Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-30 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:39 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I olso get the top+left pixel error but only when scaling using a script-fu. > Any idea? No, sorry, all the scaling was done manually using GIMP's Image->Scale Image dialog, and that's how I got the problematic results. David. ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-30 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:23 PM, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The webpages are nearly finished, I'm checking them now. > > Some observations on the results of scaling: > > * The old code mistreated the left and top edges, resulting in a > duplication

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-30 Thread David Gowers
The webpages are nearly finished, I'm checking them now. Some observations on the results of scaling: * The old code mistreated the left and top edges, resulting in a duplication of up to 1 pixel on the left and top edge (and corresponding omittal of a row of pixels on the right and bottom edge).

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-29 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Geert Jordaens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Gowers wrote: >> Hello. I've just completed the first half of the set (all specified >> results before the patch). Currently image files total 66mb, I'm >> guessing after add

Re: [Gimp-developer] is watercolor (brush color blending mode)...

2008-07-28 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Souichi TAKASHIGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >> No, it's only destructive if we have no way of regenerating the cache as >> needed. >> With GEGL, we can cache just at the newest node in the graph. Stroke >> information can be fully stored in the node.

Re: [Gimp-developer] is watercolor (brush color blending mode)...

2008-07-27 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Souichi TAKASHIGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 2008/7/28 Øyvind Kolås <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> The situation would be the same for GEGL once the bug in >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502465 gets resolved. Since >> the part of the processing

Re: [Gimp-developer] is watercolor (brush color blending mode)...

2008-07-26 Thread David Gowers
Hi Theodore, On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Theodore Imre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > is watercolor (brush color blending mode) going to be avaiable in > gimp's development version? I dont see why its not there,while it has > already been implemented back in 2.4 (Sakaguchi's work) Sakag

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-25 Thread David Gowers
Hello. I've just completed the first half of the set (all specified results before the patch). Currently image files total 66mb, I'm guessing after adding the results after-patch this will come up to ~110mb. During this testing I found one obvious bug, it remains to be seen whether the patch fixes

[Gimp-developer] Search-based Menu Browsing GSoC project

2008-07-24 Thread David Gowers
I'm really interested in this particular SoC project, I think it has the potential to greatly improve GIMP user workflow, and it's one of two that are not in SVN as a branch (so progress cannot be seen directly during the SoC). Zhang Junbo posted recently ( http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-16 Thread David Gowers
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Guillermo Espertino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please consider adding typographic elements (logos, text) and > icons/diagrams to the test images. > One of the most critic use cases where downscaling shows issues is with > high contrast such as dark typography on l

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-16 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:19 +0930, David Gowers wrote: > >> Personally I think the test is being run under flawed conditions >> (using nonlinear sRGB rather than linear RGB, which

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-16 Thread David Gowers
> Here are some images that may help show some problems -- colour photos > tend to hide problems, partly because the eye sees the subject more > easily and auto-corrects flaws, and partly because the hardest thing > for rescaling is often preserving both texture and sharpness. Of > course, most pe

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-16 Thread David Gowers
pixel art produces identical results to None using RGB mode * (possibly) make webpage. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:30 PM, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can do at least half of this task, possibly most of it. > > * decide on test images: > 2 landscapes >http://w

Re: [Gimp-developer] need help with bug #464466 (downscaling quality)

2008-07-16 Thread David Gowers
I can do at least half of this task, possibly most of it. * decide on test images: 2 landscapes http://www.flickr.com/photos/hapal/2292885459/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/2432037855/sizes/l/ (or size o/ ) 3 portraits http://www.flickr.com/photos/aturku

[Gimp-developer] po-files in SVN need updating

2008-07-14 Thread David Gowers
I am currently learning esperanto, and I set GIMP language to esperanto. Then, I noticed that there were several things untranslated, which the po file did not even record the original string for! (ie there is not even a 'msgid' showing the untranslated message!) For example * File->New ( the subm

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tagging of Gimp Resources project status

2008-07-14 Thread David Gowers
Hello, On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:01 AM, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Bill Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here is to me the most important question. Suppose the user wants >> to switch back and forth among a few

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tagging of Gimp Resources project status

2008-07-14 Thread David Gowers
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Bill Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is to me the most important question. Suppose the user wants > to switch back and forth among a few brushes that don't have any > natural relationship. Suppose for example that the user wants to draw > with a pencil br

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tagging of Gimp Resources project status

2008-07-14 Thread David Gowers
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Bill Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is to me the most important question. Suppose the user wants > to switch back and forth among a few brushes that don't have any > natural relationship. Suppose for example that the user wants to draw > with a pencil br

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tagging of Gimp Resources project status

2008-07-13 Thread David Gowers
Hi Aurimas, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Aurimas Juška <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Tagging of Gimp Resources project is an attempt to make it easy and > efficient to organize Gimp resources (brushes, patterns, gradients, > palettes). Currently the project is already somewhat usable, a

Re: [Gimp-developer] patterns in Gimp

2008-07-07 Thread David Gowers
names like "gimp pattern #1" are shown in gimp when more than one pattern has the same name ('gimp pattern' is the default pattern name when saving.). Most likely, your pattern was in a specific directory, that used to be included in the list of directories to look for patterns in. compare your p

Re: [Gimp-developer] Image color representation?

2008-06-27 Thread David Gowers
Hi solar, On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:32 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:02:01 +0200, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> and is no longer required in today's >> world of fast CPUs with fast FSBs, large memory, and huge hard

Re: [Gimp-developer] SoC 2008 - midterm evaluations start soon

2008-06-26 Thread David Gowers
Hi Michael, On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Michael Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > what I've read on IRC and the commit logs so far makes me confident that this > year's SoC will be very successful for all of our participants and GIMP. > > I'd like to remind you that the midterm

Re: [Gimp-developer] Image color representation?

2008-06-26 Thread David Gowers
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:41 AM, TriKri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Gowers wrote: >> > I'm having a bit of trouble myself deciding which type I should have in >> the >> > program I'm going to make, to use for each channel. If I use 8 bits

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp User Interface.

2008-06-16 Thread David Gowers
Hi, GIMP does all the right things (and so, for example, it works as you'd expect on Linux). If it still does not behave correctly, this is a problem with GTK+. I think first you should try GIMP 2.5 if you can. Some things changed since 2.4 regarding this issue; it's possible that 2.5 may solve yo

Re: [Gimp-developer] GSoC Status Report for pygimp

2008-06-15 Thread David Gowers
Hi Lars-Peter, On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > a short update what I did during the last few weeks. > > * I started with moving the package structure to a more hierarchical one. With > a gim

Re: [Gimp-developer] Image color representation?

2008-06-15 Thread David Gowers
Gimp currently uses 8bits/channel. Some 16/12bit formats (eg TIFF) are supported only by scaling the data down into 8 bits. The colors used in color selectors, and 'single' colors are represented as floating point values. I suggest investigating GEGL (gegl.org), which can provide pixel data in a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Paint core beyond 2.6

2008-06-08 Thread David Gowers
Hi Alexia, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Alexia Death <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > * be able to deliver constant distance and constant rate events >> >> You mean events at a constant distance spacing or a constant time spacing? > I mean both. The dream is that paincore would only need to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Paint core beyond 2.6

2008-06-07 Thread David Gowers
Hi Alexia, On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Alexia Death <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a planning idea for new PaintCore for GIMP 2.8 or beyond. [...] > * support a dynamic selection of arbitrary purely calculated axis > (random, iterator, sin, cos, sawtooth, box); A 'Dynamic selection'

Re: [Gimp-developer] community website

2008-05-25 Thread David Gowers
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:51 AM, David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Frank, > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Frank Karlitschek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm running openDesktop.org, KDE-Look.org, GNOME-Look.org and

Re: [Gimp-developer] community website

2008-05-25 Thread David Gowers
Hi Frank, On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Frank Karlitschek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm running openDesktop.org, KDE-Look.org, GNOME-Look.org and other websites > for Free software. > > As a long time GIMP user I noticed that there is no real community site where > GIMP users an

Re: [Gimp-developer] An idea for resource management

2008-05-22 Thread David Gowers
It would be worthwhile to consider this kind of thing for gradients and palettes, too -- personally I find I often simply want a scratch area; and being required to create a new palette first is a bit troublesome, especially since I usually don't want it to be saved. I could write a plugin that cl

Re: [Gimp-developer] An idea for resource management

2008-05-19 Thread David Gowers
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Aurimas Juška <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:05 AM, Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Currently, in order to use a custom brush/gradient/etc, you must first >> create it, then edit/save/etc. Every time you want a new b

[Gimp-developer] Edit->Copy bug/misbehaviour

2008-05-04 Thread David Gowers
Hello, I'm not yet sure I should file this as a bug, since I find myself confused about it. You may need 2.5 or SVN to reproduce this? Do the following in order to reproduce it: 1. Open an image 2. Make sure that nothing is selected, by using 'Select->None' 3. Edit->Copy 4. Notice how the Clipboar

Re: [Gimp-developer] A simple (?) question...

2008-04-10 Thread David Gowers
Hi Torsten, On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Torsten Neuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sven, > > > > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:27 +0930, David Gowers wrote: > > > What you are talking about is a hash function. There is a string > > > hash

Re: [Gimp-developer] A simple (?) question...

2008-04-08 Thread David Gowers
Hi Torsten, On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Torsten Neuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am currently updating an older plugin (one that is not in the distribution > nor in the registry anymore) in order to bring it back to life (and, well, > maybe learn something about Gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] Activating actions through the PDB

2008-04-01 Thread David Gowers
Hi Sven, On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:21 +1030, David Gowers wrote: > > > This second class is really all I can see traditional plugins needing > > to do after GEGLification is c

[Gimp-developer] Activating actions through the PDB

2008-04-01 Thread David Gowers
I've been talking to a few people about the future of GIMP plugins, and worked out that in terms of current plugins, there will end up being two types: Those that are related to GEGL (implementing GEGL operations, modifying graphs, applying graphs) and those that are not (convenience plugins that d

Re: [Gimp-developer] shared layer mask or layer mask reference to previous

2008-03-31 Thread David Gowers
Hi, It won't happen unless someone puts in the work. GIMP development is entirely voluntary, so if you want this, submit a patch to make the necessary changes. Otherwise, you leave it to chance whether this ever gets implemented. Posting feature requests here tends to annoy the developers. It is a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Question about how Gimp displays multiple layers

2008-03-31 Thread David Gowers
Hello. I cannot address the issue of widgets. Anyway GIMP does not use widgets to display individual layers, only the final composition, app/display holds the code IIRC(quite a bit of code -- someone else might be able to narrow it down further.). The image is composited and THEN displayed (in one

Re: [Gimp-developer] 'no image' window: progress...

2008-03-30 Thread David Gowers
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > the Open dialog is a poor replacement for a file manager. If you only > use it as a drag source, then why not just use your file manager > instead? ... My file manager is Midnight Commander :) I've just tried Ro

Re: [Gimp-developer] 'no image' window: progress...

2008-03-30 Thread David Gowers
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 09:27 +1030, David Gowers wrote: > > > The 'Open' window can remain up as you DnD items from it to the > > toolbox. > > Yes, this works

Re: [Gimp-developer] 'no image' window: progress...

2008-03-29 Thread David Gowers
Hi all, On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Kevin Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jbaker wrote: > > o What would really be nice and make the dropzone a lot more > > usable... if there is was a file browser built into it... > > split the niw vertically, put a f

Re: [Gimp-developer] ‘no image’ window: progre ss...

2008-03-28 Thread David Gowers
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Michael Grosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > To give my $0.02, I think Gimp should simply emulate what is out > > > there, > > > namely the behavior of established applications such as Open Office > > > and > > > gedit. > > > > I am really struggling

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP to adopt this scripts

2008-03-18 Thread David Gowers
Wow, didn't notice I was repeating Alexia. Sorry, Alexia :) Although that makes me think -- something like python's easy_install would be terribly handy for resources.. If you're not familiar with it, basic usage is : 'easy_install foo' installs the latest version of foo. This would require a centr

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP to adopt this scripts

2008-03-18 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:43 AM, David G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Alexia Death-2 wrote: > > > > > > I do not think gimp needs to come with extra stuff by default. There is > > more > > than enough already... What gimp needs is a quick drag-and-drop way > > to "install" extras in p

Re: [Gimp-developer] installing patterns

2008-03-17 Thread David Gowers
Hi Andrei, Do you use GIMP 1.2 at all? If not, delete that second directory! it is irrelevant and is obviously the cause of your confusion. IIRC nothing changed about pattern fileformat between 1.x and 2.x, so you should be able to copy them across, yes :) Cheers, David On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rotation for brushes

2008-03-17 Thread David Gowers
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Bill Skaggs wrote: > > David G. wrote: > > > > > > Add a option to rotate brushes to compliment the scaling. > > > I don't know if this has been requested but it would be ve

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rotation for brushes

2008-03-16 Thread David Gowers
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Bill Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I proposed this because it will actually boost the simplicity > > of managing brushes to adapt in effects and splashes, instead > > of doing the layer and rotation "technique".

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rotation for brushes

2008-03-16 Thread David Gowers
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Bill Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Gowers wrote: > > > Myself, I would use it for nearly every non-symmetrical brush (and > > wish for the ability to v- or h-flip it, too), particularly when I'd > > just

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rotation for brushes

2008-03-16 Thread David Gowers
Hi, On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Bill Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Add a option to rotate brushes to compliment the scaling. > > I don't know if this has been requested but it would be very > > helpful than creating a layer + using the r

Re: [Gimp-developer] no-image-open redux [start time]

2008-03-15 Thread David Gowers
Hi, I'd like to point out that startup speed is also dependent on what resources you have installed. With lots of brushes or patterns, startup time can be significantly inflated ( I have a set of 900 brushes that inflate startup times from 6sec -> 35sec). So you should make sure that you test with

Re: [Gimp-developer] Brushes/input controllers changes idea

2008-03-12 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Alexia Death <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 March 2008 21:46:41 Joern P. Meier wrote: > > I have been looking at the GIMP code recently to look for > > possibilities of implementing some features that could make GIMP more > > useful for artists that c

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp_patterns_get_list

2008-03-10 Thread David Gowers
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Andrei Simion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following problem: when calling gimp_patterns_get_list on the > Gimp server, version 2.2 I got an error: > > "not enough arguments for function 'gimp_patterns_get_list'" > > The function works on the

Re: [Gimp-developer] transparent transformation preview

2008-02-29 Thread David Gowers
Hi Patrice, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Patrice Poly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I have searched a lot about this, and couldn't find anything apart a few > lines > in an old summer of code page, and in this old webpage : > http://www.re.org/tom/computer/gimp/index.html#preview

[Gimp-developer] Fwd: improved drawing modes

2008-02-25 Thread David Gowers
Forwarding further explanation from Radoslav. -- Forwarded message -- From: Radoslav Schudich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] improved drawing modes To: David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the paint mode is disp

[Gimp-developer] Fwd: improved drawing modes

2008-02-23 Thread David Gowers
forwarding mistakenly privately sent message. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] improved drawing modes To: Radoslav Schudich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I cannot try TVPaint; I

Re: [Gimp-developer] improved drawing modes

2008-02-22 Thread David Gowers
Hi, I admit that if Erase were a paint mode, I would use it much more. The eraser tool, I generally find does not happen to have brush settings convenient to my current task, and so i find it cumbersome. So, I think that erase as a paint mode is a good idea. I do not understand this 'Negative' pai

Re: [Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

2008-02-21 Thread David Gowers
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Michael Natterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 11:34 +1030, David Gowers wrote: > > > There is no guarantee that there will be any taskbar at all. On linux, > > there are plenty of WM's that either provide a task

Re: [Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

2008-02-19 Thread David Gowers
On Feb 20, 2008 11:07 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > peter sikking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Feb 19, 2008 13:46 -0500 (in > part): > > > You missed one of the mails in this thread then. If we use this window > > as a DND target, where should our users drop images when it is not > > there?

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-19 Thread David Gowers
On Feb 20, 2008 5:24 AM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:35 +0100, Daniel Hornung wrote: > > > > Well, perhaps not deprecated in the "don't use this API" sense. Their > > > use is discouraged. And not by the GTK+ developers but by usability > > > experts.

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-16 Thread David Gowers
On Feb 17, 2008 5:46 AM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:47 -0800, Bill Skaggs wrote: > > > Well, it would be very easy to make the layer mode menu > > support a tearoff. It can literally be done by adding two > > lines of C code. (I just tested.) > > Th

Re: [Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

2008-02-08 Thread David Gowers
Hi Tobias, I like the simple, functional design of this. Do you know, has what the toolbox would become, already been resolved? I notice this does not seem to concern people presently. On Feb 8, 2008 9:01 AM, Tobias Jakobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 05.02.2008, 11:26 +0100 sc

Re: [Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

2008-02-05 Thread David Gowers
Alexandre, What Peter describes does not involve transparent windows. I agree it does not seem useful, in sense of literal opacity.. Rather, a waterlevel-type adjustment could suit this idea better..with widgets appearing or disappearing according to whether they are above waterlevel. It's i

[Gimp-developer] Fwd: GIMP Levels operation fix

2008-02-04 Thread David Gowers
g gradient, instead of a readjusted single gradient for the channel being adjusted. -- Forwarded message ------ From: David Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 31, 2008 5:45 PM Subject: GIMP Levels operation To: Michael Natterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've just found a bug

Re: [Gimp-developer] toward a plan for 2.8

2008-01-26 Thread David Gowers
On Jan 27, 2008 8:52 AM, William Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the points that emerged from the ongoing discussion is that it > is time to start making a tentative roadmap for 2.8. I hope this time > that Peter and his group can be brought into the discussion as early > as possible, a

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread David Gowers
On Jan 26, 2008 12:53 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 4:54 PM, David Gowers wrote: > > > In short -- what you call 'action recording', I call 'packaging up a > > chunk of the undo stack'. Really, your '

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread David Gowers
On Jan 26, 2008 12:09 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 4:20 PM, David Gowers wrote: > > > What significant sequence of actions that you can take is there, that > > cannot be done by simple graph editing? > > Users do not think in

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread David Gowers
Hi Alexandre, On Jan 25, 2008 9:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 11:01 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > Actually, I don't think that we need to put action recording on our list > > as that will become obsolete with non-destructive editing. > > This is apples an

Re: [Gimp-developer] tagged resources such as brushes, gradients, etc

2008-01-18 Thread David Gowers
On Jan 18, 2008 9:33 PM, Tobias Jakobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 8:55 AM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My current favorite approach is to put the tags into files in the > > ~/.gimp-2.x directory, one file per resource type. So there would be a > > brushrc, grad

Re: [Gimp-developer] Preview Windows in Python-Fu - Do they exist?

2007-12-07 Thread David Gowers
Hi Jim, On Dec 8, 2007 10:22 AM, Jim Sabatke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been searching the net for a couple days to see if Python-Fu > supports Preview Windows in plug-ins. Depending on the search strings I No, it doesn't. PyGimp does, though. This means that if you want a preview window,

Re: [Gimp-developer] thumbnail generation for nautilus via gimp

2007-12-05 Thread David Gowers
Hi Eckhard, On Dec 6, 2007 6:29 AM, Eckhard M. Jäger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > i found the problem why the script doesn't showed up, it needs the file > permission "Exexcute". > Do not know why, i have written exporters for Blender and plugins for gEdit > both in Python but >

Re: [Gimp-developer] dir(gimpfu.pdb) crashes

2007-12-03 Thread David Gowers
Hi Jayesh, On Dec 3, 2007 4:49 PM, Jayesh Salvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to see what all methods gimpfu.pdb offers, by running dir() > operation on it. But it crashes as follows: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] plug-ins]$ > PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/python python >

Re: [Gimp-developer] thumbnail generation for nautilus via gimp

2007-12-03 Thread David Gowers
Hi Eckhard, On Dec 2, 2007 6:15 AM, Eckhard M. Jäger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > i got the idea to create a python script thats generate the thumbnails of > unsupported images in nautilus using gimp. > Implementing this in Gimp and in Nautilus. > > I studied the commandline opt

Re: [Gimp-developer] improving QMask mode

2007-12-01 Thread David Gowers
Hi Sven, On Dec 1, 2007 9:37 PM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 18:05 +1030, David Gowers wrote: > > > > > b) Push the context before entering qmask mode, and pop it when > > > > exiting qmask mode. > > For

Re: [Gimp-developer] improving QMask mode

2007-11-30 Thread David Gowers
Hi Liam, On Dec 1, 2007 6:15 AM, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 22:45 +1030, David Gowers wrote: > > I believe that QMask mode could be made quicker to use, by providing > > an option to: > > a) Reset the FG/BG colors to black and whi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developer-User Disconnect

2007-11-30 Thread David Gowers
You have no clue. Read Raphael's reply, and get one. What do I have to say? You are equating the average user with yourself. This is a very common practice, and a complete fallacy. Stop it. okay? On Nov 30, 2007 4:40 PM, Gary Pikula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I looked at this project I cou

[Gimp-developer] improving QMask mode

2007-11-30 Thread David Gowers
I believe that QMask mode could be made quicker to use, by providing an option to: a) Reset the FG/BG colors to black and white upon entering qmask mode and b) Push the context before entering qmask mode, and pop it when exiting qmask mode. With the sum effect that you needn't destroy the colors t

Re: [Gimp-developer] some gimply thoughts

2007-11-22 Thread David Gowers
On Nov 23, 2007 6:03 AM, GSR - FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2007-11-22 at 1544.46 +1030): > > Hi Liam, > > > > On Nov 22, 2007 9:45 AM, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Evidence that auto levels loses details -- > > > take a photograph (or a scanned e

Re: [Gimp-developer] some gimply thoughts

2007-11-21 Thread David Gowers
Hi Liam, On Nov 22, 2007 9:45 AM, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Evidence that auto levels loses details -- > take a photograph (or a scanned engraving, or whatever) and open > Levels, and press autl. Note that the little triangles marking > the end-points are not under the ends of

Re: [Gimp-developer] some gimply thoughts

2007-11-21 Thread David Gowers
Hi Liam, On Nov 21, 2007 5:00 PM, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saved these notes for when there was a 2.6, but then got swamped with > other things... I can flesh them out more, but I'm not likely to have > time to do any programming in the forseeable future, I'm afraid. > I've s

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gaussian blur in GIMP compared to Photoshop

2007-11-20 Thread David Gowers
Hi Jespar, On Nov 20, 2007 9:23 PM, Jesper de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed that with Gaussian blur, the Radius setting in GIMP means > something different than in Photoshop CS3. > > As a test, I made a black square on a white background and used Gaussian > blur on it with Photoshop C

Re: [Gimp-developer] Idea: selection curve

2007-11-19 Thread David Gowers
Hi Stephane, On Nov 20, 2007 10:10 AM, Stephane Chauveau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I just got an idea about the curve tool: Why not use it as a selection tool? > > Apart from The Gimp, I do not know a lot of image manipulation programs > so the feature might very well be common. > >

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI redesign: 1 Dimensional Menu for GIMP

2007-11-04 Thread David Gowers
I may not understand your description. It gave me an idea, though: mouse-gesture-ish submenus.. That is, supposing that you have a top-level menu with items 1 2 3 and 3 is a submenu, then, to select 3, you move down -- then a menu folds out horizontally 1 2 345 you move across, and select 5, wh

Re: [Gimp-developer] weekend 2.6 UI roadmap roundup...

2007-10-29 Thread David Gowers
Actually I got the impression that it had changed, and now box-filtering was used, which does account for all input pixels. OTOH, Lanczos currently produces poor results. Geert Jordaans (sp?) was working on improving this. On 10/30/07, Guillermo Espertino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd add the q

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmapping, the UI part of it...

2007-10-29 Thread David Gowers
On 10/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, October 29, 2007, 14:15:28, Michael Natterer wrote: > > > As Saul already responded that happens only if you use DND. Why on earth > > would a UI control activate just because you hover some seconds over it? > > That strikes me

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmapping, the UI part of it...

2007-10-29 Thread David Gowers
On 10/29/07, Michael Natterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:34 +1030, David Gowers wrote: > > On 10/29/07, Alexandre Prokoudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/29/07, Guillermo Espertino wrote: > > > > > > > I loo

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmapping, the UI part of it...

2007-10-28 Thread David Gowers
On 10/29/07, Alexandre Prokoudine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/29/07, Guillermo Espertino wrote: > > > I looked at Opera, as it has been suggested here. It has very good > > options for managing tabs (manage different views and make tiles or > > cascades for multiple views, detach windows fro

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap

2007-10-27 Thread David Gowers
On 10/27/07, Valerie VK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay I want to clear this up: > > GEGL *is* coded (see www.gegl.org), and already in use by a few > > different applications. > > Much apologies. I was always under the impression that while there > is a working version, more work could have

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap

2007-10-26 Thread David Gowers
On 10/27/07, Valerie VK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So... Gimp currently has 4 major goals? > - Cairo > - GEGL > - Add named parameters and default values to the PDB > - 6 months development cycle. > > Wouldn't it be easier to treat them as Separate goals for separate > releases? Once Cairo and GE

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wacom support in GIMP RC3

2007-10-24 Thread David Gowers
I'm successfully running Ubuntu 7.10 with a Graphire 3; The appropriate Device sections for the tablet were correctly specified after installation. I had to uncomment the following lines in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fully enable the tablet: InputDevice "stylus""SendCoreEvents"

Re: [Gimp-developer] calling a procedure in a plugin

2007-10-19 Thread David Gowers
On 10/19/07, Giuseppe Pasquino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have modified the code as you suggested: > > GimpRGB *colore; > GimpChannelOps parametri; > gboolean success; > gimp_rgb_set_uchar(colore, pixel[0], pixel[1], pixel[2]); > parametri = GIMP_CHANNE

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adjustment Layers - How can I Help?

2007-10-08 Thread David Gowers
On 10/8/07, Andrew Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David, > > Interesting. GEGL sounds very much in line with a lot of the ideas I have > about how to approach the problem. Is this seen as the future of GIMP's > core? Image representation, certainly. Gimp's core -- maybe. That would depend on h

Re: [Gimp-developer] Adjustment Layers - How can I Help?

2007-10-07 Thread David Gowers
On 10/8/07, Andrew Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings! > > I have been an avid Gimp user for a number of years. I have always wished > Gimp supported non-destructive image adjustments such those available with > Photoshop "adjustment layers." From searching around the internet, it seems >

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] PyGEGL instant crash

2007-09-23 Thread David Gowers
On 7/23/07, Kevin Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Gowers wrote: > >> The what's new document for each release is a good resource for these > >> kinds of problems, especially its porting section: > > > >> http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/p

Re: [Gimp-developer] McCann Retinex plugin with python

2007-09-15 Thread David Gowers
On 9/15/07, John Fremlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday I decided to implement the retinex algorithm described by > John McCann in 1999 as a gimp plugin. > > I am using Python (in particular numpy for the main calculations) and > consequently chose to put in some modifications to the algori

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP Vectors Object Documentation

2007-09-13 Thread David Gowers
I converted the script to python (useful script, btw -- thanks Simon.), and I cannot reproduce this. I did, however, find that I was occasionally tripped up by paint mode -- for example, if Addition mode was selected rather than Normal, then drawing black on a white background had no effect. The ot

Re: [Gimp-developer] Additional Default Brushes for 2.4?

2007-09-11 Thread David Gowers
I like these brushes a lot. They can be cut down to 20 rather than the original 154, since 2.4 includes brush scale adjustment, and I have mentioned this to iceytina at the last of your links. I would like to take this opportunity to plug my particular contribution to 2.4, the palette navigation a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Extending GIMP Plugins

2007-08-25 Thread David Gowers
On 8/26/07, Amit Kumar Saha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. Can I work with the individual pixels of an Image using GEGL? Say I > want GEGL to work with only certain range of pixels of my Image, is it > possible? You mean a certain area of your image, rather than all of it? You would do that u

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature request, - liquid resize

2007-08-22 Thread David Gowers
On 8/22/07, Thomas Lytje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not sure you take feature requests like this, - but try to take a look. > It seems quite cool. > I don't know enough about image processing (but I am a software engineer) > but to me it looks like it wouldn't be to hard to implement. Hopefu

Re: [Gimp-developer] Hue-Saturation tool with gradients

2007-08-18 Thread David Gowers
On 8/18/07, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:50 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote: > > > If somebody is interested in participating in this process please send > > me an e-mail so we can coordinate efforts with Danko and Marius > > My own feeling is that it would b

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