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Preferences
When you click the Options button a dialog window appeares wher you can
set the following options:
- Your favourite help browser. Since these manual doesn't contain frames
it would be an overkill to view these pages with netscape. Instead, you
should choose a lightweight browser (e.g. kdehelp,
chimera, dillo).
- The directory where these manual pages are found.
- Decide whether Babygimp should create backups for changed files
(extension .bak).
- Decide whether Babygimp should ask you before overwriting an existing
file.
- Set a timout for critical operations. This will be used for the
following operations:
- Loading and saving images is done using the buggy methods of
Tk::Photo (see the internals section).
In earlier versions this could lead to crashes or hangups when
reading or saving gifs or trying to read unknown file formats. In
this versions the crashes are caught and hangups are avoided be using
an alarm timer.
- The alarm timer is also used when plugins, importers and exporters
are invoked.
- The undo buffer may be very memory consuming when you handle large
images. In this case you should choose a small buffer size and store
intermediate results in the clipboard.
- The default width and default height are used when Babygimp is invoked
without arguments.
These preferences will be stored in the file ~/.babygimp/babygimp.config.
Since the preferences file contains a shell command (the helpbrowser),
Babygimp will ignore the preferences file if you change its permissions so
that other users can read it.
In order to specify exporters/importers for file formats other than xpm
you have to invoke the importers/exporters editor from the file menu. For
details see the importing and exporting
section.
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