Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.3.18 deletes exif data from images (2)

2007-06-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 23:25 -0300, Luis A. Florit wrote: Compiling the trunk, I saw that GIMP (also version = 2.3.18) needs libexif = 0.6.15, while there is no RPM repository with libexif version bigger than 0.6.13. (Probably most RPM based distros have the libexif outdated). [...] Same

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-06-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 01:30 +0200, peter sikking wrote: [...] actually right now I am specifying how the selection tools should deal with long, very narrow selections, with the web guys in mind. Please don't forget other users :-) I routinely have a selection that's, say, 10,000 pixels by

Re: [Gimp-developer] Webdesign is wrong

2007-06-27 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 19:11 +0200, peter sikking wrote: Liam, Please don't forget other users :-) I routinely have a selection that's, say, 10,000 pixels by roughly 40 pixels. This might not be a usual case for Web graphics... an aspect ratio of 1000 to 4. cool. at what zoom level(s)

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 12:19 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] Due to the way file plug-ins are implemented in GIMP, it is not trivial to do this. But you can easily work around it by assigning Ctrl-S to Save As. I'd advise making ^S to be Quit. Then you'll be prompted, realise your mistake,

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 19:41 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 18:37 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: For my part I miss save a copy as... which in some programs saves the file like Save As but doesn't change the filename of what's being edited. GIMP 2.3 has this feature

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp switchers

2007-07-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 14:25 +1200, Robert Carter wrote: [...] I would want to modify: = Menu layout = Keyboard short cuts ( including backspace, tab and space which are standard PS shortcuts ) And also possibly (less important) = GTK behaviours of the panels (photoshop has several

Re: [Gimp-developer] Downscaling quality.

2007-08-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 19:35 +0200, Øyvind Kolås wrote: For downscaling (decimating) box filtering is orders of magnitude better than the buggy erronious use of interpolation that currently is used in GIMP. For what it's worth, for www.fromoldbooks.org, I routinely scale images down to 20% or

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 11:25 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: [...] - the smoothing option because this can also be performed by the usual blur filters. Actually no, I don't think it can :-) The smoothing seems to reduce jpeg artifacts quite noticeably; it appears as if it's done after

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option Use custom quality settings for JPEG files

2007-08-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 13:36 +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: [...] Considering that the quantization tables attached to an image would not always be the original ones, I decided to write custom instead of original for the label of that option. It is not perfect, but I have not been able to

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

2007-08-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
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 be better to wait until there is some experience with the

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.4.0-rc1

2007-08-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:27 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Moin, we did it. congratulations!!! This is probably the last mail I write before going on vacation with the girl I am going to marry tomorrow. even bigger congratulations!!! :) Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C,

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

2007-08-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 16:43 +0930, David Gowers wrote: On 8/18/07, Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] My own feeling is that it would be better to wait until there is some experience with the post-2.4 GIMP and higher definition colour models before changing any of the colour tools

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp (current svn) crop tool

2007-08-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
It would be easy to update Fixed: Size however, since that uses the same widget as Fixed: Aspect ratio, so I'm still curious about what you mean with crop zone I think it's fairly clear (although maybe I'm out to breakfast)... when you clidck on Fixed Size, the size (width + height fields)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp (current svn) crop tool

2007-08-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 08:34 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: It seems to me as if you describe Fixed: Size simply as a facility to lock the current size. That was the case before I started to implement guiguru's rectangle tools spec [1], but it's not the case anymore, so your argumentation

Re: [Gimp-developer] Default values for the Fixed: Size entry

2007-08-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 20:44 -0500, peter sikking wrote: How about having 100x100 as default when there is no pending rectangle and rectangle width x rectangle height when there is one? This would be the case for both the selection tools and the crop tool. we cannot base the default of

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:47 +0200, Christian Scholz wrote: [...] Most of the problems involve consecutive use of polygonal selection an other selection tools. E.g. I made a rectangular selection. Now I changed my mind and want to cut little triangles into the selection. However the only

Re: [Gimp-developer] moving selections

2007-09-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:21 +0200, Christian Henz wrote: [...] Ah, okay that seems to work, thank you. This is even less convenient than the cut-and-paste solution though :-/ You can also float selection, I think control-shift-L by default, and then move it. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML

Re: [Gimp-developer] add a polygonal selection tool

2007-09-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:48 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's not entirely true to say you had to have used paths from the start, since you can save the first selection to a channel, make the new one with paths, including an approximate, much

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gdv, Vol 62, Issue 14 message 2

2007-11-07 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:03 +0100, M Tieleman wrote: You know, that is an excellent idea, but unfortunately aside from the brushes folder options, which I think are really needed, and pardon me if this is going a little offtopic, but the brushes themselves are still slow. Are you running

[Gimp-developer] some gimply thoughts

2007-11-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
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. selction optimization on subtracting (e.g. control is pressed), compute the

[Gimp-developer] some gimply thoughts

2007-11-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
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 the black part - in other words there are multiple pixel values that are used in the

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP WebAccess via ajax-webinterface

2007-12-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 21:50 +, Øyvind Kolås wrote: [...] Per simultaneous user using the service I expect that you would have to donate ~1ghz of processing power, 256mb of memory and a couple of gigs of swap space. Makes sense to me. I had to remove unsharp mask from my wallpaperify

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug? Clone Tool after Merge Layers

2008-02-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 21:39 -0500, Brendan wrote: [...] Layer Mask gets squashed down with a Merge Visible Layers command. After that, I can't seem to get the Clone or Heal or really any drawing tool to work on the image. Unselected everything even. Make sure the background layer is selected

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug? Clone Tool after Merge Layers

2008-02-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 08:44 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 09:05 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 21:39 -0500, Brendan wrote: [...] Layer Mask gets squashed down with a Merge Visible Layers command. After that, I can't seem to get the Clone or Heal

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 02:06 +0200, Tor Lillqvist wrote: [...] Is it conceivable to have a Filter Brush that takes any filter, ala krita? Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net

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

2008-02-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:13 -0800, Bill Skaggs wrote: Well, it's clear that the idea is not generating a great deal of enthusiasm. [... screenshot...] I don't think I have to persuade anybody that this is less than ideal from a usability point of view. The question is, can we do anything

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

2008-02-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 09:52 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] My main critisism of tear-offs is the lack of discoverability. The toilet-paper metaphore is less than obvious unless you've met it elsewhere. This is where the push-pin is a real win. Another example in GIMP is docking

Re: [Gimp-developer] tile ref count balance warning

2008-02-27 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 00:04 -0500, Brennan Sellner wrote: Basically this means that your plug-ins creates drawables and doesn't destroy them later nor does it attach them to any image. For what it's worth I've been getting these warnings, using only core plugins (gaussian blur, resize,

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

2008-05-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 18:45 +0930, David Gowers wrote: [...] I like this workflow. It makes me think of an idea, where you can have 8 custom brushes attached to your image (and saved with it); when you load the image, they appear in your brushes dialog [...] Some (proprietary) software has the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 23:46 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] Could make sense to ask on the gimp-user list. But as far as I can see, saving the current drawable is the only reasonable use case. We might want to consider to make this easier by adding Save Layer and removing the Ignore choice

Re: [Gimp-developer] Export File dialog question

2008-06-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 08:08 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: It's not clear what Save Visible Layers would do. Would it save the merged image of all visible layers into a single layer Yes. I.e. like doing a flatten and then a save and then an undo. I don't have strong feelings about it, but since

Re: [Gimp-developer] Specs for Export/Save User Interface

2008-06-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 19:17 +0200, Ingo Ruhnke wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Robert Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One issue that needs to be considered with that is what is done with very large images. In a perfect work there would be a way to not save the image itself, but

Re: [Gimp-developer] proposed solution for: protection from information loss

2008-06-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 06:20 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Carl Karsten wrote: proposed spec: File Open/Save/Save_as_Copy only work on .xcf - all other formats must use File Import/Export.[1] Yesterday I saved an image in xcf by mistake, by mistyping the .png at the end of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Suggested in memory image data structure.

2008-07-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 23:34 +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: I'm trying to touch up the result of a panorama shot I took. This takes quite long, mostly because the image is too big to fit into memory. Working with large images does require a little extra care. It helps to set the gimp tile cache

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

2008-07-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 00:32 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Since no one has offered to help with this bug so far, I see two options: (1) postpone this change for 2.8 (2) commit the changes and release them with 2.5.2, revert if needed I can certainly offer images, I'm maxed out with work

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

2008-07-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 22:14 +0930, David Gowers wrote: The one thing I definitely can't do is * Host webpage. I can do that if you want, although gimp.org would be better. As long as it's under a gigabyte or so. Here are some images that may help show some problems -- colour photos tend to

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

2008-07-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 00:28 +0200, Theodore Imre wrote: ... is watercolor (brush color blending mode) going to be avaiable in gimp's development version? In the short term, the Krita program (part of KDE) does have some colour mixing. Do you have any idea how badly a graphic artist wants

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

2008-07-27 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 01:19 +0900, Souichi TAKASHIGE wrote: [...] But it costs too much memory when we make a lot of strokes -- and we *DO* make thousand of strokes when we draw an image -- compared to the current implementation which has a buffer per each layers. That's something that

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

2008-08-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 23:54 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: I've put your results online at http://svenfoo.org/scaletest/ I've tried the patch out a little. So far it feels noticeably slower on mediumsized or large images (e.g. a 13899x8497-pixel 2400dpi grayscale scan, which Gimp reports as

Re: [Gimp-developer] Proposal new default layout starting 2.6

2008-08-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 20:22 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: [...] My proposal is basically this: http://a.death.pri.ee/2.6_default_layout_proposal.png I think there's some good here, although I also think changes here might be better targeted at 2.8. I like the Z-brush and RawTherappee style of

Re: [Gimp-developer] scale-region.c

2008-08-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 19:09 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] Thanks for the review. I have committed this change and some other cleanups and optimizations to SVN trunk last night. This gives a small but noticeable speedup. I hope that my changes did not introduce any new bugs, but I am quite

Re: [Gimp-developer] scale-region.c

2008-08-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 09:46 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] This is just a bug in the progress code in scale-region.c. I am on it, should be fixed by tonight. Oh you sexy bean! Now that you ahve indeed stopped gimp from hanging... timings for the 13818x8480 image are scaling down to 50%: 6

Re: [Gimp-developer] concurrent 2.4 and 2.5

2008-09-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:42 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.5.html mentions quite explicitly that this is not going to work. /usr/local is not a separate installation prefix. I use a shell script wrapper to start GIMP that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH, and it

[Gimp-developer] some minor nits

2008-09-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
Not clear these are bugs, I'll gladly file bugs for them if it will help. (1) filters-recently used has a list of recnetly used fiters; these menu items bringup dialogue boxes, so they should have ... after the names, and don't. (2) am I the ony person bothered by having two entries for

Re: [Gimp-developer] some minor nits

2008-09-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 12:46 +0200, peter sikking wrote: the structure is good: 'New...' _must_ remain a first level menu item, agreed with that part... the rest is OK to have in a sub-menu. and with this... My solution is to rename the 'New' sub-menu to 'Create' so I think this is a good

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.5.4 development release

2008-09-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 20:09 -0700, bgw wrote: checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for BABL... configure: error: Package requirements (babl = 0.0.22) were not met: No package 'babl' found Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you

[Gimp-developer] improving the tutorials - let's rock!

2008-09-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
[is there a better list for this? which?] There's a lot of bad tutorials out there. Some of them are on the gimp.org site, some are on gumpusers.com, etc... and I said in Poland we needed some hot tutorial love... Some properties of a good tutorial, I claim, are (1) it tells you at the start

Re: [Gimp-developer] A Photographers View of Gimp 2.6

2008-10-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 10:28 -0700, Stephen DeLear wrote: Just some thoughts on Gimp in general and 2.6 in particular. Some people have already replied, here are some more thoughts from another photogtrapher :D Layers: Somebody has misplaced a box. Where has the layers stack window gone? I

Re: [Gimp-developer] A Photographers View of Gimp 2.6

2008-10-07 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 10:28 -0700, Stephen DeLear wrote:  Layers: Somebody has misplaced a box. Where has the layers stack window gone? I can’t turn on the pane under either layers, image or view. I can create a new layer but not see what layers are on the image. A brief update --

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6.1 release ahead

2008-10-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:05 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: So that is quite a lot to do already, but we could probably add a few more items to this list if there are developers willing to work on them. So, what are your plans for 2.8? An application is of course lots more than a binary... I'd

Re: [Gimp-developer] A Photographers View of Gimp 2.6

2008-10-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 05:23 +, Omari Stephens wrote: Stephen DeLear wrote: [...] Scale to File Size: Many stock sites require an image to be upsized. For example Alamy requires an uncompressed file size of 48megs from a file saved as a 8bit .JPG. It would be useful to be able to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Minimizing when single image or no image open

2008-10-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 08:59 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] if the user hides the toolbox and docks using the Tab key, then iconifies the image window and deiconfies it again, the toolbox and docks will be shown again. I'd usually prefer it the other way. i say usually, because in the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4

2008-10-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 01:44 +0100, Joern P. Meier wrote: [...] By the way, what kind of downscaling is used for the view zooming? GEGL is doing that. I have found that for scanned engravings, where I often scale down to 11% or smaller, that GIMP 2.6 is not only much faster, but usually has much

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4

2008-10-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:46 +1030, David Gowers wrote: GEGL is doing that. GEGL is not doing that. GEGL certainly has display-pyramid code, but GIMP does not currently use GEGL's implementation, it has it's own (app/base/tile-pyramid.c) Oops, sorry, I must have misunderstood soemthing

Re: [Gimp-developer] Dropping two images from Gqview -- Gimp

2008-11-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 21:06 -0500, Brendan wrote: [...] It's very unintuitive. I mean, how often do you want to drop a layer into an image vs. dropping a bunch of images to be opened? More often I do want layers in that case. And also, when the New Image window is the only one visible

Re: [Gimp-developer] Interactive adjustment of image quality for lossy image formats ...

2008-11-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 15:24 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: [...] Check the 'Show preview in image window' checkbox. The way it is implemented is rather hackish IIRC but there's a preview at least. It temporarily adds a layer to the image, to do the preview. You also need to have enabled

Re: [Gimp-developer] Another Investment Route

2008-11-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:18 -0500, Tom Rathborne wrote: Woo -- there's now USD $23.97 behind the project of adding a loupe: http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p132 I'd like to see a stub Loupe Tool in the GIMP ... if the user selects the tool, their browser is sent to the above page.

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

2008-12-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 16:55 +0100, peter sikking wrote: [...] When I had to think of a proper solution for this problem in general, I would have to understand where the needs of many, many users for a non-destructive crop are. And figure out what non-destructive crop really means. Oxymoron, or

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

2009-01-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 08:47 +0200, Sampo Niskanen wrote: [...] I hardly ever wish to grow the image with the crop tool, I do that fairly often, and although a separate graphical way to change the image size would be just as good for me, I do sometimes grow a single layer that way. while I

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

2009-01-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 02:28 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: 2009/1/5 Jakub Friedl wrote: I don't really see a problem with having a small image in a big maximized tab-based window. screen estate is often precious. i often want to see more images at the same time This isn't

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp license

2009-01-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
So finally, I hereby suggest to move to GPL3 asap. Comments from any developers appreciated. I think I only have half a dozen lines of code in there, but in case there's any doubt, it's fine here :) My own code is generally dual licensed, with LGPL or LGPL on the one hand and with the

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:40 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] I am all for improving this situation. But so far no one has come up with a good idea how this could be done. We can't just guess what the user might want to do. We could do better than today. E.g. export to tiff should be probably

[Gimp-developer] layer dock shortcut

2009-03-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
There's a shortcut under the Tools menu to open the toolbox; after quite some time helping people on the GIMP IRC channels, I think it would also be helpful to have a shortcut on the Layers menu to show the layers dock. Once people discover how the Layers dialogue box works, their understanding

Re: [Gimp-developer] New User's opinion

2009-04-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 12:04 -0400, Rob Antonishen wrote: Just wanted to share some (positive) feedback from a person I had been pushing to try gimp: [...] My conclusion is that either the scare stories are wrong, or the latest version of the software is much easier to use than earlier

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save + export spec essentials implemented

2009-05-07 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 17:08 +0200, Jernej Simončič wrote: [...] Show me one person outside GIMP developer community that thinks this is a sane change. I don't think many people think it's a sane change, but that's not the right question. The question is, will the resulting interface be good?

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] alignment rotation

2009-05-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 15:51 +0200, Maciej Pilichowski wrote: [..] I think it would be much straightforward (less thinking) -- I want to make the line from here to there horizontal/vertical; end. Go to tool options, choose corrective mode and preview grid. Now, align the grid with the item in

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] alignment rotation

2009-05-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 19:51 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: Go to tool options, choose corrective mode and preview grid. Now, align the grid with the item in your picture that you want to be horizontal or vertical, and click rotate

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] when pasting without any reference use mouse cursor position

2009-05-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 18:43 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: [...] I don't think it is a good idea to use the cursor as the insertion point since this is both very uncommon and not very practical, the mouse cursor is too volatile for this. More reasonable is to use the selection as the

Re: [Gimp-developer] [wish] center on focused area on zoom out

2009-05-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 18:04 +0200, gg wrote: [...] It seems that there is an implicit assumption in the current behaviour that if the image can fit into the display window it absolutely must be centred. The idea that the pixel under the mouse pointer should stay at the same position on the

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 17:53 +0200, Christian wrote: Looking at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=135649action=view my first feeling is that I use the triangle/circle a lot, to choose complementary colours. I'd actually like it if there were a mark on opposite side of the circle to the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Drawing a line in a GIMP plugin

2009-05-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 15:35 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Indeed. So where is the C API documentation for drawing lines? At the risk of stating the obvious, you do realise, I hope, that GIMP is a bitmap editor, and not a drawing program? If you are trying to create vector art, e.g. SVG or

Re: [Gimp-developer] open/save/export

2009-06-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 10:36 +0200, peter sikking wrote: [...] (1) open typewriter.jpg that came in from my camera (2) do some fun editing (3) save-as to go to typewriter2.xcf.gz could have just used Save here, since you had a new, untitled file. I'd totally expect Save to do either (1)

Re: [Gimp-developer] What would be a better set of default resource ?

2009-07-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 03:53 +, Alchemie foto\grafiche wrote: 1) i agree with Alexia , get rid of all duplicates as the circle soft and circle hard brush. If may be scaled only 1 is needed Yes. For script compatibility, either ship them, or have the brush-choosing code automatically

Re: [Gimp-developer] The Export spec should be augmented to handle an important usecase

2009-07-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 15:22 +0200, peter sikking wrote: [...] but it is impossible/the hack of the month to put widgets in a gtk file dialog I was told. and I do not think it is worth it, the hack of the month. It's only software... gtk+ could be changed, no? -- Liam Quin - XML Activity

[Gimp-developer] keybindings

2009-07-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
I got back from vacation in the UK (yay no mosquitoes) and tried git head gimp today. First, a BIG thank you to Peter and others: the new menu item overwrite is much clearer. I do still have a problem in several gnomish scenarios, but things are indeed getting better. If I use the file manager

Re: [Gimp-developer] keybindings

2009-07-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 13:19 +0200, peter sikking wrote: (1) no default keybinding for overwrite precious file at all. this is the best solution. When the menu item is Overwrite foo.jpg there is no shortcut key (this will be a change to the git version) The other use of the menu item,

Re: [Gimp-developer] What would be a better set of default resources?

2009-07-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:21 +0930, David Gowers wrote: [...] You can already do that for any circle brush. The attribute is called 'Hardness' We would not seriously consider such a level of reduction because it's bad for usability -- it's much more painful for the user to adjust a slider

Re: [Gimp-developer] What would be a better set of default resources?

2009-07-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 10:18 +0930, David Gowers wrote: Hmm, I tend to forget that there are people who use mice for general GIMP work. I can see how this could actually save time then, if you only ever use Eraser with one or two different fixed brushes instead of switching a lot. for what

Re: [Gimp-developer] cant save image with new comment

2009-08-03 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 22:06 -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote: [...] If you think of how some IM clients notify, this 'elevated status' message could pop up from the status bar. It would stay open for 10-15 seconds and then disappear back into the status bar. So I press save, and go for a

Re: [Gimp-developer] cant save image with new comment

2009-08-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 00:06 +0200, gg wrote: Martin Nordholts wrote: [...] I think not saving has merit for large files (especially long png compression) on condition this is clearly put to the user. As Sven said, there are separate issues - (1) gimp doesn't always know the user's intention.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Zero-points and the UI (was: Re: Bug #164774)

2009-08-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 17:45 -0800, Christopher Howard wrote: [...] . In other words, the user could have the rulers tell him that point 0,0 begins at, say, the center of the image, instead of the top-left. This is a feature which would be useful to web developers and perhaps also game sprite

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 06:37 +0200, David G. wrote: I don't know why people mention so much that if you create a single window Gimp that that it will not allow you to put your tools in a second monitor because I used Photoshop also many times and despite it being a single window program it

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-07 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 09:50 +0200, peter sikking wrote: Liam wrote: Right now gimp is broken for working on multiple projects (the file/save changes have rendered it too hard to keep track of where images are being exported) but the use case is central (I think) to how single window

Re: [Gimp-developer] Updating plugin dialog after click in main window

2009-09-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 06:05 -0700, fgingras wrote: What I'm looking for is a way for the plugin to know when it should update its own dialog, which would be the time when the user uses the color picker and clicks somewhere on the opened image. I'd say look at something like the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/Export Patch

2009-09-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 10:16 +0100, James Hughes wrote: Can someone advice me the best place to start in making a patch to the UI to revert the 2.7 version to using the 2.6 style save dialogue. If you can bear it, I'd say wait a little longer - the design is still evolving, and I think it's

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:51 +0930, David Gowers wrote: Perhaps a split-panel option for single window mode would resolve this. (I believe we could still only reasonably show a maximum of 2 images at once; this is simply a limitation of the single-window format AFAICS.) Do you mean that the

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 13:00 +0200, jolie S wrote: When I work in GIMP what happens to me quite a lot is that I click just next to a window of an image I'm working on and all my GIMP windows are not shown on my screen anymore because I activated the application I had visibly open below the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save + Export proposal

2009-10-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 22:24 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: Hi, On 10/05/2009 02:10 AM, photoco...@gmail.com wrote: But even if conceptually different in practice , both operation are always needed for the every edited image: is needed to Save the original AND to export as jpg or png .

Re: [Gimp-developer] Progressive escalation of help

2009-10-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 22:30 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: [...] Provided the documentation project is a separate one indeed, I see two solutions: 1. Make it downloadable during installation, like Michael suggests. 2. Leave .exe files where they are now, but keep amount of clicks to

Re: [Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 01:29 +0100, peter sikking wrote: the obvious way is Select-None. how many more ways are there? Save the image as png, quit gimp and restart. :D go to channels dialogue, make an empty channel, and do, channel to selection. (and then go to layers and select a layer in

[Gimp-developer] some current 2.7 issues

2009-12-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
Some nits ,some -- especially (2) and (4) -- bigger than others... (1) The file-export dialogue action button says save, not export (sounds really minor but given the save/export changes, can actually be confusing) (2) The default save location should not be ~/Documents in the case that

Re: [Gimp-developer] some current 2.7 issues

2009-12-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 09:24 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: [...] app: Have an Export button, not Save, in export dialogs Thanks for fixing that! (2) The default save location should not be ~/Documents in the case that a file has been imported - it should default to the directory

Re: [Gimp-developer] Secure logging of GIMP actions

2009-12-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 18:16 +0100, meetthegimp.org wrote: [...] Complete misunderstanding. They want to be able to prove what has been done to the image in the processing. As in: Is this scratch really on the object and has been revealed from the raw photo with a contrast enhancement or has it

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Use Glade + GtkBuilder for file-png.c save_dialog()

2010-01-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 17:05 +0200, Aurimas Juška wrote: [...] Why not to convert XML's to C code when compiling distribution ? XML's are large and not very fast to parse. Large - that's subjective. XML is not a compact format, though. Not very fast - 50 MBytes per second isn't unreasonable

Re: [Gimp-developer] RE : Drawable copying / manipulation in plugin development

2010-01-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 23:04 -0500, François Gingras wrote: They say images are worth a thousand words... So what I'm basically trying to do is turn this image: http://mat.ulaval.ca/~fgingras/misc/1.png into this one: http://mat.ulaval.ca/~fgingras/misc/2.png Do you have to do it on

Re: [Gimp-developer] On bug 373060 - allow to easily switch to last used tool

2010-01-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 15:59 +0100, Damien de Lemeny-Makedone wrote: [...] Regarding the implementation, such a file specific set of tool presets would require to have them - gradients, brushes, palettes and fonts included - embedded in the xcf file. Is this currently possible ? If not, can

Re: [Gimp-developer] gtk-doc 1.13 problem with recent gimp git (+solution)

2010-01-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:25 +1030, David Gowers wrote: Recently I found that GIMP from git would not compile, as it couldn't get past the ./autogen.sh step.. It would produce quite a few errors, like this: gtk-doc.make:53: GTK_DOC_BUILD_HTML does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL

Re: [Gimp-developer] On bug 373060 - allow to easily switch to last used tool

2010-01-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 19:21 +0100, peter sikking wrote: would you not be helped with 2 user presets for the dodge/burn tool, which you would choose alternating during using the tool? Yes, especially if I could bind keystrokes to switch to them. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Finally I get the GIMP Pro

2010-01-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 00:17 +0200, SorinN wrote: ...and seems to be real check please this link : http://www.photo-editor-pro.com/ And is it any good? There is nothing wrong with charging for GIMP; they say on their Web site that it is distributed under the GPL, and they must make source

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.8 schedule

2010-01-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 21:53 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: [1] http://www.chromecode.com/gimp/gimp-2-8-schedule.ods clean up on-text editing, is there a better description? This could usefully be put somewhere people could sign up for things. Some of the bugs appear to have been fixed already

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