[Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread KishoreKumar Bairi
Hello folks, I recently migrated from Photoshop to Gimp. Though GIMP is offering powerful functionalities, its way of opening each window of each image is bugging me a lot. My entire taskbar is filled up with GIMP windows.I'm really looking forward to see all gimp images in single Gimp window. It

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread KishoreKumar Bairi
want to use the original GIMP.(reason, not very clear). GIMPSHOP is just an abomination, that use a 4 years old gimp codebase and which isn't supported by anyone.By using GIMPSHOP , you won't be able to follow any ps tutorial nor any gimp tutorial and you won't have support anywhere. I've

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Tobias Jakobs
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Ingo Ruhnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] I listed some other features that I have been missing for a while at: http://happypenguin.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=20741#20741 But no promise that I will implement them to, just public brainstream of stuff I miss.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread peter sikking
Ingo Ruhnke wrote: The patch adds a very simple standard Gtk toolbar to the Gimp image window: http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/gimp-toolbar.png sorry to dampen the enthusiasm here, but that is that last thing we need, in an application of this calibre. Just because it can be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Monday 16 June 2008, peter sikking wrote: Simply said: a toolbar like this does not fit the UI of GIMP. What a lame excuse to exclude a time saver and great help to occasional users of the GIMP... Not everyone wants to cram his brain full of key shortcuts! Why not have the toolbar placeable

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: On Monday 16 June 2008, peter sikking wrote: Simply said: a toolbar like this does not fit the UI of GIMP. What a lame excuse to exclude a time saver and great help to occasional users of the GIMP...

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread David Gowers
Hi, GIMP does all the right things (and so, for example, it works as you'd expect on Linux). If it still does not behave correctly, this is a problem with GTK+. I think first you should try GIMP 2.5 if you can. Some things changed since 2.4 regarding this issue; it's possible that 2.5 may solve

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Monday 16 June 2008, you wrote: My hi-end definition boild down to streamlined UI for professionals. Much of the streamlined UI for the professionals can be had if the toolbar - as proposed - would be configurable in both position (there is no reason why it should not be vertically alignable

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread Chris Moller
KishoreKumar Bairi wrote: Hello folks, I recently migrated from Photoshop to Gimp. Though GIMP is offering powerful functionalities, its way of opening each window of each image is bugging me a lot. My entire taskbar is filled up with GIMP windows.I'm really looking forward to see all gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:52:15 -0400 From: Chris Moller [EMAIL PROTECTED] KishoreKumar Bairi wrote: Hello folks, I recently migrated from Photoshop to Gimp. Though GIMP is offering powerful functionalities, its way of opening each window of each image is bugging me

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread Alexia Death
David Gowers wrote: Hi, GIMP does all the right things (and so, for example, it works as you'd expect on Linux).ERRR... Not on Linux. It is dependent on a VM. I tested kwin, compiz and metacity, the three most common VMs on Linux today. Exactly *one* VM of those handles the hints as

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread Chris Moller
Alexia Death wrote: P.S No, I'm not whining, just correcting an inaccuracy. P.S.S No, changing a DE is not a solution. P.S.S.S Sorry David, I intended to send it to the list not just to you... annoying_pedantic_mode It should be, e.g., P.P.P.S. Sorry... for Post-post-post-script,not

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Ingo Ruhnke wrote: a) Todays screens are big enough Hate to tell you, but this is plain wrong. Here is current (last month) statistics for my community web project: 1280x1024 - 39,11 % 1024x768 - 27,09 % 1280x800 - 11,77 % 1680x1050 - 5,26 % 1440x900 -

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Ingo Ruhnke
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Ingo Ruhnke wrote: a) Todays screens are big enough Hate to tell you, but this is plain wrong. Here is current (last month) statistics for my community web project: So what? If

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread Tobias Jakobs
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:55 AM, KishoreKumar Bairi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, I recently migrated from Photoshop to Gimp. Though GIMP is offering powerful functionalities, its way of opening each window of each image is bugging me a lot. My entire taskbar is filled up with GIMP

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Tobias Jakobs
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ingo Ruhnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:05 PM, peter sikking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I outlined at the LGM: vertical space comes at a premium for GIMP. a) Todays screens are big enough There is never enogth space if it comes to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Monday 16 June 2008, Tobias Jakobs wrote: There is never enogth space if it comes to the work with big photos. And as photos are usully in 4:3 and a lot of modern monitors are 16:10 the vertical space is more important. You assume too much. In fact the majority of photos that professionals

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Customizable Toolbar

2008-06-16 Thread Ingo Ruhnke
Here an extended toolbar patch (unfinished work in progress, not meant for commit in the gimp tree): * http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/gimp-patch-2008-06-16.txt It adds a secondary toolbar, so that one can have two at once. This of course is a little ugly, but I haven't seen any easy way to