[Gimp-developer] help needed on gimp development

2005-05-24 Thread Chin2
hi everyone i'm new to gimp. and i am very excited about the project.. i'mm currently doing my engineering and would like to get involved in gimp development.. but sadly i know nothing about it would somebody be kind enough to help me start... plzz i downloaded the source code but coudnt

[Gimp-developer] Idea for new plugin

2005-05-24 Thread Chin2
hi everone around i have an idea for a new plugin for gimp. i may not be able explain it very well. but for those who wuold understand it would be nice.. the idea is about rotation of a selection.. what we have now is that the entire selection itself gets rotated..i.e if you rotate an oval

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, GSR - FR [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been thinking, and remember some people were saying tools were running out of mod keys. Why not reserve it for those cases? Tools could use shift, control, alt and space. Or is the any technical limitation about making mod+space a mod? The fact

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, GSR - FR [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I wonder... are there other better uses? Alternate between two tools for example? Or would there be a way to make it configurable, so anyone can bind any function to it (I ask due the only while pressed vs press release, and the lack of move view

Re: [Gimp-developer] use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Andreas Rsdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To decide which operation which is most common, it would be interesting to see some numbers comparing the two alternatives (and perhaps others). One could gather data for which operation is most often executed by a typical user, sort of like a

Re: [Gimp-developer] use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
On 5/23/05, Laxminarayan Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An entire new idea of keystrokes : for the keyboard shortcuts: if you press a key the normal way ,it will select the tool indefinetely alright. But if the key is pressed and held, and i do something, and then release the key, the tool

Re: [Gimp-developer] use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Adam D. Moss
Jakub Friedl (lists) wrote: it is a good idea. the descibed behaviour is really handy when editing zoomed in image. however i use the current space function too. would it be possible to use a different key for the temporary move tool? The genius behind the choice of space key is that it can

Re: [Gimp-developer] use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Jakub Friedl (lists)
The genius behind the choice of space key is that it can easily be hit (on all keyboard layouts!) without looking away from the screen... exactly, and this is(imho, of course) most useful for panning Jakub Friedl ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Idea for new plugin

2005-05-24 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Chin2 wrote: Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:34:42 +0530 From: Chin2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: [Gimp-developer] Idea for new plugin hi everone around i have an idea for a new plugin for gimp. i may not be able explain it very

Re: [Gimp-developer] who can tell me the type of color quantization algorithm in GIMP?

2005-05-24 Thread Adam D. Moss
YG Wang wrote: The color quantization in GIMP is high-quality. Can you tell me which algorithm it is? Thanks a lot! It resembles a common axis-aligned box-cut (I tried many, many alternatives and just kept coming back to an axis-aligned box-cut for simplicity). It has various changes over a

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key

2005-05-24 Thread Akkana Peck
Sven Neumann writes: I consider to change what GIMP uses the Space key for and would like to get some user feedback on this. Currently, pressing the Space key temporarily switches to the move tool. Spacebar to switch temporarily to move is awfully useful. I didn't know about it until this