[Gimp-developer] Tips for 2.6

2007-11-07 Thread Leendert Visser
At first my English is not very good, but I hope you can understand it ;) My tips for GIMP 2.6: - a more advanced textool with options for bold/underline etc. - Layer options dialog. (options for selected layer: shadows, inner glow etc, see Photoshop:

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: my summary.

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:42 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote: Roadmap will be closed by the end of this week, so I'd like to make a summary of the main issues I'd like to see fixed for 2.6 Nice to remind us of some issues but we are not going to put user wishes on our roadmap. It is

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 00:40 +0100, peter sikking wrote: * solve user request #1, part 1: one menu bar, keep window with menu bar open when no image is open, true floating inspectors, transparency where inspectors overlap the image (found a way how it can be faked); I don't

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-07 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: * solve user request #1, part 1: one menu bar, keep window with menu bar open when no image is open, true floating inspectors, transparency where inspectors overlap the image (found a way how it can be faked); I don't think that true floating inspectors are

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-07 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Nov 7, 2007 2:40 AM, peter sikking wrote: and something about text (layers), that is not so trivial in the UI btw, text, svg and other vector stuff need their own stacking order within a layer and if you want to avoid the question are they above or in the layer pixels, then they need their

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:47 +0100, peter sikking wrote: I don't think that true floating inspectors are implementable at all. But perhaps you need to explain first what true floating means. let's see: always on top of any normal window, but under menus and dialogs; does not

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:29 +0100, Marcus Heese wrote: First of all (although perhaps the least important), it would be good to have a well-designed font selection dialog, that allows a quick selection of a font even when you have a lot of fonts installed and you're perhaps searching for

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 16:22 +0100, peter sikking wrote: well, obviously where one works with colors in the inspector that part is either never or on mouse-over not going to be transparent. Where we are back at the point where this is not likely going to be ever possible on all supported

[Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Marcus Heese
Hi, I've made a little research about typography in the last week because everybody on the list was talking about this this time we get it right-thing. And here are the problems I see and some suggestions to it: First of all (although perhaps the least important), it would be good to have a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement - Diagonal line crop guide

2007-11-07 Thread Martin Nordholts
Tim Jedlicka wrote: (repost - got lost somewhere the first time) I stumbled upon this link describing the use of the Diagonal (45 degree diagonal from each corner of an image) as the optimum crop guide (better than rule-of-thirds or golden rule). http://www.diagonaalmethode.nl/ I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gdv, Vol 62, Issue 14 message 2

2007-11-07 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:03 +0100, M Tieleman wrote: You know, that is an excellent idea, but unfortunately aside from the brushes folder options, which I think are really needed, and pardon me if this is going a little offtopic, but the brushes themselves are still slow. Are you running

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Nov 7, 2007 7:29 PM, Marcus Heese wrote: Ok, but now more to the Western font problems. The so-called tracking is implemented with the letter-spacing mechanism. This is incorrect. Kerning adjusts kern pairs, tracking adjusts space between words. Letter spacing in GIMP is a simple solution

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gdv, Vol 62, Issue 14 message 2

2007-11-07 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Nov 7, 2007 4:30 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: You know, that is an excellent idea, but unfortunately aside from the brushes folder options, which I think are really needed, and pardon me if this is going a little offtopic, but the brushes themselves are still slow. Are you running

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

2007-11-07 Thread Marcus Heese
Alexandre Prokoudine schrieb: On Nov 7, 2007 7:29 PM, Marcus Heese wrote: Ok, but now more to the Western font problems. The so-called tracking is implemented with the letter-spacing mechanism. This is incorrect. Kerning adjusts kern pairs, Yup... that's right! tracking adjusts space

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-07 Thread peter sikking
Sven Neumann wrote: Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: I'm not sure this is the right time and place to argue, but from my experience using Paint.Net, which has this functionality, transparent palettes will absolutely useless and even annoying. I agree. Transparency will be distracting. counter

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: my summary.

2007-11-07 Thread Guillermo Espertino
Sven Nwumann wrote: Nice to remind us of some issues but we are not going to put user wishes on our roadmap. It is rather distracting to post user wishes to the developer list. People here should be aware of the shortcomings and without being a developer, your opinion is just one of many

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: my summary.

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:37 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote: What I suggested are not my wishes. I'm a professional designer and GIMP is a tool for my work. The things that I wrote are issues that make my work more difficult, while they shouldn't. We are way past this point. The

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:56 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: I'm not sure this is the right time and place to argue, but from my experience using Paint.Net, which has this functionality, transparent palettes will absolutely useless and even annoying. I agree. Transparency will be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement - Diagonal line crop guide

2007-11-07 Thread Martin Nordholts
Martin Nordholts wrote: Tim Jedlicka wrote: (repost - got lost somewhere the first time) I stumbled upon this link describing the use of the Diagonal (45 degree diagonal from each corner of an image) as the optimum crop guide (better than rule-of-thirds or golden rule).

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-07 Thread peter sikking
Sven Neumann wrote: well, obviously where one works with colors in the inspector that part is either never or on mouse-over not going to be transparent. Where we are back at the point where this is not likely going to be ever possible on all supported platforms using the toolkit that we