Re: [Gimp-developer] Layer Groups

2007-02-20 Thread David Marrs
jEsuSdA wrote: My question is why and when Gimp will include LAYER GROUPS or FOLDERS (more useful)? See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86337 for the current situation. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tools

2007-03-19 Thread David Marrs
Alpár Jüttner wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 20:52 +0100, Michael Natterer wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 12:47 -0700, Federico Alcantara wrote: Hi I am interested in knowning if Gimp is written in C/C++, and which tools are needed to compile, debug, and test it? What about downloading it and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-22 Thread David Marrs
Akkana Peck wrote: Maybe that's the intent -- to set up a gauntlet that weeds out any potential participants who might be lazy or thin skinned. If so, no problem. But if you actually want lots of new participants, then how other people perceive the project matters. I don't think more

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rudeness on gimp devel and bugzilla - was: Re: Tools

2007-03-22 Thread David Marrs
Michael Schumacher wrote: We do have a list etiquette at http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html. I'd like to suggest that it is moved above the mailing lists, maybe it will be read more often then. I recently submitted a patch to the gimp-web list addressing this page. I added a link to the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-22 Thread David Marrs
Sven Neumann wrote: Wouldn't it be easier if you could quickly zoom in (and back out again to the previous zoom level) without having to open a new view for this? In the SVN version you can already revert to previous zoom level. What's the point of doing this in a separate window? Sorry for

[Gimp-developer] [Gimp-Developer] One-click binary downloads via the gimp website

2007-03-28 Thread David Marrs
deep links to the binaries from the website. If anyone has any issues with this proposal please raise them here. If I don't get any replies to this post I'll presume there are no objections. :) Regards, David Marrs ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-Developer] One-click binary downloads via the gimp website

2007-03-30 Thread David Marrs
Sven Neumann wrote: In my opinion we should stick to this rule. It would make a lot of sense to make it easier for the user to locate our recommendations for binary packages. If user agent detection helps to remove one or two clicks, then I am fine with that. But if there's a download button

Re: [Gimp-developer] Looking for GIMP developers

2007-04-06 Thread David Marrs
Nancy Parsons wrote: Essentially, we want to be able to provide our users a free basic image manipulation application that does what they need it to do, without overwhelming them with additional functionality of GIMP. Are we talking quite a specific application here like crop and resize

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-06-21 Thread David Marrs
peter sikking wrote: We do imagine that a set of website graphics pieces gets _produced_ on a single canvas, and when everything works well together graphically, with a single 'cutting mask' all pieces are cut out and saved in the right web format, in a single action. I don't see how this

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-06-24 Thread David Marrs
peter sikking wrote: can you tell me what you mean with manual work needs to be done? that can help us with our work. Well the most common case is simply selecting a slither of an area to be tiled as a background image. Sometimes you have to hide a foreground layer before making the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-06-26 Thread David Marrs
Akkana Peck wrote: I might have misunderstood this step (I definitely don't follow the comment about PS not letting you edit -- maybe that's a PS issue) but it sounds like if you did a Paste as New in gimp, you wouldn't need to create a new canvas or figure out any dimensions. Oh yeah. Thanks

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-06-26 Thread David Marrs
peter sikking wrote: interesting to see Compare compressed images against original, would it be enough to see the compressed one and balance that against the size and what your customer expects? I usually do comparisons when I'm trying to get the best image quality out of jpegs. There seems to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-06-27 Thread David Marrs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neither is chosing the appropriate format specific the web so save for the web concept is misleading. It should be select best compression format or so. I have no argument with this. If we can do away with a separate dialogue altogether, so much the better. It

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-07-11 Thread David Marrs
peter sikking wrote: interesting to see Compare compressed images against original, would it be enough to see the compressed one and balance that against the size and what your customer expects? As an experiment at work I decided to work on just the one image when saving for web and found

Re: [Gimp-developer] Missing button to confirm some tool actions (usability)

2007-08-19 Thread David Marrs
Clicking inside the cropped region also implements the action. It's actually a feature I'm not sure I like because it deviates from the rectangle tool's implementation of the same action - to hide the handles. Well, I don't know if that's what the implementation is technically but that's what

Re: [Gimp-developer] Missing button to confirm some tool actions (usability)

2007-08-20 Thread David Marrs
Michael Schumacher wrote: Von: David Marrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clicking inside the cropped region also implements the action. It's actually a feature I'm not sure I like because it deviates from the rectangle tool's implementation of the same action - to hide the handles. Well, I don't know

Re: [Gimp-developer] Extending GIMP Plugins

2007-08-22 Thread David Marrs
Amit Kumar Saha wrote: Am i thinking in a way that could possibly be implemented? or is the word extensible remotely applicable to my idea? So what you're talking about here is a graphical interface to the API that a user can use to build his own extensions? Essentially, it's a graphical

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

2007-10-30 Thread David Marrs
Guillermo Espertino wrote: I understand. It's clear that everyone's preference may vary on this subject: -Photoshop users will ask for floating windows nested in a container window. They ask for an MDI structure because that's what they know, but I suspect they'll be happy with any

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-11 Thread David Marrs
Rob Antonishen wrote: I think that all of the channel use cases should be examined before deciding how these should act. My own experience with channels is limited to: 1) Image decomposition for masking/converting to greyscale 2) Saved selections ... Sven mentioned other uses, like spot

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dockable Dialogs Should be Dockable Everywhere

2009-03-26 Thread David Marrs
gimp-developer-boun...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi all ! This is a long post, replying to many previous posts, and adding some parts from IRC chats, and some even from discussions with Gimp developers. ... I have a degree of sympathy with this post although it seems to go to the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dockable Dialogs Should be Dockable Everywhere

2009-03-27 Thread David Marrs
Alexandre wrote: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:13 AM, David Marrs wrote: As for customisability? I think that it's probably underestimated. Take the example of me spending half an hour or more on google this evening trying to work out how to enable menu tear-offs in Gnome. As far as I can

Re: [Gimp-developer] Please restore removed crop tool functionality

2009-03-29 Thread David Marrs
gimp-developer-boun...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu wrote: Therefore I'd still consider the non-destructive crop feature at least a usability enhancement. At least personally I would assume that the crop tool of a professional tool like Gimp would offer this option as well. (Not sure whether PS