Re: [Gimp-developer] GAP Export?

2008-01-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 16:22 -0500, Andy Berdan wrote: I've been investigating some animation systems for use at work here, and I was wondering about exporting names and locations of layers in the animation. I am not sure if Wolfgang Hofer, the author of GAP follows this mailing-list. You

Re: [Gimp-developer] GAP Export?

2008-01-16 Thread saulgoode
The information about layer offsets in a frame sequence is not made readily available and a plug-in would need to be written (and, IMO, it would be simpler to write a Script run in batch mode). Also, once an object has been added to a frame sequence, GIMP only knows the offsets and extents

[Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources such as brushes, gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread William Skaggs
One of the most important usability problems with Gimp is the inability to organize resources such as brushes, gradients, patterns, and palettes. For each of these, you can designate a set of folders in Preferences, but everything inside those folders is automatically loaded at startup, and

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources such as brushes, gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread Alexia Death
At the level of programming, the only relatively difficult thing is to create the GimpDataChooser widget. Even this is simple in principle, although complicated in practice because it involves a lot of rather complex Gimp code. I have been experimenting with writing a Chooser, and I

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources such as brushes, gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 17:03 +, William Skaggs wrote: This problem has been discussed several times in the past, and proposals have been made about how to address it. I have been thinking about it recently, and have come up with a somewhat different, and I believe simpler approach,

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources such as brushes, gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread William Skaggs
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right. We have discussed this in the past and we have come up with a simple and IMO very good solution that has several advantages over the approach that you are suggesting now. The solution is to allow tags to be assigned to data files. This allows the

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources s uch as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:42, William Skaggs wrote: This mixes together two separate issues.  Tags are, as I have already agreed, an excellent way of doing a search mechanism.  They don't get rid of the need to have a workspace, though.  Suppose I want to switch back and forth between

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources s uch as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread William Skaggs
From: Joao S. O. Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] What about using...tags... for that? [etc] These are interesting ideas, but they are fantasies at this point. The whole tags thing is a fantasy at this point. There is no infrastructure in Gimp to support it, so everything would have to be written from

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources s uch as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread gg
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:50:36 +0100, William Skaggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, to repeat, even if there is tags support, there must be, at least from the user's point of view, something like a workspace -- a set of brushes that are immediately available. The proposal I made -- simply

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources such as brushes, gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:42 +, William Skaggs wrote: This mixes together two separate issues. No, it doesn't. Absolutely not. Tags are, as I have already agreed, an excellent way of doing a search mechanism. They don't get rid of the need to have a workspace, though. Suppose I

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources such as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread Devin Watson
I'm sorry to jump in on this so late. I was working on a new GIMP Plug-In Registry. It had been put on pause by me because of certain life-altering events. At one point I had put forward the idea of a backend XML-RPC or SOAP connectivity service that would allow GIMP to access the

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposal for managing resources such as brushes , gradients, etc

2008-01-16 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 01:50 +, William Skaggs wrote: These are interesting ideas, but they are fantasies at this point. The whole tags thing is a fantasy at this point. There is no infrastructure in Gimp to support it, so everything would have to be written from scratch. That's