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Duplicate This means that the same bug has already been reported by somebody else. If you see this resolution, you will
also see a pointer to the earlier bug report, which will often give you a lot of useful information.
Notabug This means that the behavior described in the bug report is intentional. It may seem like a bug to you (and there
may be many people who agree with you), but the program is working the way it was intended to work, and the
developers don’t want to change it.
NotGnome The bug report is valid, but it can’t be addressed by changing GIMP. Problems in operating systems, window
managers, or libaries that GIMP depends on will often be given this resolution. Sometimes the next appropriate step
is to file a bug report for the software that is really at fault.
Incomplete The bug report did not contain enough information for anything to be done about it, and the reporter did not
respond to requests for more information. Usually a bug report will be open for at least a month or two before it is
resolved in this way.
Invalid Something is wrong with the form of the bug report: most commonly, the reporter has accidentally submitted
the same bug report multiple times. (This can easily happen by mistake with some web browsers.) Bug reports that
incorrectly describe how the program behaves may also be resolved as Invalid.
Note
If you disagree with the resolution of a bug report, you are always free to add your comments to it. Any comment
added to any bug report, resolved or not, causes email to be sent to the GIMP Bugzilla mailing list, so it will at
least be seen by the maintainers. This does not, of course, mean that they will necessarily respond to it.