Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: RFC: eliminating tool destruction and addingbetter caching support

2001-02-22 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 23 Feb 2001, Michael Natterer wrote: That lessens but does not solve the problem that the code is more complicated because of the destruction of tools due to state changes. I'm quite a bit biassed about wether we should destroy tools after use or not, but IMHO a tool should simply be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: couple possible TODO items

2001-03-29 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-03-29 at .26 -0700): Ugh, speaking of error, all so-called "letter" paper isn't necessarily the same size. I've had two "letter" papers vary in size by almost half a centimeter! Oooh well,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: web site

2001-05-21 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 21 May 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, I'd suggest you use this mailing list to discuss the future of www.gimp.org so we can all contribute. I'd also suggest you don't try to tackle it all by your own but try to find a group of people willing to do the work. Adrian and I discussed the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Perl server problem

2001-06-01 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 2 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's simple: i had(!) a script which loaded and analyzed thousands of (checked) jpegs and (unchecked) gifs. Broken gifs tend to hurt gimp badly, with effects ranging from gimp filling all virtual memory to

Re: [Gimp-developer] UI remarks

2001-06-08 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: Agreed. Just pick a reasonable default based on the amount of memory in the system. And please use libgtop to figure that out instead of some horrid hack like cat /proc/meminfo. If we're going to depend on Yet Another Library, might I

Re: [Gimp-developer] question of context

2001-06-12 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Gustaf Barkstrom wrote: Hi, I joined this newsgroup to see if I could get some help compiling gimp 1.2.1. Am I in the right place? Is there a help list for sysadmins etc. who are having compilation/configure problems? deja news (groups.google.com) has yielded

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GIMP Tip of the Day messages

2001-10-06 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 6 Oct 2001, Daniel Egger wrote: Am Die, 2001-10-02 um 19.14 schrieb 1002042874: there is probably no need for XML as there are no attributes etc. If you use XML for texts like tips or dialogparts then attributes are being used for specifying the language the text is in. We can also

Re: [Gimp-developer] Current work

2001-12-04 Thread Nathan C Summers
I'm currently in end-of-semester crunch time, so I won't be working on Gimp until after all of my semester projects are done. The IRC addicts are probably already aware that my plans for after that are: * implement tool plug-ins with as little disturbance to the rest of Gimp as is reasonable.

Re: [Gimp-developer] RFC: Tool Plug-ins

2001-12-17 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 17 Dec 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Nathan C Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some horrible kludge could also be dreamed up involving GTKPlugs. That would move the windowing system dependance down to the GDK level, but would also make things ineligant, and it would

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-06 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Nick Lamb wrote: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/chocbox2.png ^^^ Looks very nice, but please, please call the last field Copyright instead of Digital Rights Management. Rockwlrs

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-06 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Dave Neary wrote: If we go with the more generic metadata option, then we would have the option of gimp-metadata-*. But that's minutiae at the moment. Isn't the fact that it's a parasite metadata-y enough? I suppose it's possible to attach a parasite to an image for

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-07 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Dave Neary wrote: Marc Lehmann wrote: There is no such thing as non-standard naming in this case. exif doesn't provide a standard name, so you need to make one up. Wether oyu make up one or 50 doesn't really matter, as long as it's documented. That's the major

[Gimp-developer] pluggable tools

2002-02-09 Thread Nathan C Summers
Stage 1 of tool plug-ins is complete. That means that loadable modules can be used as tools. An example plug-in (just the color picker hacked to be a plug-in instead of a builtin) is available at http://students.cs.byu.edu/~rockwlrs/testmodule.tgz That file should be untarred in your

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: tricking the cvs server

2002-02-22 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Carol Spears wrote: On 2002-02-22 at 1256.39 +0100, Sven Neumann typed this mail: Hi, Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tonight i decided to try the cvs gimp-1.3. i found it very difficult to convince the cvs server that i wanted the new gimp now,

[Gimp-developer] tool plug-in changes

2002-02-22 Thread Nathan C Summers
I am going to need to make some changes to facilitate tool plug-ins. First, a good amount of code needs to be shared between the core and the plug-in. I've split off a libgimptool to contain this code. Second, a lot of the information contained in the gimptool object needs to be syncronized

Re: [Gimp-developer] tool plug-in changes

2002-02-23 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 23 Feb 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: Nathan C Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] a good amount of code needs to be shared between the core and the plug-in. I've split off a libgimptool to contain this code. [snip] Any comments? I will probably commit tommorow. well, if you

Re: [Gimp-developer] some 'fresh' ideas :-)

2002-02-24 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Branko Collin wrote: Here's a PS 7 announcement: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/newfeatures.html I wonder if that texture generator is a sort of resynthesizer plug- in? The healing brush sounds like a good idea. We could probably implement it using a

[Gimp-developer] libgimptool: what needs to be shared

2002-02-24 Thread Nathan C Summers
There are three kinds of sharing that needs to take place. The base classes (GimpTool, GimpSelectionTool, GimpTransformTool, GimpPaintTool, GimpDrawTool, and k! GimpObject) need to share their structure definitions in order to maintain and ensure binary compatibility. The other tool

Re: [Gimp-developer] amp photoshop curves

2002-03-31 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Nick Lamb wrote: On 29 Mar 2002, at 11:37, Piotr Legiecki wrote: Does Gimp 1.3 work include making it possible (easier? maybe it was already possible) to provide plug-ins/ modules that make Gimp understand more + different types of palette, gradient, brush etc.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-09 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 9 Apr 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: Someone wanted a way to a enter zoom value numerically, so we might want to use an entry/spinbutton instead. Seems to me that an entry/spinbutton has all the advantages of the other ui proposal with the extra advantage that you can quickly and easily go to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Notes from the Guad3c GIMP BOF session

2002-04-10 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 10 Apr 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Nathan C Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Provide an API that allows the plug-in developer to use the same function for manipulating the image as well as the preview. The preview would have to provide a drawable API and pixel-regions

Re: [Gimp-developer] siod (Script-Fu) string-length limitations

2002-04-12 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Jeff Trefftzs wrote: (2) Is there a sensible workaround for the (apparently) limited string length? Have you tried using lists of single charactors instead? Note quite as memory efficient, sure, but you can make a list as big as available memory. Rockwalrus

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tool Plug-In Changes

2002-04-24 Thread Nathan C Summers
On 23 Apr 2002, Michael Natterer wrote: Hi Rock, sorry I did not comment on this earlier, I was quite busy since returning from Guadec. After a few weeks of silence, I figured that you didn't have anything more to say, so I started commiting again. I have my own schedule, too. As

Re: [Gimp-developer] Modifying GIMP

2002-04-25 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Hai Nguyen wrote: Hi, I am trying to modify GIMP to add some extra features but it's not really something that I can do as plugin, does anyone know of any where I can find detailed information on the way gimp actually works, any sort of info especially on the actual

Re: [Gimp-developer] Modifying GIMP

2002-04-25 Thread Nathan C Summers
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Hai Nguyen wrote: I did post a message on here before, basically what I would like to do is to modify GIMP to be able to handle 48-bit images, I would then like to write a plugin that would then be able read in a digital cameras RAW mode image (36-bit interpolated into

[Gimp-developer] Pie Menus

2002-04-26 Thread Nathan C Summers
Thumbing through the Gnome GTK Widget Repository, I found that someone has already implemented pie menus for GTK. I'm still not sold on having pie menus in GIMP, but at least it means that if we do find a way to make useful pie menus, it won't take much work to implement them. Hmm, maybe we