On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is not a popular graphics program in > > existence that requires these steps to draw primitive shapes such as > > boxes. It's no more complex than that. "A" solution is to add a > > simple, basic primitive drawing tool to gimp. Coincidently, that is > > also the "right" solution -- it perfectly fills the requirements of > > the goal. I'll draft up a spec some time. It may turn out to be > > acceptable, it may not. I'll keep it simple. > I want to make myself clear, I would support the idea of shape drawing tools (box, ellipse, polygon), providing they have the following functionality: 1. Drawing mode+opacity, since it is a paint tool. 2. Choosing between FG,BG,Pattern, and No fill 3. Enabling or disabling antialiasing 4. Enabling or disabling stroking (so you can just quickly draw a filled polygon, say, with no edging.) 5. UI should be based on their respective selection tools -- eg the resizing of a box or ellipse, or editing of a polygon, should be operated completely identically to their selection counterparts.
6. These tools are hidden by default (use Tools palette to un/hide or reorder tools) Point 6 is mainly because.. GIMP is not a drawing program. (much as I would like it to be :), I do agree that you should be able to do basic drawing of the kind you want in it. I would use these tools myself; I acknowledge that I'm not the target audience of the GIMP, nor are you apparently (see http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign#product_vision ) _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
