Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-02 Thread Gino D
Hi. 2010/6/2 Jason Simanek jsima...@gmail.com: A new layer is non-destructive. Why is there a need for this other type of layer? The name 'floating selection' isn't even accurate. This is a collection of pixels. It is not a selection. A selection is an ephemeral mask not a collection of

[Gimp-developer] Notes of the GIMP BOF meeting at the LGM 2010

2010-06-02 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. Thanks to all attendants to the LGM 2010, it was a tremendous conference, I enjoyed it a lot. And thanks to the organizers for coming up with the note taking service: for our GIMP BOF agnez did jot down what was discussed, thanks a lot for this. I mostly left the notes unedited, except

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-02 Thread Jason Simanek
Gino, On 06/02/2010 06:12 AM, Gino D wrote: 2010/6/2 Jason Simanekjsima...@gmail.com: A new layer is non-destructive. Why is there a need for this other type of layer? The name 'floating selection' isn't even accurate. This is a collection of pixels. It is not a selection. A selection is an

[Gimp-developer] GSOC: Cage based transform tool

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Muré
Hi everyone, A quick mail to let you know that I started a blog about my summer of code. You will find on it my progress about this tool, and some others things. Since I'm still in both school and exam, I didn't started to code, but stay tunned ! The blog is here: http://pellelatarte.fr/en/

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-02 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Jason Simanek jsima...@gmail.com Thanks for listening. If a discussion about these issues has already taken place, please provide URLs to those discussions. I have no intention of reopening discussions that have already been resolved. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561576

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-02 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Hi, This has just been discussed in the Libre Graphics Meeting which just took place, and should be the main subject of the Summer of Code project I am mentoring. there are other motives for the Floating Selection (i.e. the quasi layer) to exist, but of course, the existing usability for that is

[Gimp-developer] parasite usage

2010-06-02 Thread Giampaolo Bellini
Hi all I'm writing my first first plugin for gimp and I'm looking for more info about parasite: expecially, I wonder if there is a standard way to improve parasite's compatibility between different plugin revisions... what if, for example, I add, change or remove a parameter from my parasite

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-02 Thread peter sikking
Jason Simanek wrote: Has there been any discussion about doing away with the 'floating selection' quasi-layer that occurs after copy/pasting in Gimp? hey, what a coincidence. actually last weekend at lgm there was a meeting (joao, pippin and me) about giving Elle Yan's 'on-canvas tool' SoC

[Gimp-developer] comparison of enlargements produced with two GIMP methods, three GEGL methods, and three candidate GEGL methods

2010-06-02 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
I have created 6.11x enlargements with two GIMP methods, three GEGL methods, and three candidate GEGL methods for which patches are provided in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619314 The enlargements, named a.png to h.png, are found in the 15M tar archive