Re: [Gimp-developer] Switch to Tiny-Fu, end of Script-Fu maintenance?

2006-10-13 Thread Kevin Cozens
Raphaël Quinet wrote: Anybody who tries to apply these patches would be well advised to pay close attention to the README file first. I had updated the README file and the scripts.patch file last night but had not uploaded the new versions to the web site. The new files have now been uploaded

Re: [Gimp-developer] Switch to Tiny-Fu, end of Script-Fu maintenance?

2006-10-13 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:42:25 -0400, Kevin Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My source tree of CVS GIMP now contains a Tiny-Fu'd version of Script-Fu. The > changes are available as patch files ready to be reviewed. I am now waiting on > a final ok before the changes will be commited to CVS. Cons

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-13 Thread Øyvind Kolås
* Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061013 23:09]: On 10/13/06, Øyvind Kolås <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://pippin.gimp.org/tmp/search-menu.gif contains a recorded >animation of the UI elements I've been using. I did not understand what is the purpose of the interface in the animation. I s

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-13 Thread Philip Ganchev
On 10/13/06, Øyvind Kolås <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] I guess you should have a menu or a similar interface in addition/tandem with a query interface. Yes, that's what I am suggesting. I do think the that the menu is unnecessary. For example, see the Archy project, started by user interfa

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-13 Thread Scott
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:19:29AM +0200, Michael Natterer wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 01:04 +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > No. You don't want to look at emacs code. Really. Such an interface is > easy enough to implement, should we ever decide to want it. I seriously > doubt its usefulln

Re: [Gimp-developer] Switch to Tiny-Fu, end of Script-Fu maintenance?

2006-10-13 Thread Kevin Cozens
Sven Neumann wrote: Fine with me. But I was assuming that the scripts are identical anyway. If you prefer to use the ones in Tiny-Fu, you will have to make sure that you incorporate the recent changes, in particular the blurb review. I tried using the Script-Fu scripts and immediately ran in to

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-13 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On 10/12/06, Philip Ganchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. I have a suggestion for a new and simple way to interact with GIMP. A major difficulty in using GIMP, in my experience, is that the menus are too many and too deep. To invoke an action on an image, or to open a dialog box, the user spe

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-13 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Michael Natterer writes: > No. You don't want to look at emacs code. Really. While talking about Emacsish features, one feature I often miss in GUI apps is something equivalent to Emacs's C-h c (describe-key-briefly). I.e., a way to find out what a certain keypress does. The main use case for

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-13 Thread Michael Natterer
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 01:04 +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Philip Ganchev wrote: > > On 10/12/06, Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The two major use cases when this would be a more efficient interface is > >> for us GIMPers who already know what functionality they want and don't