Re: [Gimp-developer] Color spaces and layer blend modes - tool layers

2010-08-01 Thread Charlie De
> #1: Add additional color spaces to the color manipulation tools > (HSV/HSL/HSY/RGB/Lab/LMS/CMYK/etc/etc), where appropriate. If by this you mean that one could choose the colour space and the individual channels in which the command or tool is applied, then this is an excellent idea. It

[Gimp-developer] [oli...@first.in-berlin.de: Re: small Wishlist regarding Guides]

2010-08-01 Thread oliver
hello, this should have been sent to the list... so my answer forwarded to here. - Forwarded message from oli...@first.in-berlin.de - Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:40:45 +0200 From: oli...@first.in-berlin.de To: LightningIsMyName Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] small Wishlist regarding Gui

Re: [Gimp-developer] small Wishlist regarding Guides

2010-08-01 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 08/01/2010 05:42 PM, LightningIsMyName wrote: > Hello > >> - non-rectangle-bound guides: > > I think we have seen this request already several times and I > definitely agree it could be useful. FYI, here's a bug report with a non-finished patch: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3441

Re: [Gimp-developer] pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

2010-08-01 Thread LightningIsMyName
Hello, I discovered that when using windows it will indeed turn to the regular cursor when you leave GIMP's UI, but the "pick" functionality still works. Click anywhere on the screen - although GIMP's window will loose focus (in favour of the window you clicked on) the right color would still be p

Re: [Gimp-developer] pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

2010-08-01 Thread Cristian Secară
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 23:31:00 +0300, Cristian Secară wrote: > [...] > - it does not work on the image itself or GIMP UI, in that a click > anywhere on the image will set the foreground and/or background to > black (has set both at different moments, but could not undesrtand why > the one, or why the

[Gimp-developer] pick color anywhere on the screen ? not quite

2010-08-01 Thread Cristian Secară
Open the colors dialog (Windows -> Dockable Dialogs -> Colors). On the bottom of the panel, there is a button with a screen and an eyedropper over it. The floating tooltip says: Click the eyedropper, then click a color anywhere on your screen to select that color. Is this true on Linux ? (I canno

Re: [Gimp-developer] Color spaces and layer blend modes - tool layers

2010-08-01 Thread Christopher Curtis
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Bill Skaggs wrote: > It would be much better not to use the word "tool"in this way. I agree terminology is going to be difficult. I get the impression you are only thinking about color, but I'm not. Maybe it's clearer if I use the terms "Image layer" and "Blend l

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Sonntag, 1. August 2010 schrub Christopher Curtis: [...] > but HTML is a decent way to store stylized text. HTML may be suitable to store basic things like size, font face, color and so on, but it's far from typographic needs like manual kerning, … HTML isn't meant to describe the form of d

Re: [Gimp-developer] Color spaces and layer blend modes - tool layers

2010-08-01 Thread Bill Skaggs
It would be much better not to use the word "tool"in this way. In Gimp, a tool is an element of the user interface. When the user applies a tool, the end result is to perform a series of operations on the image. Thus, a tool is a user interface element that allows the user to interactively speci

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread peter sikking
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On 7/31/10, peter sikking wrote: > >> so there is an explicit 'no' for GIMP as a web design tool. > > You probably meant web programming :) no I really meant the web design job: deciding how all information and interaction is gong to be represented on the page, how t

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread peter sikking
Lightning wrote: > I don't agree with some of the product vision points as stated in the > UI redesign wiki and by some developers (for example that GIMP is > meant mainly for high end users and less for "simple" users - as we > discussed on IRC yesterday) well, that is a tricky thing to say. It

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread LightningIsMyName
Hello On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Christopher Curtis wrote: > What format does it save the per-character formatting in?  Would HTML > be an option? > > Understanding even a subset of the basic HTML1 tags plus could > likely be a good 80% solution.  That's not to say that it's easy > ( the mo

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread Christopher Curtis
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote: > Have you tried GIMP from git? It has been made possible to do > per-character formating in text layers there. What format does it save the per-character formatting in? Would HTML be an option? Understanding even a subset of the basic HT

[Gimp-developer] Color spaces and layer blend modes - tool layers

2010-08-01 Thread Christopher Curtis
Hello, Let me start by saying I haven't been following any development builds of GIMP or GEGL, so I may have some false presumptions and I certainly lack some information. That aside, I'd like to ask some broader questions about color spaces. Firstly, some background: the HSY color space appears

Re: [Gimp-developer] small Wishlist regarding Guides

2010-08-01 Thread LightningIsMyName
Hello >  - non-rectangle-bound guides: >       Guides that can be enabled to have any angle, which means that they do >       not have to be restricted to be 0 degrees or 90 degrees (being parallel >       to the window). > >       This feature can be helpful, e.g. when correcting pictures, or for

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread Kevin Cozens
bob wrote: > But I find it an interesting idea that, if it possible to implement in an > image editor, could help smooth the process of designing web application > front-ends. > > Anyway, I'm just putting it out there to you guys to see what you think. It might be possible to provide some form of

[Gimp-developer] small Wishlist regarding Guides

2010-08-01 Thread oliver
Hello, I have a small wishlist regarding Guides. - non-rectangle-bound guides: Guides that can be enabled to have any angle, which means that they do not have to be restricted to be 0 degrees or 90 degrees (being parallel to the window). This feature can be helpful,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help with new default resources in 2.8

2010-08-01 Thread Alexia Death
On Sunday, August 01, 2010 11:45:19 Matjaz L. wrote: > I contacted David Revoy and got a reply. He explained he doesn't feel GIMP > 2.7 is stable enough for regular production work, which would allow him to > develop a good default brush set through actual work. ...snip > It's a sort of a chic

[Gimp-developer] Help with new default resources in 2.8

2010-08-01 Thread Matjaz L.
Hello, I contacted David Revoy and got a reply. He explained he doesn't feel GIMP 2.7 is stable enough for regular production work, which would allow him to develop a good default brush set through actual work. He also said his current brush set made for Chaos&Evolutions DVD probably won't fit dir

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 08/01/2010 09:25 AM, Joseph Areeda wrote: > In my mind an hmtl layer would serve the same function as a text layer, > except that it would provide formatted text. It would be nice if could > be stored and edited as html then rendered on the fly. Hi, If you want more powerful formating of text

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread Joseph Areeda
I'm just starting to learn what it takes to be a GIMP developer so this is more from a user's perspective. In my mind an hmtl layer would serve the same function as a text layer, except that it would provide formatted text. It would be nice if could be stored and edited as html then rendered

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread LightningIsMyName
Hello, On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On 7/31/10, LightningIsMyName wrote: > >> I don't see GIMP becoming an HTML editor - not only because there is >> no one with time to develop this (building an html editor is lots of >> work), but also because this isn't GIMP's