[Gimp-developer] tool presets
Hi, We currently have the new Tool Presets dockable dialog that has zero factory preset. Maybe we should should opulate it a bit? Some cropping presets for popular photo paper formats, DVD and whatnot? Steal some presets for painting tools from G-P-S? Oh, and will those be translatable? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] tool presets
On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 07:38 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Hi, We currently have the new Tool Presets dockable dialog that has zero factory preset. Maybe we should should opulate it a bit? Can you bind presets to keystrokes? If not, I don't think it's worth it. A minimum of three clicks to choose a preset (assuming the dialogue is docked but not on top) means it'll only be a win for fairly specific settings, and those are more likely to depend on the user/task/project. -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] tool presets
2011/9/5 Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com: Hi, We currently have the new Tool Presets dockable dialog that has zero factory preset. Maybe we should should opulate it a bit? Some cropping presets for popular photo paper formats, DVD and whatnot? Steal some presets for painting tools from G-P-S? This is not something that blocks a 2.8 release and we badly badly need to make a release. This should wait until after 2.8. / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ Single-window mode feature complete ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] tool presets
2011/9/5 Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote: This is not something that blocks a 2.8 release and we badly badly need to make a release. This should wait until after 2.8. How does it prevent you from releasing 2.8? Any feature we add at this point will delay the 2.8 release because someone needs to actually write the code, test the feature, fix bugs, take feedback into account etc. Even if we get a patch from the outside, a core developer basically needs to do all of the above except writing the initial code. With limited resources, we have to prioritize. And releasing 2.8 has higher priority than having default tool presets. We can always add those later. And with the shorter development cycles we aim for, it's not a big deal if a feature makes it into x.y or x.(y + 2). / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ Single-window mode feature complete ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] tool presets
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We currently have the new Tool Presets dockable dialog that has zero factory preset. Maybe we should should opulate it a bit? I agree. It should have at least something in it. Some cropping presets for popular photo paper formats, DVD and whatnot? Steal some presets for painting tools from G-P-S? We shoudn't probably offer straight up GPS tools, because people a likely to install gps themselves. But a few examples should be included I guess. Oh, and will those be translatable? Resources are not translatable by nature as far as I know. .. On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: Can you bind presets to keystrokes? If not, I don't think it's worth it. You cant, but I cant see how thats relevant. The old tool presets always required 2 clicks, same for bringing up the dockable and selecting a preset. Now, I personally just keep the preset selector on top most of the time with tag active for currently relevant tool set. Tool presets pay off when you need to use the same tool with very different settings. Paint tools are an obvious case, but Im sure there are others. I personally have presets for the common cut 2:3 + rule of thrids guides. Its easyer to use the preset when ever I need it than to go and configure it. On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com wrote: Any feature we add at this point will delay the 2.8 release because someone needs to actually write the code, test the feature, fix bugs, take feedback into account etc. Since when does adding default resources counts as a feature or involves significant amount of coding and risk of breakage? I would agree if this was a coding task. It is not. If it was, there would be something very wrong with the setup. We sort of promised our users better resources with this release but nobody has take it up... The very least we could do is to provide some defaults for the new things so people know what it does. -- --Alexia ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] tool presets
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote: Any feature we add at this point will delay the 2.8 release because someone needs to actually write the code, test the feature, fix bugs, take feedback into account etc. Are we still talking about a single resource file and a patch to Makefile.am to make this resource file installable? What sort of risk does it impose on release of 2.8? Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
