Hi,
Le 6 nov. 2015 à 08:18, Elle Stone <ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com> a
écrit :
On 11/05/2015 05:39 PM, Jehan wrote:
That would leave all the tools that are under various menus, but
don't
have icons to put them in the toolbox. Maybe a generic icon for "all
other tools?
Which tools? Are you sure they are tools and not filters?
Most are filters, as they are under the filters menu. And there are a
few other editing operations sprinkled around the menu tree that don't
seem to have associated icons/cursors and also can't be put in the
toolbox.
A generic "other editing operation" icon/cursor might be a nice thing
to display when the selected editing operation doesn't have an
editing-operation-specific" icon/cursor.
What is the defining difference between a filter and a tool, other than
the place they show up in the menu and whether they can be put in the
toolbox?
Filters are basically plugins/scripts made to edit pixels (though
nowadays they have mostly been re-implemented as GEGL operations
instead), and as such they have a very limited interaction with GIMP GUI
as of today (limited by the API GIMP provides). As far as I know, GIMP
has no API to change the cursor to be used over the main canvas.
Moreover you can perfectly run several plugins at once (which in many
cases — in particular for these plugins which actually edit pixels —
would not be wise), so how would this be dealt with anyway?
Tools are hard-coded in GIMP, not through plugins, and you can only
select one tool at a time. Being hard coded in GIMP core, they have
access to any part of a GUI that you are willing to implement. But users
are not able to create their own tools without going through the normal
upstream validation.
Jehan
Best,
Elle
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