Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring Back the Keyboard!
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 18:56 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris writes: Unless, of course, the filename is in the ~/.gimp-2.x dir and you try to getthere by start typing . I am serious about this: I _lost_ almost 20 minutes in a 3 hour workshop trying to get people to open files in ~/.gimp-2.x - and It really is fairly tricky with the new file selector to explain to people how to get to files in ~/.gimp (for instance, to save or manage custom brushes, gradients etc.) This is fairly late on the discussion, and hopefully (!) wont dig up the flameware YET AGAIN to the surface, but there's a Show hidden files menu entry in the context menu on the file dialog's file list. It works nicely, try it. :-) Also, personally I like the new file selector _a lot_ more than the old. Drag some bookmarks to the left side, for places you often need to tab-complete into, it really is handy. Yes, it is different from what you were used to. Please try to be open minded. Most people seem to have a weird idea that regular users from windows really want and need to access files in hidden directories with the file selector.. Just because you were used to the old one, does not necessarily mean it is the best interface for everyone. The old one was regarded sucky for a LONG time. We just learned to use it. Do the same for the new, please and lets move on. We can improve the new one once we can leave the past behind :) //Tuomas -- A: No Q: Should i quote this on the top? ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Re: Should the checkerboard be linked to the window or to the image?
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 11:41 +0200, David Odin wrote: Imho, the later is nicer, but Sven told me it could make the scrolling and panning of the main image window much slower. What to you think? Yeah, I think the fixed checker might be nice - but the speed is more important here, especially with larger images. //Tuomas ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Using Gimp
On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 23:57, Russell St.Fleur wrote: I created a plug-in for gimp and when given certain parameters add text to the file. I would like to know if there is a way for the plug-in to work ie.. add the text to the file via the command line. This plug-in is stored on a Server and being accessed by other client machines. I want them to be able to open a window access the server, run the program without getting the dreaded Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display error. Just straight command line editing of an image and outputing it to a format. This is because Gimp needs an X display to work. Now, there is a way to work around this, either just point it to some machine that gives it access to the DISPLAY, or use the virtual framebuffer of the linux kernel (if the machine runs linux) and run an framebuffer X server on it. But you probably dont want to do that, since ImageMagick suits your task much better; see http://www.imagemagick.org/ - it is a poweful commandline tool that can also add text to images. And it has C, C++, Perl and Java API that you can use to write a small program or have it as part of a larger one. And it does not depend on a $DISPLAY, it can use truetype fonts directly from files. I use that myself with my webcam script to add the date and time and caption for example. I hope this helps Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Size entry widgets..
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 11:08, Nathan C Summers wrote: On 27 Mar 2002, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: * Yosh said it would be doable, not impossible. And told me to post to the list instead of dreaming of it on IRC :-) Sounds like a good idea. Can you file it as a wishlist bugzilla as well? Bug 76616 posted Tig -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Size entry widgets..
Howdy. I have been thinking about this thing for a while already.. pretty often I have a situation like this: * I will need to design a flyer or something, and try to fit it on a common papersize so it can be photocopied/color-lasered easily * But the size is too large, so I rather design a cut A4 in three (or US Letter depending where it will be printed) * A4 is 209.9028mm x 297.0389mm * My design would then be 209.9028mm x (297.0389mm / 3) which makes a nice flyer shape * It would be very very handy if I could type that into the New Image entry; Height: [ 297/3 ] millimeters and Gimp would do the division for me and round it to the nearest pixel. * It would allow the very basic math like add, subtract, multiply and divide. This would be very useful for situations like the above. * Yosh said it would be doable, not impossible. And told me to post to the list instead of dreaming of it on IRC :-) Tuomas -- :: :: Tuomas Kuosmanen :: Art Director, Ximian :: :: :: :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: www.ximian.com :: :: ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Plug-ins, menus and user interface
On 22 May 2001 02:09:00 +0200, Branko Collin wrote: On 21 May 2001, at 17:47, Raphael Quinet wrote: So in parallel with the discussion about the distribution of plug-ins, there should be a discussion about how to organize the menus. One idea that was proposed on this list some time ago was to be able to limit the number of things that are included in the menus. Some M$ applications offer reduced menus for beginners, What the menus in MS Word do is show the most important items plus those items you use the most. There is one big problem with this: tutorials. People are already having big problems following the tutorials that are written for gimp-before-the-menu-reorganization, now I think it could be just horribly hard if the tutorial says Select Image - Colors - Filter Pack and if that was considered Advanced while our user chose Beginner when starting Gimp for the first time. So it would not be in the menus at all. Tuomas -- .. | Tuomas Kuosmanen | Ximian | Art Director | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.ximian.com | `' ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] The GIMP Webpage
On 23 May 2001 00:43:56 +0200, Christoph Rauch wrote: We might. But not today. The discussion could go into technical stuff like how do we do this in php or something. The more important problem now is: Who is helping out? Who does the graphics, who the code? Where can we put the stuff? Many loose ends which still have to be closed. And what is the purpose of the site? Some answers can probably be found from webmaster@ mail archives (if there are such things) and by listening to users. Before thinking anything else we should think what should be there? And if we use PHP, we need some sense in the code, as PHP tends to evolve into ultimate spaghetti (just look at themes.org).. In that sense the perl template thingy would perhaps be better. Also PHP can be used like that, although not many people (including me) do it (there is a template class you can use and it fills your page template with stuff, much like Java servlets or the perl thingy) Anyway. like Christoph said, the all most important thing is to get the people to do it. Unfortunately I dont have too much time in my hands, but if I happen to get some excess Copious Free Time(tm) I could look into it. But unfortunately I will be on vacation starting next week, so I must disappear from this discussion (not that I have made a lot of noise lately anyway, because of a lot of work stuff (with the Gimp though! :)) Maybe a public Call for volunteers would be of help. Has anybody made good/bad experiences with something like that? Looking for PHP coders to hack on www.gimp.org is going to give a ton of Oh, I just found this PHP thing and it is l33t! -coders and will end up in ultimate spaghetti unless someone is looking over the code. Not that I respect the volunteer efforts, but we want to keep the thing maintainable so the page is easy to update if there is need and the main web dudes are away. *cough* :) Tuomas -- .. | Tuomas Kuosmanen | Ximian | Art Director | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.ximian.com | `' ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] The GIMP Webpage
On 23 May 2001 19:38:48 +0200, Christoph Rauch wrote: Raphael Quinet schrieb: That's pretty poor. Why would I want to update my bookmarks? You need not. gimp.org will happily redirect you to the page you wanted. Hmmm... This is better than nothing, but if would be nice if there could be some real pages (not redirects) at the following URLs, to which a number of other web sites (or user bookmarks) are pointing: downloads.html = /download/ and so on? different url, but same content. does that confuse the users? For the deeper nested pages like http://www.gimp.org/the_gimp_system_reqs.html which are not as often linked I would recommend a redirect. We should have those most-often-needed pages there, as they are not going to collide with the new structure (I prefer directories too, makes stuff more simple to maintain) - The pages would just contain a template to this page is moved to [insert new url here], once there are no hits to them in the logs anymore, we can remove them. And I think the best fallback thing to do is to have the 404 Document not found -page be a site map: --- -- - - - Oops, the page you are looking for is not found! Please, have a look below for the information you are looking for: * About the Gimp * Download -short info blurb here -short info blurb here * Learn to use Gimp! * Get new plugins -short info blurb here -short info blurb here * No good? Then why not visit our _main page_ and try looking around in there? If you came through a link from another website, please be kind and inform the webmaster to update their link! Thank you! The Gimp Development Team --- -- - - - Tuomas -- .. | Tuomas Kuosmanen | Ximian | Art Director | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.ximian.com | `' ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: The GIMP Webpage
On 25 May 2001 10:29:43 -0400, Carol Spears wrote: I hate when I have to wait for a lot of crap to load when I need help NOW(!) because someone thought it important for me to know he liked the tutorial. I prefer to assume that the people who are running the site already knew that it was a good tutorial and that is why it can be found at gimp.org. It doesnt necessarily mean that the page loads slow. The comments could also be on a separate page of course, like most news sites do. I know www.userfriendly.org is stupid in that sense (showing the comments in the comic page) but that doesnt mean we should also be stupid :-) Maybe there should be a separate gimp site for the windows users. The windows users are so different than the linux users. They don't mind They are? The gimp is just identical on windows anyway. But I don't understand this new web stuff. Then dont worry about it :-) Tuomas -- .. | Tuomas Kuosmanen | Ximian | Art Director | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.ximian.com | `' ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
