the proposal, if I knew it is accepted as a replacement (and also to upload the images under new names). Oh, and I made a new section here, so it'll be easier to answer. Soeb talk&#124;contribs 19:12, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

The GIMP/Manual Of Style
As you said before you have only few pages on your watchlist, I just wanted to notify you I made a convention of a possible manual of style for The GIMP book. Could tell me what do you think of it and/or say what would you like to add/change/remove (here or on its talkpage). Soeb talk&#124;contribs 17:24, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Excellent work (yet again). It looks like our current pages are compatible with the new standard, and I think that it would make contributing much easier in that contributors would not have to look through and guess the style. I would remove the question mark next to it and make it standard. (BTW, I also made a minor edit to the grammar.) --Chelseafan528 (talk) 19:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Great. Then if it is good, now just something would need to be covered in it too (just what's not been covered yet, although what is there now, is enough for contributing). And I placed a question mark there, as meaning it's reference, that's not part of the book. But feel free to change it to anything more adequate. Soeb talk&#124;contribs 20:56, 4 March 2009 (UTC)