[Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-30 Thread jose a. g.
On 07/23/2009 05:38 PM, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Hello, I was about to write a rather detailed interface/feature improvement suggestion about the brush editing feature in GIMP but then I thought that first it would be better to show you all this (incomplete) interface mock-up I made: Hi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-26 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 07/26/2009 05:45 AM, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: This is something that I, as an user, would like to have. It also seems to save some screen space when editing on a notebook that can do only 1024x768 too :-) This is a smaller version I made which shows that at

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-26 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Martin Nordholts wrote: I would just like to point out that the smallest screen size supported by GIMP is 1280x1024, so we don't need to make 1024x768 work or look good. Yes, I've read that many times and I would agree with it too since anything lower than that resolution is rather old gear.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-26 Thread Alexia Death
On Sunday 26 July 2009 11:02:30 SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Martin Nordholts wrote: I would just like to point out that the smallest screen size supported by GIMP is 1280x1024, so we don't need to make 1024x768 work or look good. Yes, I've read that many times and I would agree with it too

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-26 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Alexia Death wrote: Id have to agree with this one. I namely own a laptop with this resolution. I havent had any problems using gimp on it tho and I hope it stays that way. Yes, by keeping two dockable areas (left and right side of the screen) as by default, a 1440x900 resolution enables to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-26 Thread Owen
On Sunday 26 July 2009 11:02:30 SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Martin Nordholts wrote: I would just like to point out that the smallest screen size supported by GIMP is 1280x1024, so we don't need to make 1024x768 work or look good. Yes, I've read that many times and I would agree with it too

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-26 Thread Akkana Peck
Martin Nordholts wrote: I would just like to point out that the smallest screen size supported by GIMP is 1280x1024, so we don't need to make 1024x768 work or look good. SHIRAKAWA Akira writes: Yes, I've read that many times and I would agree with it too since anything lower than that

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-25 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Yes, my proposition is to unify all of those. And this is a mock-up of my idea of how the toolbar would end up looking like by merging many tools into one: http://i25.tinypic.com/2ihxyd5.png -- SHIRAKAWA Akira ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-25 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Hello, I tried putting together my ideas I wrote about in this thread, in a single image. The result is an Inkscape-like SDI GIMP I know that in the medium term one of the main goal will be an SDI interface, and that would work very well with the improvements I have in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-25 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:19 AM, SHIRAKAWA Akirashirakawa.ak...@gmail.com wrote: New interface and improvements mock-up link: http://i31.tinypic.com/2qjd55k.png This is something that I, as an user, would like to have. It also seems to save some screen space when editing on a notebook that

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-25 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: This is something that I, as an user, would like to have. It also seems to save some screen space when editing on a notebook that can do only 1024x768 too :-) This is the annotated version I sent to the GIMP UI brainstorm blog. It doesn't add much more than what

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-25 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: This is something that I, as an user, would like to have. It also seems to save some screen space when editing on a notebook that can do only 1024x768 too :-) This is a smaller version I made which shows that at 1024x768 (and possibly at even lower resolutions)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-24 Thread David Gowers
I think this is a very good idea -- moving the 'different ways of painting' into brushes so that we don't need Paintbrush, Pencil, Airbrush but just one : 'Paintbrush'. I use GIMP mainly for pixel art, and I find that I really want the paintbrush/pencil/airbrush tool distinction to go away, so I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-24 Thread David Gowers
- Leave the old tool selection concept to the new taggable brush selection window With a new generic brush system in most of the brush behavior is described by the brush settings, it's possible to leave the old tool selection concept to the new (and possibly even more improved) taggable

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-24 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
David Gowers wrote: What do you mean here? I think we need at least these paint tools: Paint (this would be able to do all of what Pencil, Paintbrush, and Airbrush do currently, and perhaps also Eraser), Ink (this does not use 'brushes'), Clone (also Heal?) , Perspective Clone ,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-24 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
David Gowers wrote: I considered that modes might be how you meant to implement it. That is definitely a large change in the way the user would use paint tools, we should get Peter Sikking's input here for sure. Most users wouldn't normally have to play with those details. There could be a

[Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-23 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello, I was about to write a rather detailed interface/feature improvement suggestion about the brush editing feature in GIMP but then I thought that first it would be better to show you all this (incomplete) interface mock-up I made: http://i32.tinypic.com/1zwdwts.png Basically, in my

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 07/23/2009 05:38 PM, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Hello, I was about to write a rather detailed interface/feature improvement suggestion about the brush editing feature in GIMP but then I thought that first it would be better to show you all this (incomplete) interface mock-up I made: Hi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-23 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Martin Nordholts wrote: Hi Akira, I suppose you haven't seen http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Paint_dynamics_specification ? Hi Martin, Yes, I've already seen that! The idea (which I have not yet described in the opening message) is that each Dynamics button (those with the arrow inside)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 07/23/2009 06:17 PM, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Would you like me to write more in detail and be more specific regarding this? Absolutely, I mean why would you hold it back? BR, Martin ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-23 Thread Patrick Horgan
SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: Hello, I was about to write a rather detailed interface/feature improvement suggestion about the brush editing feature in GIMP but then I thought that first it would be better to show you all this (incomplete) interface mock-up I made:

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-23 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Martin Nordholts wrote: Absolutely, I mean why would you hold it back? Because in its entirety my vision is an extensive change not only in brush selecting and editing compared to the current versions, but also in many aspects of the user interface (depending on how much of it would be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improved brush editing interface mock-up

2009-07-23 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Patrick Horgan wrote: Very cool! I'd only add a save button on the bottom right so that this combination of settings could be saved as a named button if desired. Yes, as I wrote, it's still very incomplete and I made this basically to show that the brush editing window could include many