Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread pcg
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:40:37AM +0200, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Perhaps you should stop looking at the dialog and just blindly enter
> paths. It works surprisingly well.

I just told you that this is not true.

Then you told me you'd not ignore complaints.

Now you tell me what I should do instead and that it would work "surprisingly
well."

I don't know what "I am smoking", but this very compaint has come up a number
of times, and your only reaction is to talk it down.

No, it does not at all work surprisingly well. It is *extremely* slow, it
hinders, it flickers, it destroys the selection, it pops up a window. It
feels like an ugly kludge and certainly does not wor "surprisingly well".

But you should know that.

We can argue wether it works "surprisingly well" because it's not clear
what it means. To me, this surprisingly well working input is an annoyance
and slow-down compared to the simple and fast gtk+1.0 selector. Just
compare it to your typical shell: path input time: very few seconds. gtk+:
ranging form 5+ seconds to minutes (not counting the time it takes to open
the dialog). And no flickering in the shell, no extra popups and it does
not even destroy your selection.

Obvously, the very term "surprisingly well" is meaningless because other
people have different definitons for what works well.

And you keep ignoring this. Really. Maybe you just don't understand it. I
don't know. I am 100% sure it's not malice!

One thing is that people, and _many_ people, just want their location
entry back, for lots of reasons: discoverability, pastability and so
on. But for some reason this simply does not happen.

This is an example where lots of people continually *are* being ignored
because the new design is supposedly better.

> There's no such atttitude. The new file chooser has bugs and they need
> to be fixed. Asking us to revert to the old widget is however not an
> option.

That might be true, but *if* the old widget was better for the users it
should be reverted, no question to be asked. Again, there is an *if* in
that sentence.

(Also, I really don't see the many bugs. I see misdesign, but I would not
call that a bug. There were design decisions involved, and these might be
good for some uses and bad for others. At least the problems I have with
the dialogs do not seem to be bugs at all, but simply design decisions).

I often heard argumnts like "it was a lot of work to design and
implement", but there is a logical fallacy in that (a red herring): no
matter how much work it was, if the result is bad, it is bad.

(Now, there are probably good sides to the new file dialog, but none of
the new features mean anything to me, so for me it is only negative).

You also said file dialogs should go away (in some distant future) and
people should use drag&drop. This is another very bad way to force
unnatural (for some) workflow on people: for one thing, drag&drop
doesn't work very wlel under X, for another thing it is quite difficult
to actually "drag&drop" while prpessing your mouse button for some
people. Even I who can easily do drga&drop find for example the selection
much easier, because I can do things in etween and do not have to press
hte button all the time, which improves my aim.

The new file dialog gets more and more byzantine, without offering the
simple and effective interface that the old dialog. Now I hear in the long
term people should switch from it completey.

That is the wrong direction, IMHO.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Marc wrote:

> One thing is that people, and _many_ people, just want their location
> entry back, for lots of reasons: discoverability, pastability and so
> on. But for some reason this simply does not happen.

Do you want this only in gimp or in all programs that use the gtk+ 
widgets and dialogs?

I think the gtk dialog can be made better and should be improved for all 
applications, not just gimp.

Things I don't like: 

* In fedora 3 I can type in a filename and it selects that file in the
file tree view and it just works. It does not work with full paths so I
either have to navigate to the correct directory first (which I usually do
using a bookmark) or have to use the hidden feature of Ctrl-L (almost
never do this). If one fixes so one can type in any path directly, and not
just filenames in the current selected dir, then the Ctrl-L is not needed
anymore.

* The file tree view does not always have input focus when the dialog is
opened. So sometimes when I type in a filename the focus is in the
bookmark part of the dialog and it matches a bookmark instead. Also, some
keys to fast give bookmarks and filelist input focus would be nice (and
:ing to the right widget is too much work).


I've not filed any bugs for the above and I don't know if maybe this have
already been improved in later versions of gtk+ then what's in FC3.  It's
simply not a big enough problem for me that I've done that but I still 
would want these things to be improved.

The battle for you to fight is with gtk2 and not with gimp. If gimp
started to use another dialog then what other gtk2 programs did, then
people would start a fight about that.

I also think that some of you in this thread are unfair to Sven. From my
point of view he tries to help as much as he can.

For you reverting to the old dialog is a solution, for me that would make
the dialog a lot worse. I love the bookmark feature. I usually just use a
couple of directories in total and I have these as bookmarks.

Currently not everyone is happy with the new dialog but hopefully it can
be improved so most of us are happy in the future. If not, then what do 
you suggest? Either way you choose someone will be unhappy.

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Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ

2005-06-20 Thread jernej
On Monday, June 20, 2005, 0:40:37, Sven Neumann wrote:

> Perhaps you should stop looking at the dialog and just blindly enter
> paths. It works surprisingly well.

Not on Windows, and you still have to confirm your selection twice.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread Robert L Krawitz
   Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:14:03 +0200 (CEST)
   From: Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Marc wrote:

   > One thing is that people, and _many_ people, just want their location
   > entry back, for lots of reasons: discoverability, pastability and so
   > on. But for some reason this simply does not happen.

   Do you want this only in gimp or in all programs that use the gtk+
   widgets and dialogs?

Obviously this is a GTK2 issue.

   Currently not everyone is happy with the new dialog but hopefully
   it can be improved so most of us are happy in the future. If not,
   then what do you suggest? Either way you choose someone will be
   unhappy.

Adding a simple file (text) entry box with tab completion (and a
preference to turn on autocompletion) would, IMHO, solve virtually all
of the problems.  People who don't like using text entry boxes
wouldn't have to use it.  The ctrl-L popup has lots of problems; not
only is it not apparent how to get to it (there's nothing that points
at ctrl-L), but it's very clumsy to use (you have to type ctrl-L, type
in the filename -- while having to deal with its quirks -- and then
click OK twice).

And no, bookmarks are NOT a complete solution to this.  I have
probably 200 bookmarks in Firefox (for example), and finding the right
bookmark in the list takes a while (I have to scan through the list
and find the one I want).  As far as images go, I currently have about
70 directories with images (65 subdirectories for my digital camera,
and some miscellaneous ones).  The camera ones have 100-200 each (in a
lot of cases I have two copies of each image, one the JPEG file
extracted from the raw image and another one converted using my
hacked-up dcraw), and a couple of the others have 1000 each.
Navigating through all of this is a real pain; the ones I'm most
interested in I simply memorize.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Robert L Krawitz wrote:

> Adding a simple file (text) entry box with tab completion (and a
> preference to turn on autocompletion) would, IMHO, solve virtually all
> of the problems.

Or just make the current system work better. In my installation you can 
type in a filename, one just need to add tab-completion to it and make it 
support full paths. For example, I want to just be able to type /tmp and 
press enter and then the dialog changes to that dir. I can't do that 
today.

As I said, I don't know what happend in later versions of gtk then what is
in FC3, it might already be improved (you can always hope :-).

> The ctrl-L popup has lots of problems; not only is it not apparent how
> to get to it (there's nothing that points at ctrl-L), but it's very
> clumsy to use (you have to type ctrl-L, type in the filename -- while
> having to deal with its quirks -- and then click OK twice).

No one say that the CTRL-L is any good. It's just a workaround for those
of us that are used to tab completion, until we have something better. I 
hope it can work as explained above in the future.
 
> and find the one I want).  As far as images go, I currently have about
> 70 directories with images (65 subdirectories for my digital camera,
> and some miscellaneous ones).

Maybe you need one bookmark to the parent and not 65 bookmarks to all 
subdirectories,

> Navigating through all of this is a real pain; the ones I'm most
> interested in I simply memorize.

Right, and I make bookmarks of the places I use the most.

Anyway, what I said was just that going back to the old dialog removes the
bookmark feature that I use a lot. So no matter if you use the new or old
dialog one of us will be unhappy. Not that going back seems to be an 
option, but if it was I would be against it.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread John Cupitt
On 6/20/05, Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> 
> > Adding a simple file (text) entry box with tab completion (and a
> > preference to turn on autocompletion) would, IMHO, solve virtually all
> > of the problems.
> 
> Or just make the current system work better. In my installation you can
> type in a filename, one just need to add tab-completion to it and make it
> support full paths. For example, I want to just be able to type /tmp and
> press enter and then the dialog changes to that dir. I can't do that
> today.
> 
> As I said, I don't know what happend in later versions of gtk then what is
> in FC3, it might already be improved (you can always hope :-).

Yes, this works fine the the current gtk2, although with drop-down
completion rather than tab completion.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread Robert L Krawitz
   Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:59:44 +0200 (CEST)
   From: Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   > The ctrl-L popup has lots of problems; not only is it not
   > apparent how to get to it (there's nothing that points at
   > ctrl-L), but it's very clumsy to use (you have to type ctrl-L,
   > type in the filename -- while having to deal with its quirks --
   > and then click OK twice).

   No one say that the CTRL-L is any good. It's just a workaround for
   those of us that are used to tab completion, until we have
   something better. I hope it can work as explained above in the
   future.

Unless they've changed it further, you still don't have the text entry
box visible.

   > and find the one I want).  As far as images go, I currently have
   > about 70 directories with images (65 subdirectories for my
   > digital camera, and some miscellaneous ones).

   Maybe you need one bookmark to the parent and not 65 bookmarks to
   all subdirectories,

I don't really need bookmarks at all for this.  I simply want to type

/images/dcim/138canon/crw_3888.jpg

(to identify a particularly interesting photo of a sunset in Bermuda,
for example) without the dialog trying to "helpfully" (and slowly)
autocomplete through all of that mess and without having to open a
second, modal dialog (I thought that modal dialogs are supposed to be
really bad juju?).

Actually, the more common issue I deal with as Gutenprint lead
developer is that I print an image named "colors4.tif" to a file
(usually I name it /tmp/b.prn).  I then run a command named "unprint"
to generate a .pnm file from the output:

unprint < /tmp/b.prn > /tmp/b.pnm

following which I want to inspect that file (to see the effect that
changes I've made to the Gutenprint source have made certain changes
to the output, without having to waste a lot of ink and paper).  The
problem here is that colors4.tif lives in /images, so if I open a file
from that context, I'm in /images whereas I really want to open a file
in /tmp (as you can guess, a file named /tmp/b.pnm can be opened very
quickly with 11 keystrokes if the dialog doesn't get in my way).

A variation I might do is to look at just one color plane.  While
working on the Epson Stylus Photo R800 with its red and "blue" inks,
for example, I might want to see the effect that changes in this code
have on the red ink generation:

unprint -m 100 < /tmp/b.prn > /tmp/b100.pnm

or even

for f in 1 2 4 8 100 200 ; do unprint -m $f < /tmp/b.prn > /tmp/b$f.pnm

to get individual PNM's of each color plane separately (needless to
say, I don't retype that command each time; I use ctrl-p in bash for
that purpose).  Since /tmp is usually full of all kinds of garbage,
scrolling around in there in the new dialog isn't much fun.  I
sometimes use Cinepaint (taking the hit in extra memory consumption
from having both the GIMP and Cinepaint running at the same time) to
view these files just because the GTK2 dialog is so unwieldly for my
purpose.

Again: adding a simple text entry box for the filename, with tab
completion but not autocompletion, would entirely solve my problem
here!

   > Navigating through all of this is a real pain; the ones I'm most
   > interested in I simply memorize.

   Right, and I make bookmarks of the places I use the most.

   Anyway, what I said was just that going back to the old dialog
   removes the bookmark feature that I use a lot. So no matter if you
   use the new or old dialog one of us will be unhappy. Not that going
   back seems to be an option, but if it was I would be against it.

I have no problem with bookmarks, but I just don't think they're a
panacea.  The reason I mentioned bookmarks is that the various bug
reports, mailing list discussions, etc. seem to promote bookmarks
heavily.  For my purpose (at least with the GIMP) they're not useful.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Robert L Krawitz wrote:

> Again: adding a simple text entry box for the filename, with tab
> completion but not autocompletion, would entirely solve my problem
> here!

And I would be happy if you could enter these things in the entry box that 
pop up when you just start to type.

Maybe one should do some hacking and simply make some LD_PRELOAD hack that 
replaces the dialog in gtk with almost the same one but with an entry 
box added. Not very pretty but it could help some people.. Maybe a project 
for someone to play with during some lonely weekend.

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GTK+ File Chooser on MS windows (was: Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ)

2005-06-20 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> On Monday, June 20, 2005, 0:40:37, Sven Neumann wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps you should stop looking at the dialog and just blindly enter
> > paths. It works surprisingly well.
> 
> Not on Windows, and you still have to confirm your selection twice.

Maybe we can at least turn a part of this thread into something useful

Jernej, I couldn't reproduce your problem with the bookmarks on windows -
they work just fine for me. And your current description is a bit too vague,
too - there might be problems and needed improvements, but it's impossible
to determine what you're referring to.

We should probably take this to a GTK+ list, but first I'd like to figure
out why the file chooser seems to work fine on my system and not on yours.


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[Gimp-developer] Re: GTK+ File Chooser on MS windows

2005-06-20 Thread jernej
On Monday, June 20, 2005, 15:22:12, Michael Schumacher wrote:

>>> Perhaps you should stop looking at the dialog and just blindly enter
>>> paths. It works surprisingly well.
>> Not on Windows, and you still have to confirm your selection twice.
> Jernej, I couldn't reproduce your problem with the bookmarks on windows -
> they work just fine for me. And your current description is a bit too vague,
> too - there might be problems and needed improvements, but it's impossible
> to determine what you're referring to.

My comment was about the absolute paths actually - on Linux, Ctrl+L dialog
is triggered by the / key, too, but this (for obvious reasons) doesn't work
on Windows.

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[Gimp-developer] Re: GTK+ File Chooser on MS windows

2005-06-20 Thread Tor Lillqvist
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 > is triggered by the / key, too, but this (for obvious reasons) doesn't work
 > on Windows.

Actually, it does, at least for me, with GIMP 2.2 and GTK+ 2.6.8.
Although if you need to enter a drive letter, after typing the slash,
you have to backspace once to erase it, type the drive letter, colon,
slash (or backslash), etc. Tab completion works, but you do have to
press enter twice after arriving at the file you want. I could try to
check if it would be easy to make a colon following a single letter
bring up the path entry dialog.

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Re: [Gimp-developer] GTK+ File Chooser on MS windows

2005-06-20 Thread jernej
On Monday, June 20, 2005, 18:42:56, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

>> is triggered by the / key, too, but this (for obvious reasons) doesn't work
>> on Windows.
> Actually, it does, at least for me, with GIMP 2.2 and GTK+ 2.6.8.

It doesn't for me - either it does nothing, or shows the textbox under a
listbox if focus is there. (Gimp 2.2.7 and GTK+ 2.6.8)

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Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread pcg
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:14:03AM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> > One thing is that people, and _many_ people, just want their location
> > entry back, for lots of reasons: discoverability, pastability and so
> > on. But for some reason this simply does not happen.
> 
> Do you want this only in gimp or in all programs that use the gtk+ 
> widgets and dialogs?

My understanding is that the dialog (mostly) resides in gtk+, and yes, I
would want this functionality everywhere.

> I think the gtk dialog can be made better and should be improved for all 
> applications, not just gimp.

Agree.

> * In fedora 3 I can type in a filename and it selects that file in the
> file tree view and it just works. It does not work with full paths so I

At leats in gtk+-2.6 (probably earlier, too), you can start typing the path
and a location window will pop up. For absolute paths, start with "/".

> never do this). If one fixes so one can type in any path directly, and not
> just filenames in the current selected dir, then the Ctrl-L is not needed
> anymore.

That should be done in gtk+-2.6 already.

> * The file tree view does not always have input focus when the dialog is
> opened. So sometimes when I type in a filename the focus is in the
> bookmark part of the dialog and it matches a bookmark instead.

I guess if the focus is that inconsistent you should check wether it's still
behaving that way in gtk+-2.6 and report it as a bug if it is.

> I've not filed any bugs for the above and I don't know if maybe this have
> already been improved in later versions of gtk+ then what's in FC3.  It's
> simply not a big enough problem for me that I've done that but I still 
> would want these things to be improved.

Well, eventually newer versins will arrive at your desktop. If you report it
by then that should be fine. The more annoying a problem is the earlier it
will be reported (and, unfortunately more often).

> The battle for you to fight is with gtk2 and not with gimp. If gimp
> started to use another dialog then what other gtk2 programs did, then
> people would start a fight about that.

I'm not trying to battle with either the gimp or gtk+. I am trying to
battle the continuous attitude of neglecting that there are problems for
some users.

My understanding here is that the new file dialog has nice features that
improve it for many users. I am willing to pay the price of having a less
optimal interface in favour of supporting "most" (hopefully) other users.

The reasoning is that I often have a different workflow than "the majority"
so what's good for me is not necessarily good for others. One could change
behaviou base don some preferences, but that would priarily be my job to
code. As long as I don't code it as I want it, I cannot complain that others
don't do it for me.

I think I can complain, however, whe other people claim that problems don't
exist.

> For you reverting to the old dialog is a solution,
   
If I think about it, yes, that would be by far the best solution for me.
   
> for me that would make
> the dialog a lot worse.

I am fully aware of some features beign useful to others. That's why I always
and clearly wrote "me" when refering to the usefulness of any such features.

> be improved so most of us are happy in the future. If not, then what do 
> you suggest? Either way you choose someone will be unhappy.

No, you can still go the preferences way and support both (or more) UI
interactions. I am not complaining about missing code, I am merely
complaining about neglecting that problems exist repeatedly, which
unncessarily drives people mad.

The most negative side effect of such comments is that you get endless
threads on the issue: every comment of the style "it works" will provoke
reactions like "no, it doesn't."

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Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GTK+ File Chooser on MS windows

2005-06-20 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> My comment was about the absolute paths actually - on Linux, Ctrl+L dialog
> is triggered by the / key, too, but this (for obvious reasons) doesn't work
> on Windows.

Wouldn't it be nice if the same text entry widget used by the treeview 
when you type "abc" also be used if you type "/tmp". If it also could 
support tab completion then all is solved and we would not need the CTRL-L 
dialog.

In the end of course someone that want it bad enough have to sit down with 
the code.

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Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ

2005-06-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Would a simple "push-pin" toggle control to optionally stick the
> default configuration one way or the other be difficult to
> implement?

I'd even say that it is impossible to implement.


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: FileSave dialog

2005-06-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> English sucks. My brain twitched a fair bit trying to parse that, so
> I'm going to re-word it as:
>
> I don't mind typing when there is no indication of any place
> to type, but as soon as I start typing I would like some
> feedback in case I make a mistake.

But you get feedback, pretty clear feedback even. What's your point?


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Re: [Gimp-developer] FAQ (-: sooner or later :-) KDEification of GIMP

2005-06-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

<[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann )> writes:

> I don't know what "I am smoking", but this very compaint has come up
> a number of times, and your only reaction is to talk it down.

That is a blatant lie. The reaction to these concerns is that me and
other GIMP developers have spent a lot of our free time discussing
these concern with Federico and other GTK+ developers, entering bug
reports and writing patches to fix them. The fact that you completely
ignore this and stick to your lies is becoming rather insulting.

> No, it does not at all work surprisingly well. It is *extremely*
> slow, it hinders, it flickers, it destroys the selection, it pops up
> a window. It feels like an ugly kludge and certainly does not wor
> "surprisingly well".

I cannot reproduce most of your problems. At least not from this
description. If you want to be taken seriously, then please come up
with serious descriptions and make sure that comprehensive and useful
bug reports exist for them.

> You also said file dialogs should go away (in some distant future) and
> people should use drag&drop.

You misunderstood me. I didn't say that DND is going to replace file
choosers. I said that sooner or later most people will not even know
about the concept of hierarchical file systems. That doesn't mean that
they will be dragging in files from file managers. File managers will
also cease to exist (at least for a large user group).


Sven
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