Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Suggestion on how to deal with obsolete data resources

2009-08-12 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Martin Nordholts wrote: [cut] then run GIMP and look at the brushes in the UI. Only the largest Circle* brushes are available. But you can still execute File - Create - Logos - Frosty.. which uses Circle Fuzzy (11). Any comments on the proposed way to deal with obsolete resources?

[Gimp-developer] Layers and possible space for performance improvement in GIMP

2009-08-12 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Hello, A few days ago I was trying out Adobe Photoshop CS4 under my OS, Windows 7 RC 64 bit, and although I prefer using GIMP even though it lacks some very useful features, I was surprised at one thing in particular: its speed when many layers are used (20-25+, and on very complex works I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Layers and possible space for performance improvement in GIMP

2009-08-12 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: SHIRAKAWA Akira shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com What I wonder is if GIMP could someday get advantage dynamically, automatically and in a transparent manner to the user of autocropping extra borders from layers (without manual intervention) in order improve performance when large canvases

Re: [Gimp-developer] Layers and possible space for performance improvement in GIMP

2009-08-12 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
Michael Schumacher wrote: There's a long discussion about this in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93639 I'm not sure how much of this will change within a GEGL tree, so parts of this discussion could already be obsolete. Ah, thanks for linking that discussion. So this was already

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Suggestion on how to deal with obsolete data resources

2009-08-12 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 20:45 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: It has already been concluded that we want to get rid of a few data resources for GIMP 2.8 and also that this requires a mechanism to support backwards compatibility for scripts that uses the soon-to-be-removed resources.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Layers and possible space for performance improvement in GIMP

2009-08-12 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 18:04 +0200, SHIRAKAWA Akira wrote: (note that I'm using an Intel Core 2 Duo 3.16 Ghz E8500 processor with 4 GB RAM). How is your tile-cache size configured? If it is still at the default value of 1GB, then you are not making best use of your hardware and its not

[Gimp-developer] Development in Gentoo

2009-08-12 Thread Christopher Howard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Is there anyone here doing GIMP development inside Gentoo? I very recently switched my development machine over from Debian to Gentoo. At the Gentoo forums they showed me how to use the overlays to get glib-2.21.4, but I didn't see an overlay for

Re: [Gimp-developer] Development in Gentoo

2009-08-12 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Wednesday 12 August 2009 12:19:29 Christopher Howard wrote: Hi. Is there anyone here doing GIMP development inside Gentoo? I very recently switched my development machine over from Debian to Gentoo. At the Gentoo forums they showed me how to use the overlays to get glib-2.21.4, but I didn't

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Suggestion on how to deal with obsolete data resources

2009-08-12 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 08/12/2009 08:50 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 20:45 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: It has already been concluded that we want to get rid of a few data resources for GIMP 2.8 and also that this requires a mechanism to support backwards compatibility for scripts that