Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 21:55 +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: There is a project called CREATE which does have a spec for resource/asset directory organization, I hope to be able to use it for the visible user stuff, at least. I suggest that you also have a look at the basedir

Re: [Gimp-developer] Suggestions for 2.6: hopefully not very difficult

2007-11-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 17:39 -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote: It sounds simple enough. Any hints as to how it should look? Would the Tools dialog be added to the bottom of the Toolbox preference tab as a scrollable area or should it be at the top? It could be in a scrolled window or, if that

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Grosberg
Michael Schumacher schumaml at gmx.de writes: My suggestion for GIMP 2.6 - and the only thing I feel able to contribute to - is the reorganization of the user directory. Not sure about the standards on Linux, but in Windows, if we take a hint from the likes of Adobe or Autodesk,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Suggestions for 2.6: hopefully not very difficult

2007-11-05 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
On Nov 5, 2007 1:04 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am concerned that we are hiding important functionality here and that most users will never figure out how to get the dialog in case they should need it. But since even the UI team seems to suggest that we do this change, we

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI redesign: 1 Dimensional Menu for GIMP

2007-11-05 Thread peter sikking
Esteban, Hi all, This is the 2ยบ draft for the 1 Dimensional Menu: http://www.zensui.org/IxD/1DM.html in your honour we created the GIMP UI brainstorm: http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/ please post your idea there. On another note, is a new mailing list dedicated exclusively to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Suggestions for 2.6: hopefully not very difficult

2007-11-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 18:45 +0530, Laxminarayan Kamath wrote: myStupidTwoCents Cant this be implemented like the playlist buttons in XMMS/Winamp ? I mean the tiny triangle which users intuitively take as There are more options!. /myStupidTwoCents We are talking about showing a dialog

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-05 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 11/5/07, Valerie VK wrote: This is why I suspect it to be a transparency problem and not really a process problem. People actually Won't criticize a process if they think it is doing a good job. In the case of the GUI team, we don't know if it's doing a good job. In fact, we don't see a

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI redesign: 1 Dimensional Menu for GIMP

2007-11-05 Thread Esteban Barahona
originally the idea was to make a menubar more comfortable... but I don't understand your idea fully. current menubars, although one of the most used widgets, are too uncomfortable... 2007/11/5, David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I may not understand your description. It gave me an idea, though:

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Esteban Barahona
2007/11/5, Michael Grosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Schumacher schumaml at gmx.de writes: My suggestion for GIMP 2.6 - and the only thing I feel able to contribute to - is the reorganization of the user directory. Not sure about the standards on Linux, but in Windows, if we take a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-05 Thread Esteban Barahona
2007/11/5, Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Solve the transparency problem, and the criticism will go away. You say what to do, but you don't say how. allowing comments (with moderation... like most blogs) on http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/ will be a good start. the wiki of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-05 Thread Esteban Barahona
As an example of why a GIMP.UI mailing list (or changes in the blog) is necessary Send your image to us [EMAIL PROTECTED], put the word 'GIMP' in the title of your email (to avoid spam, emails without GIMP in the title or without an image attachment will not be opened). So, if I have a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Schumacher
Esteban Barahona wrote: allowing comments (with moderation... like most blogs) on http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/ will be a good start. The idea is that comments are done by images - if you do like something, you can add more suggestions based on it. If you don't like something, you

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-05 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 11/5/07, Esteban Barahona wrote: You say what to do, but you don't say how. allowing comments (with moderation... like most blogs) on http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/ will be a good start. That won't work. Brainstorm means no discussion. Otherwise it's not a brainstorm. See, I do

Re: [Gimp-developer] momentary shortcut to the zoom tool?

2007-11-05 Thread Simon Budig
Sven Neumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 10:25 -0400, Daniel Falk wrote: There doesn't seem to be a way to temporarily switch to the zoom tool while a button is pressed. For example if I hold down ctrl + space, it would switch to the zoom tool, I could click-drag a

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread jernej
On Monday, November 5, 2007, 11:23:55, Michael Grosberg wrote: Putting resources in the user's my documents folder is bad form - this is a folder for *documents*, not resources. While I agree that putting resources in My Documents is a bad thing, the problem with Application Data is that it's

Re: [Gimp-developer] momentary shortcut to the zoom tool?

2007-11-05 Thread gg
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:00:00 +0100, Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tend to think that it should be moved to the display of the image to make it easier to fluently change the view/zoom on the image without interrupting the current workflow. -- UI team Bye, Simon That makes

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Richard Hirner
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:02:10PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree that putting resources in My Documents is a bad thing, the problem with Application Data is that it's a hidden folder, which normally isn't accessible. What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: Open

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 and how to continue from here

2007-11-05 Thread Adrian Likins
Sven Neumann wrote: At that point trunk will be open for development. But since we are aiming for a short development cycle, we need to absolutely keep the tree in a good shape. I don't want to see any commits that haven't been discussed and approved beforehand. This doesn't mean line-by-line

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature request for a spot healing brush

2007-11-05 Thread Daniel Falk
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:30 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:37 -0500, Daniel Falk wrote: Photoshop has a tool that works like the healing brush except that it doesn't require a source region to be specified before using the tool. When there are a lot of quick

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-05 Thread Valerie VK
This is why I suspect it to be a transparency problem and not really a process problem. People actually Won't criticize a process if they think it is doing a good job. In the case of the GUI team, we don't know if it's doing a good job. In fact, we don't see a job being done at all.

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 20:38 +, Richard Hirner wrote: What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: Open brushes folder which opens the appropriate folder with Explorer / Nautilus / whatever needed? There can be more than one brush folder. Sven

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature request for a spot healing brush

2007-11-05 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 19:29 -0500, Daniel Falk wrote: Since we don't know how this works in detail, there is not much point in suggesting that we add such a feature. I could find a video for anyone interested, but that really wasn't my point. I suggested the feature not simply to