Roadmap will be closed by the end of this week, so I'd like to make a summary of the main issues I'd like to see fixed for 2.6 Since I'm not a coder, I just can give my user pov, so I'll try to be realistic and don't ask for too radical things, just changes to improve the existing tools. Please consider this list just as mere suggestions. Of course, maybe some of these things need full GEGL support and are impossible at this stage, so please ignore them if that's the case.
1) Semi transparent overlay of the original layer when transforming (scale or rotate). (It seems pretty obvious with the planned Cairo support) 2) Redrawing speed at <100% zoom Redrawing when a large image is zoomed out is still slow. the quality of the display is excelent, but just turning on or off a layer (for instance) is slow. I guess that using a low resolution proxy of the actual image for this operation and processing the actual pixels in the background would make the process of displaying layers and applying filters / color adjustments more agile. But again, I'm just guessing, and the roadmap isn't the place to say how it shoul/could be done :) 3) Axis Constrain for move tool. This is very, very useful. 4) Angle constrain for path tool. Afaics in the documentation, this feature existed in previous versions. Was it removed? 5) Fade Tool should work for all the filters and color adjustment tools. Currently it doesn't work for curves or levels, and that would be very useful. 6) Better screen space usage by default. I'd really like to see as an intermediate solution (until the UI team brings a more complete solution) a minor panels re-arrangement to get more screen space (two-column narrow toolbox and tool properties moved to the main docker). An introductory window with the current toolbox menu when no image is open (as I proposed a couple of days ago) would be nice too. Also, the size of the widgets and input boxes in the dialogs is quite big. Everything is spaced, which is pleasant to the eyes, but frequently eats too much screen space. I don't really know if this has to do with the GTK theme or it can be adjusted in GIMP, but just watching the UI I can see that reducing the padding and spacing just a couple of pixels could reduce the size of the dialogs and panels without sacrificing the visual goodness. 7) I left this for the end because I don't know if it will be possible at this stage: The text tool needs improvements. I don't know if they can be made before GEGL or it should be bumped to a future version. - Text edition on canvas. - modify text properties "inline" (selecting a part of the text and changing the options doesn't change the whole paragraph). - Don't destroy transformations when editing text properties. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
