Re: [Gimp-developer] Annoying behavior of shared settings for file save plug-ins

2007-08-30 Thread Jakub Friedl
I said when the new changes were being discussed that the use image file quality unless defaults are 'better' was a bad way to go. I think that use image file quality unless defaults are 'better' is not thee problem. Problem is inheriting image quality between different images in one GIMP

Re: [Gimp-developer] Annoying behavior of shared settings for file save plug-ins

2007-08-30 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
These are the best words I've heard on UI. A program cannot decide what is better for me because _I_have_not_told_it what _I_need_. This is a principle - it should be up to user, not a program. In a most common case of saving jpeg files I would like to be able to do via advanced mode: 1. See

Re: [Gimp-developer] Annoying behavior of shared settings for file save plug-ins

2007-08-30 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:57:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gimp should not decide what is better because it cannot know what is required so cannot make that choice. This sort of surprise behaviour is precisely the kind of thing I was warning against in making covert changes to user

[Gimp-developer] I would like to write a GAP user manual

2007-08-30 Thread Patrick
Hi Everyone This is my first post here. My programming skills are still a little weak but I was hoping I could contribute by helping to write the Gimp GAP user manual. With a 1 1/2 year old child and a 1 1/2 year old business I don't have too much time. Things will go slow. I can however

Re: [Gimp-developer] Annoying behavior of shared settings for file save plug-ins

2007-08-30 Thread gg
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:07:40 +0200, Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:57:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gimp should not decide what is better because it cannot know what is required so cannot make that choice. This sort of surprise behaviour is precisely

Re: [Gimp-developer] I would like to write a GAP user manual

2007-08-30 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:46:44AM -0400, Patrick wrote: Hi Everyone This is my first post here. My programming skills are still a little weak but I was hoping I could contribute by helping to write the Gimp GAP user manual. With a 1 1/2 year old child and a 1 1/2 year old business I

[Gimp-developer] Where all developers are?

2007-08-30 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
Last I mailed it was said that there are not that many GIMP developers. Where are all image processing application developers have gone? Is there some other open source image manipulation software which sucks all the developers? In recent years Siggraph conference proceedings have had more image

Re: [Gimp-developer] Annoying behavior of shared settings for file save plug-ins

2007-08-30 Thread Scott
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:56:33AM +0200, Jakub Friedl wrote: I think that use image file quality unless defaults are 'better' is not thee problem. Problem is inheriting image quality between different images in one GIMP session. I have a default quality of 85. Then I open DSLR image with

Re: [Gimp-developer] Annoying behavior of shared settings for file save plug-ins

2007-08-30 Thread gg
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:56:16 +0200, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:56:33AM +0200, Jakub Friedl wrote: I think that use image file quality unless defaults are 'better' is not thee problem. Problem is inheriting image quality between different images in one GIMP

Re: [Gimp-developer] Annoying behavior of shared settings for file save plug-ins

2007-08-30 Thread Scott
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 12:19:23AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what you describe could be put under Save as. It is not Save though. Probably misusing the defaults. You're right, of course. Doh. I always use save as. And it works fine for my purposes (other than the save-to