Re: [Gimp-developer] rectangle select tool specification
First off, fantastic job on the new tool. I think it is great and have no great complaints about its implementation. FWIW, I would mildly desire integer-only aspect ratios and I would greatly desire having the "make square" and "expand from center" options be available as key modifiers. One thing I noticed is that for the "subtract" and "intersect" modes (whether attained through the Mode buttons or through key modifiers), The marching ants of the currently drawn area become a solid line whereas for the "replace" and "add" modes they remain marching ants (this is true for both the Rectangular and Elliptical tools). Perhaps there is a very useful reason for this behavior, I just found it anomalous. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification
Juhana Sadeharju wrote: In some other editor, the rectangle can be modified only by grabbing the 8 handles located at the corners and at the middle of edges. (That is an unnecessary limitation.) The handles may confuse users if really the grabbing can be done by clicking in anywhere on the edge. (That is the preferred way to do it since the first interactive graphics system was written.) The handles should be removed. The "handles" aren't really handles like they are in many other software packages where you have to grab them to adjust the size of a selection. In 2.3/CVS GIMP, the "handles" are four (yes, only four) tiny squares which appear in the inside corners of the selection. This provides a visual cue that the selection area can be altered. You need this cue since it is easy to toggle a selection between a fixed and alterable state. When a selection is editable you move the cursor near an edge or corner of the selction. When you are close to the edge or corner the cursor changes to indicate that you can move that edge or corner of the selection (once you hold the left-mouse button down and drag that is). I think this is a much easier method of resizing a selection than having to grab one of the 8 little handles that are used in most other programs. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/ |"What are we going to do today, Borg?" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172|"Same thing we always do, Pinkutus: | Try to assimilate the world!" #include| -Pinkutus & the Borg ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] rectangle select tool specification
Tim Jedlicka wrote: you click inside an existing selection, then a new, modifiable rectangular selection is created, whose bounds are just large enough to completely enclose the previous selection. Found it! Thanks, Tim. For some reason I missed that the other day or else I didn't realize it would crop to the current selection. Now I see that information appears in the pop-up tooltop for the menu entry. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/ |"What are we going to do today, Borg?" Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172|"Same thing we always do, Pinkutus: | Try to assimilate the world!" #include| -Pinkutus & the Borg ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] on moving toward a 2.4 release
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Robert L Krawitz wrote: >GIMP 2.0 was released on March 23, 2004, and then GIMP 2.2 on >December 19, 2004. This was a 9 month release cycle, which is >quite reasonable. Howver, it has been over a year and a half since >the 2.2 release, and we are still not visibly nearing a 2.4 >release. This slow progress is holding up important things, >including, especially, GEGL integration. What can be done? > > Compared with us (Gutenprint), that's still positively speedy. Compared to Debian stable ... life cycle of Giant turtles ... etc. The longer the cycle continues without a release the more often users get told thing are fixed in CVS or the unstable branch but if they are not sure what they are doing then they should not use the unstable branch for important work. > If GEGL integration really is a hard problem, it's going to come out a > lot better if you take the time to do it right rather than rushing it. If I remember the dicussions correctly 2.4 was planned, to be followed by the integration of the Google summer of code results and then GEGL after that. Where you suggest more 2.2 releases more 2.4 was what was previously suggested. -- Alan H. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification
>From: "William Skaggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The (New) Rectangle Select Tool [ ... ] >An important different from the old tool is that the >rectangle you get is modifiable, as indicated by handles at the >corners. You should be able to click on any corner or edge and drag >it -- the cursor should change to indicate when dragging is possible. What the handles do in the tool? In some other editor, the rectangle can be modified only by grabbing the 8 handles located at the corners and at the middle of edges. (That is an unnecessary limitation.) The handles may confuse users if really the grabbing can be done by clicking in anywhere on the edge. (That is the preferred way to do it since the first interactive graphics system was written.) The handles should be removed. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp Perspective Clone Tool
On 8/12/06, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually... For your tool to work similarly to the clone tool and perspective tool, I just realized it MUST be able to disable interpolation. Otherwise it doesn't work on INDEXED images (have you tried it on an indexed image yet?) I just tried it on an indexed image.. It generally looks fairly messy (where interpolation occurs, off-colors (somewhat mismatched -- like the right brightness but wrong hue, etc..) usually appear) Though, after messing around for a while, I admit I have little idea how to effectively employ the perspective clone tool.I noticed that the alpha channel is not handled yet (meaning that cloning 'empty' pixels results in arbitrary colors appearing) Btw, I have added the same options for paint that are used in clone tool, That looks good; consider taking out the 'pattern' vs 'image' choice if you can, unless you plan on supporting perspective cloning of patterns. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
