[Gimp-developer] Why does growning the selection rounds the corners?

2008-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Could anyone tell me why growing the selection rounds the corners? Many, many times I just want to grow rectangle selection by some pixels and don't want it to be rounded. So I have to always take the rectangle selection tool and adjust them. Could you add this feature?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Block user interaction while a plug-in is running?

2008-11-22 Thread jcupitt
2008/11/20 Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A better solution (and I think that the porting to GEGL is aiming in this direction, among other things) would be to put the filter and the transformations in a sort of queue, so the interaction is never blocked and the processes are stacked so

Re: [Gimp-developer] Why does growning the selection rounds the corners?

2008-11-22 Thread Martin Nordholts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Could anyone tell me why growing the selection rounds the corners? Hi! Because the algorithm is generic and does not attempt to retain any special geometrical properties of the selection. Keep in mind that the selection is essentially just a channel.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Why does growning the selection rounds the corners?

2008-11-22 Thread Martin Nordholts
Martin Nordholts wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you add this feature? I think your use case makes sense and one way to support it would be to add a check box to the Grow Selection dialog that if checked would only grow the selection in the x and y axis. - Martin Or

[Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.3

2008-11-22 Thread Sven Neumann
GIMP 2.6.3 is another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. The source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads