7. Known Bugs and Problems

• Floating Selections are only imported as normal layers. This behaviour may never change. The Selection itself is also read though and therefore it can be recreated as a floating one.
• The plugin does not clean up on failure correctly with current gimp 1.1 versions, this means that an image is selectable in the layer dialog which goes away when the list is refreshed. The bad thing is that GIMP crashes if this is selected. Is this a bug in the GIMP code?
• Linking layers can not be supported 100 percent with current GIMP versions. Furthermore, this only works in GIMP versions 1.1 and later.
• As this software is not well tested on systems other than x86/Linux, this will likely lead to trouble. At least src/lib/hwspecific.c and src/lib/debug.c need tweaking around with defines on some systems. See the file README in the top-level directory. Tests made under AIX 4.1 on RS/6000 using gcc showed that the pre0.2beta1 version is working on big-endian platforms too.
• Dodge mode layers don't show up in GIMP 1.1 versions prior to March 8, 1999 because the PDB interface has not been updated before - this is in fact not a bug in the plugin.
• The layer user mask positioning code might need more changes to set correct offsets in all theoretically possible cases.
• Several other bugs, bad or unintended features concerning the library are described in the appropriate manpages.
• If unit/resolution support is wanted for gimp version 1.1.3 (cvs snapshots having gimp_image_set_unit), GIMP_HAVE_UNITS must be defined in src/Makefile.