On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 08:19:16PM -0300, Pedro Kiefer wrote:
I've just made this mockup (attached) of how the locking mechanism
should appear to the user in the layers tab. But that could be wrong, in
not really familiar with the GNOME HIG. Clicking in an unlocked lock
will lock the layer,
Hi,
Nathan Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I used to have a co-worker that would often say that if a user can't
find a feature, it doesn't exist. Even after rummaging through the
code with grep for a few minutes, the only menu I can find that allows
you to import an SVG is the one that
Hi,
Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I also think that it will clutter the rows too much if we move it to
the front. Perhaps consider to add it on the top of the dialog with
the opacity slider and the Lock Alpha Channel toggle ?
I don't think this is practical. In Skencil I use locking
Simon Budig wrote:
Also we should consider making the layers not selectable in the layers
dialog if they are locked. This removes a source of confusion (why
doesn't this work) and gives immediate additional feedback about the
locking.
I was about to suggest this myself, but then dismissed
Sven Neumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I also think that it will clutter the rows too much if we move it to
the front. Perhaps consider to add it on the top of the dialog with
the opacity slider and the Lock Alpha Channel toggle ?
I don't think
Michael Schumacher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also we should consider making the layers not selectable in the layers
dialog if they are locked. This removes a source of confusion (why
doesn't this work) and gives immediate additional feedback about the
locking.
I was about to suggest
Simon Budig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Sven Neumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Well, we do that already for the alpha channel lock and it doesn't
seem to work that badly. Sooner or later we will probably want to add
more such toggles.
actually the alpha channel lock is a major source of
Hi,
Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With your proposed solution it would be a major PITA to do this.
I didn't propose a solution, I only said that moving the toggle
elsewhere should be considerd. I am not at all convinced it is a
good idea. But then, IIRC, PS does it this way.
Since we
Hi,
for your inspiration, heres a slightly outdated screenshot of the PS
user interface for layer locking:
http://www.edigitalphoto.com/images/archivesart/0203edp_using_02.jpg
This PDF has a lot more screenshots and shows a more uptodate view of
the Layers dialog on page 23:
Sven Neumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With your proposed solution it would be a major PITA to do this.
I didn't propose a solution, I only said that moving the toggle
elsewhere should be considerd. I am not at all convinced it is a
good idea. But
lode leroy wrote:
Ah, now it starts up, and the Python-fu is there... yippee!
It should do so now out of the box, at least in current CVS... maybe
except for the interp file, but we should be able to fix this today.
And now lets hope some autotools-wizard can deduce from this mail what
needs
On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:17:46 +0200
From: Thorsten Wilms [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Layer locking proposal
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 08:19:16PM -0300, Pedro Kiefer wrote:
I've just
On 25.06.2005, at 11:53, Sven Neumann wrote:
You could start by making a nice proposal, perhaps including a mockup
of how the user interface for this should look like and how it should
behave.
I guess Pedro has seen the Photoshop interface which does pretty
much that (and more).
Servus,
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2005-06-26 at 1517.52 +0200):
This PDF has a lot more screenshots and shows a more uptodate view of
the Layers dialog on page 23:
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/ib-pdf-02/vqs-chapter01.pdf
Interesting, it shows things on both sides, and one of the front is
Sven,
I did look at the PS user interface for layers before doing the mockup.
In the other message you've said:
I am sorry, but you can't put the lock at the end of the row. It would
become invisible as soon as one layer has a longer name.
Couldn't that be solved by ellipsizing the layer name? I
Hi,
Pedro Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I did look at the PS user interface for layers before doing the
mockup. In the other message you've said: I am sorry, but you
can't put the lock at the end of the row. It would become invisible
as soon as one layer has a longer name. Couldn't that
Hi,
Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok, replace proposed solution with suggested placement of the button
or whatever. Do you have an example use case where the user would
benefit from that placement?
Alice and Bob are looking for the layer named Foobar.
Due to the introduction of
On Sunday, June 26, 2005, 15:17:52, Sven Neumann wrote:
for your inspiration, heres a slightly outdated screenshot of the PS
user interface for layer locking:
Here's how PaintShopPro handles the layers dialog:
http://deeperthought.ena.si/misc/psplayers.png
The buttons at top are for new
On Sunday 26 June 2005 11:19, Michael Schumacher wrote:
lode leroy wrote:
Ah, now it starts up, and the Python-fu is there... yippee!
It should do so now out of the box, at least in current CVS...
maybe except for the interp file, but we should be able to fix this
today.
On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 12:59 -0300, Pedro Kiefer wrote:
Sven,
I did look at the PS user interface for layers before doing the mockup.
In the other message you've said:
I am sorry, but you can't put the lock at the end of the row. It would
become invisible as soon as one layer has a longer
Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote:
On Sunday 26 June 2005 11:19, Michael Schumacher wrote:
If you want to continue to work on scripting, and get even more
scripting languages to GIMP on the windows plattform, there is
gimp-perl, some java classes, a ruby binding and iirc even
something for
On Sunday 26 June 2005 13:48, Sven Neumann wrote:
Hi,
Well, it is up to the user to name the layers and I don't think we
should make it harder to use long names. In general it is better to
allow list views to scroll horizontally instead of trying to
shorten the content to make it fit into
Hi,
Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If we want to have all the lock types that PS offers, we would have
to add three new toggles to the layer row. Is that feasible?
kkk...
I thought of three different states for the lock Icon (and a nice
tooltip, of course).
Hi,
Pedro Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As a follow up to my own message, here is another mockup. The lock on
the far right of the list would disable the lock for the given layer, so
you don't have to change to that particular layer to change it's status.
The checkboxs under the opacity
Sven Neumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok, replace proposed solution with suggested placement of the button
or whatever. Do you have an example use case where the user would
benefit from that placement?
Alice and Bob are looking for the layer named
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