[Gimp-developer] pasting image: please provide mode for dragging

2010-05-25 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hello, When you paste an image (to an image) you can set transparency and mode for pasting. I.e. for example you can set transparency 50% and after pasting images will be "blended" with such setting. However it would be useful to have the same settings for related operation -- not "pasted", bu

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-18 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Monday 18 May 2009 20:46:21 Kurt Pruenner wrote: > Maybe it's just me, but I would expect the mousewheel zoom to > center on the mouse cursor while hitting + and - on the keyboard > should zoom from the center... This would mean that people with some disabilities are limited by gimp. The same

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-18 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Monday 18 May 2009 09:13:03 Fredrik Alströmer wrote: > > I realize that the current behaviour has the reason, but also I > > try find out the way, so users with other workflow could benefit. > > It'll probably be very hard to solve for everyone, I guess solving > for 'most people' (don't try to

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-17 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Sunday 17 May 2009 16:40:54 Rob Antonishen wrote: > Instead of zooming in and out all the time why not vreate a new > view at the other zoom to have both always available? Well, I could zoom in and then not zoom out at all, just scroll, but both those solutions require more work than zooming

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-17 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Sunday 17 May 2009 13:08:33 Fredrik Alströmer wrote: > I don't want to add fuel to the fire, Nah :-), we are talking not quarreling :-)) > I just wanted to point out > that Sven is not alone in his opinion. I realize that the current behaviour has the reason, but also I try find out the

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Saturday 16 May 2009 00:09:45 Alchemie foto\grafiche wrote: > Is not simple and intuitive create, or move, the selection where > you want your object be paste ? I just found out -- maybe I put my wish into reverse. Instead of changing current behaviour maybe adding function: a) sticky draggin

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 22:02:53 Sven Neumann wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 21:55 +0200, Maciej Pilichowski wrote: > > On Friday 15 May 2009 21:38:04 Sven Neumann wrote: > > > Keeping the pixel under the mouse cursor fixed has the > > > advantage that the behavio

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 21:52:01 Sven Neumann wrote: > And I refuse to discuss such changes with someone who > completely disrespects this effort and calls the placement random. Surely it is your call, for me it is odd though that using word "random" is taken as offense and being just a user of gi

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 21:38:04 Sven Neumann wrote: > Keeping the pixel under the mouse cursor fixed has the advantage > that the behavior for zooming in and out is consistent. Well, it would be consistent if gimp consistently kept this pixel-cursor relation. But it is not (gimp 2.6.6). Open any

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 21:23:57 Sparr wrote: > When you paste a second time, the first paste should still be > visible and selected(?) and the floating selection is the current > drawable, and thus the second paste end up on top of it (allowing > for difference in paste sizes), right? Can you elab

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 21:25:54 Sven Neumann wrote: > I explained the currently implemented logic in another mail. It is > by far not random. Did you even try a recent development snapshot > before you posted your wishes here? I tried it for a test and it is centered indeed :-) However since I mo

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 21:03:27 Sven Neumann wrote: > Not sure what version of GIMP you are using. But the current code > has the following logic: > > > If there is a selection, paste to the center of the selection > boundary. > > If there is no selection, paste to the center of the viewport > unle

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 20:40:21 Sven Neumann wrote: > GIMP doesn't place the pasted content randomly. What makes you > think so? Because I don't see any relevance in second paste to what I do (and where I do) and I see no relevance between first paste and the second one. And it should be. I k

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 19:57:39 Sven Neumann wrote: > > DEFGHIJK|12345|ABC > > DEFGHIJK|12345|ABC > > > > What is your definition of "focusing on that area"? Focusing on the > 5 for means having 5 under the mouse pointer. > Now how can you possibly argue that this is not intuitive and > useful? I

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-15 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Friday 15 May 2009 09:06:25 Alec Burgess wrote: > However (I hadn't tried this before) if with zoom-tool you do > Ctrl+click+drag to define "area of interest" then release AFAICT > the "area of interest" always remains visible. Possible problem (?) > - you may find it zooms out "too quickly".

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] alignment rotation

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Thursday 14 May 2009 19:46:23 Akkana Peck wrote: > You could perhaps do this with a plug-in: > > - Use the Paths tool > - Click on first point, then on second point > (now you have a straight-line path with two endpoints) > - Run a plug-in (which you can assign to any key you like) > that g

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without a ny reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Thursday 14 May 2009 20:17:43 Akkana Peck wrote: > I've found the "paste centers" behavior quite useful, It is predictable and more useful than random placement for sure. But with hires monitor I would still like some kind of hint from the mouse. Maybe LMB click and then paste would do it?

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Thursday 14 May 2009 19:26:41 Martin Nordholts wrote: > It is > better than a random insertion point, yes, but so what? I am puzzled -- if it is better (and I agree) we should use it. Is there any reason to keep worse UI? I think progress means search for better solutions and use them. Here

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Thursday 14 May 2009 18:43:01 Martin Nordholts wrote: > Maciej Pilichowski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > But if there is no reference (no previously selected region for > > example) it would be useful to paste the block initially at mouse > > cursor position >

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] alignment rotation

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Thursday 14 May 2009 18:00:22 Jay Smith wrote: > We use this Gimp feature on virtually every image we create, > sometimes _hundreds_ per day. > > Once we originally set the number of lines in the grid, we have > felt no need to make a change for months ... thousands of images. I can say only f

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] alignment rotation

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
On Thursday 14 May 2009 15:26:46 Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: > I've always just used the measure tool to tell me what the angle is > and rotate by that angle. I'm sure your suggestion would make it > faster, but not by much. I think it would be much straightforward (less thinking) -- "I want to

[Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hi, Problem: --- The problem is with zoom in and zoom out. Gimp does not recenter the area user focuses on. With zoom in the workaround cost is small (the most problematic is how to zoom in the image when it still fits into the window), but with zoom out it is significant. It affects produ

[Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hi, In GIMP 2.6.2 when pasting several references are taken into account -- and that is useful. But if there is no reference (no previously selected region for example) it would be useful to paste the block initially at mouse cursor position (counting left, upper corner of the rectangle which

[Gimp-developer] [wish] alignment rotation

2009-05-14 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hi, In GIMP there is such feature as rotate. This is of course useful but when correcting, you can say alignment, it is also useful to have ability to rotate image in such way that some point would make horizontal or vertical line. User would click on one point on the image, then click on the

[Gimp-developer] [wish] position paste block near the mouse cursor if the source position is out of the view

2009-05-09 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hi, When you select, copy and paste a block the block is initially placed near the region which was selected. This makes sense and it is useful. However, when you select, copy, scroll and paste a block, the block is also initially placed near the region which was selected (also out of the vie

[Gimp-developer] [wish] provide transparent color

2008-09-27 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
> From: "Alchemie foto\\grafiche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 3 > May > be is missed, also the possibility to select transparent area as > was a color,meaning using the magic wand or the color selector > tool.. > But since there is "alpha to selection"(=select transparency) that > is no too missed... wel

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] provide transparent color

2008-09-24 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hello, > On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:03:43 David Gowers wrote: > This is because it violates the normal behaviour of alpha, which is > a specifier of opacity for a particular color; without a color, an > alpha value is meaningless. Like black color is a max.dark blue (or red, or even white)

[Gimp-developer] [wish] provide transparent color

2008-09-23 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hello, > From: bgw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How does "draw with transparency" differ from using eraser tool > with x% opacity? Pencil and eraser are counterparts of course, but I wished for transparent color, not just transparent pencil (yes, it exists, and it is eraser). > From: Chris Moller <[

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] provide transparent color

2008-09-23 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hello, > From: Simon Budig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We currently use alpha to do proper antialiasing, compositing > existing photos on top of each other and in all of these cases a > coupled "alphacolor" (= color + alpha value) would be cumbersome > and unhelpful. Why unhelpful? Note, that you are a

[Gimp-developer] [wish] provide transparent color

2008-09-23 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hello, I was asked to bring this issue to the ML instead of discussing it on bugzilla so here we go. Original post: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553003 Please, provide transparent color or in other words -- treat transparency _also_ as a color. I know GIMP has alpha channel a

[Gimp-developer] [bug] incorrect math: adding/substracting empty selection deselects selection

2008-09-23 Thread Maciej Pilichowski
Hello, I was asked to bring this issue to the ML instead of discussing it on bugzilla so here we go. Original post: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549925 Simple facts from math and Gimp: 0 is empty set A is just a set what is A u 0 ? in Gimp it is 0 what is A \ 0 ? in Gimp it is