Hello. I invite developers to take in consideration the question of gimps launching speed. I think this is the very first issue to solve, before many other things. It can take up to 1.30 mins to load the app, and this is an unreal time for 2018 standards because of fonts loading. I suggest to dismiss completely the fonts load/preload during gimps launch. In 90% of case gimp is used for photo editing, crop, quick edits, not for adding texts to the images, via the text tool. In 90% of cases gimp is opened and closed without hitting once the text tool. Also consider that a designer usually has more than 3000 fonts installed, and waiting gimp to load em all, is quite a waste of time if they wont be used. Gimp is mostly a photo editing software, not a paging software. Gimp should be ready to work in 5-6 seconds from the exe launch, i really think this is the key. Light apps are the key for the future. Postpone font loading in a second moment (delayed background loading), or use a selective loading process, once the text tool is selected.
Best regards. Fulvio Il mer 14 mar 2018, 13:00 <gimp-gui-list-requ...@gnome.org> ha scritto: > Send gimp-gui-list mailing list submissions to > gimp-gui-list@gnome.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > gimp-gui-list-requ...@gnome.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > gimp-gui-list-ow...@gnome.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of gimp-gui-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Inconsistencies in angle of rotation measurements (Elle Stone) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:44:57 -0400 > From: Elle Stone <ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com> > To: gimp-gui-list <gimp-gui-list@gnome.org> > Subject: [Gimp-gui] Inconsistencies in angle of rotation measurements > Message-ID: > <a9f8c54f-ef50-59f6-91b6-14b6d9746...@ninedegreesbelow.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Stopping to add/subtract the appropriate angle to make various tools and > filters match the angle measured by the Measure Tool is a bit of an > interruption. > > Is there an option somewhere (that I haven't found - I looked in the > toolbox and in Preferences) to tell the Measure Tool to show angles from > 0 to 360 counterclockwise to match the angles shown by the Paint Tools? > > And a second option to tell the Measure Tool to show angles from 0 to > +/- 180 degrees to match the layer arbitrary rotation operation? > > And a third option to tell the Measure Tool to show angles from 0 to 360 > degrees *clockwise*, to match Filters that measure angles clockwise > instead of counterclockwise from the positive x-axis? And etc if there > are other starting points/directions for other Filters/operations that > take angles as user input? > > If there aren't already such options available, maybe it would be a good > idea to have all angle measurements for all tools and filters be > counterclockwise from zero at the positive x-axis? Though some angle > measurements are more comfortably done starting from 0 degrees at the > positive y axis. > > Here are various ways current GIMP tools and operations measure angles: > > * The "click/shift to position and paint" angle measurements measure > counterclockwise from zero to 360 degrees, with zero being at the > positive x-axis. > > * Filters/Blur/Circular Motion Blur and Linear Motion Blur angle of blur > both run from 0 to 360, counterclockwise (matches the Paint tools). > > * The "View/Rotate View/Other Rotation Angle" angle of rotation > measurements from 0 to 360, but *clockwise* (opposite direction from the > Paint tools) from the positive x-axis. > > * For arbitrary rotation of a layer, the rotation measurements from > always from 0 at the positive y-axis, running from -180 > (counterclockwise) degrees to +180 (clockwise) degrees. > > * The "Measure Tool" measures the angle from the closest of the positive > and negative x axes. So the maximum angle the Measure Tool will show is > 90 degrees, which means there are four angles (one per quadrant) that > measure 1 degree, four angles that measure 2 degrees, four that measure > 3 degrees, and so on, all the way from "just over 0" to "just under 90 > degrees", with 0 and 90 degrees only being measured at two angles each, > being the positive and negative x and y axes, respectively. > > Rotating a layer or selection to match an angle measured by the Measure > Tool requires some fairly complicated adding/subtracting. Let's say you > measured an angle of 27 degrees in the third quadrant. So starting from > 0 rotation, add 90 degrees to get to the negative x-axis, and then add > 27 more degrees, so rotate the layer or selection by 90+27=117 degrees. > > Painting a straight line at a given angle that was measured using the > Measure Tool requires adding/subtracting 0 or 90 or 180 or 270 degrees, > depending on the direction of the painted line vs the angle measured by > the Measure Tool. > > And etc. > > Here are some possibly relevant bug reports: > > add easy way to set rotation angle to straighten an image: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526719 > > > Measure tool: saveable preset parameters: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679562 > > > The Angle range in brush dynamics should be -180?/+180? and not 0?-360?: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787651 > > implement free angled guides: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344109 > > Best, > Elle > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-gui-list mailing list > gimp-gui-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list > > > ------------------------------ > > End of gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 24, Issue 4 > ******************************************** >
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