Re: [Gimp-user] Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Gimp at the Linuxtag 2001

2001-03-16 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
I get back from the US on the 6th. I could probably help out the 7-8th if i could get some help with my travel expenses. I may not be the best person though since I don't speak a word of German and I'm not a coder. but let me know. bex ___ Gimp-develope

Re: [Gimp-developer] CVS web ?

2001-03-23 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
the gimp cvs is part of the gnome cvs. i believe it can be accessed via the web but i forget how. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] show jpeg preview time

2001-07-09 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
If you know what all this does, would you rough a help file we could add to the system? Of course check what is in there already.. someone might have explained it. but i dont think so. I don't see it in an older version of the dialogs directory. It would be nice to have a file explaining the op

Re: [Gimp-developer] Thin lines using pencil

2001-08-29 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> IMHO, the pencil tool should be left alone for consistancies' sake > and there should be a new tool to deal with the very special case > of drawing single-pixel-wide hard-edged lines. > > This hypothetical gadget could use Bresenham's algorithm or something > like that because it wouldn't *NEE

Re: [Gimp-developer] Translating The GIMP

2001-08-29 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Wed, 2001-08-29 at 15:44, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "Branko Collin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 29 Aug 2001, at 11:22, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > > > I plan to merge translations from the stable gimp branch ("gimp-1-2") > > > to the HEAD branch very soon now and hereby ask all tr

[Gimp-developer] suggestion for color to alpha

2001-08-31 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
it might be useful if the color to alpha filter could a) interact with the color picker or b) pull the information about the image background from the color tool stuff and use that as the color to replace. it isnt easy for a lot of users to select the color in the color selector without being abl

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

2001-10-05 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> it would matter if you could name an advantage it would give us. I don't > mind adding a simple XML-parser to GIMP-1.4 since it's pretty simple > using GMarkup from GLib-2.0, but I don't want to do so without a good > reason. hmm.. XML could be quickly converted to HTML and used on the web

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

2001-10-05 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> XML is supposed to make information more portable into the future, > right? > > GIMP is being used in classrooms lately, it would be nice if we have the > option to print all gimp documentation in any form we should choose. I'm not as familiar with XML conversion tools as I am with SGML, but

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug week like thing for GIMP?

2001-10-24 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> *) I am not necessarily advocating that we do a bug week -- as the > Mozilla press review points out, a large number of people who would > normally not thought of themselves as 'developer material' apparently > can be involved with the Mozilla bug week because the UI of the > browser is cod

Re: [Gimp-developer] Retouching pictures...

2001-10-26 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> > On the other hand, using the first alternative, the choice of the source may > > be used for other tools (e.g. to cut and paste from layer A to layer B, we > > work on layer B, setting the source on layer A and it would not be necessary > > to switch layers). > > If you can come up with a

[Gimp-developer] Head Translation Breakages

2001-11-10 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
Just to warn everyone before translators start freaking out at Sven, I am proofreading all original strings in the head branch of GIMP CVS. I don't know how long this will take me. I will send out another mail when I am mostly done. While this should improve future GIMP texts, it will break all

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.3.0

2001-11-13 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> please no bugreports yet for the 1.3 series, it's just too buggy -- > we'd drown in reports :) Mitch: Can you or Sven make a formal announcement to this effect to all relevant mailing lists and other places where this was announced? With the announce on users too, I fear you will soon have bu

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.3.0

2001-11-13 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 23:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 13 Nov, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > > > make them. Especially if bugzilla doesn't have a GIMP 1.3 thing. I > > have this fear of people mistakenly submitting 1.3 bugs against 1.2 > > because 1.3 sin't t

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.3.0

2001-11-14 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> Can somebody explain to me why bug reports are A Bad Thing in this > case? > > I can understand that with code that is changing fast, yesterday's > bug report can be yesterday's news, but if bug reports are of no use > at all (in other words, the developers only fix the problems they can >

Re: [Gimp-developer] One wrong string in gimp-1-2 branch

2001-11-20 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> Bex is only working at the core right now. Your patch is already applied > in my tree so it will certainly find its way into HEAD. I wouldn't mind > if you commit it yourself however. Bex is slow right now because she is fighting an ucky cold or something. Other people also paying attention

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug week like thing for GIMP?

2001-11-27 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> While we're at it -- why does GIMP 1.3 suddenly have a lot of new tools > (Select by color, Adjust brightness, etc.) that you can find in the other > menus too, sometimes just as easy? (The icons look a lot like the same for > me, and IMHO they're mostly clutter :-) ) > > Is there any way to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thingfor GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
I think we can start looking forward to the future soon. Mitch and Sven are making real progress in there. Hopefully at some point they can start outlining what is going on and making it clear what others can do to get involved. I am guessing that once the base structure is changed all plug-ins

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thingfor GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 15:30, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "Rebecca J. Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mitch, Sven.. when you have time.. Can you make a to do for developers > > that want to help? > > http://developer.gimp.org/gimp-todo.h

Re: [Gimp-developer] Developers and users (was: Bug week like thingfor GIMP?)

2001-11-27 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> Okay, so I misjudged the state of development Gimp is in. I remember trying > to find out some time ago how hard it would be to contribute things to Gimp, > but I gave up pretty soon. In another thread Rebecca Walter suggested > creating a TODO for developers that want to help. I'd like to s

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2?

2001-11-27 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 22:48, Laramie Leavitt wrote: > > So... > > Is anyone actively working on GIMP 2? Well.. YES. Since 1.3 is the path to GIMP 2 and a lot of people are working there butts off on 1.3.. I would say that is a BIG HUGE YES! No one can even think about GIMP 2 until GIMP 1.3 is

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

2001-10-06 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> perhaps I'm imaging something wrong here, but I think graphics would be > overkill for the tips. Stuff like this belongs to the help pages if you > ask me. It would probably help to allow links to help pages in the tips > dialog and it would also be much simpler to implement than text flow >

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

2001-10-06 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 12:49, Daniel Egger wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 02:06:15AM -0600, Nathan C Summers wrote: > > > We can also use XML for its original purpose -- a markup language. Even > > just adding an emphasis tag can allow tip writers to be much more > > expressive. > > That's an

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

2001-10-07 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
I think that regardless of what the original format is, translators should be given and work with po files. Christian Rose is right in his reasons. I have a few more to add. 1) The translator can't accidentally edit the wrong place and mess up. 2) It is what translators are used to working with

Re: [Gimp-developer] I18n of gimp tips

2001-10-07 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> The format I've outlined above still has one problem unrelated to i18n: > Do we want to allow paragraphs in tips for nicer layouting and how do > we represent them? By adding a ... tag ?! No. Any tip long enough to require an additional paragraph should not be a tip. That information should

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: your so called optimizations and why wedon't like them

2001-12-03 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> When Gimp first moved to CVS, and access to the source tree went from a > strong central maintainer to many people with CVS access, the reason I was > told that it would work is that if something is committed that the > community agrees is not what it wants, the whole of the patch can be > r

Re: [Gimp-developer] Current work

2001-12-04 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
Continuing Bolsh's thread... My current project is to proofread all the strings in the program. I am trying to standardize things like proper use of "plug-in" so the user is presented with a consistent use of language in the interface. I am also trying to improve standardization of strings as m

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: your so called optimizations and why wedon't like them

2001-12-04 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
Okay. This has gone too far. Both sides made mistakes. How about we all admit that? Mitch and Sven should have talked to Daniel offlist first. Perhaps requiring patches posted to gimp-dev is going too far. Daniel: GIMP isn't ready for optimizations. You should have talked to Kelly before chan

Re: [Gimp-developer] Current work

2001-12-05 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
GNOME has been working on a new help browser that works with XML and scrollkeeper directly. It is worth checking. Also worth a look is the project David Merril is working on that will make it possible to use the XML files and Scrollkeeper stuff with any browser. It is called Scrollserver I think.

Re: [Gimp-developer] (no subject)

2001-12-05 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 08:35, Fabian Frédérick wrote: > What's up with those cool Perl plugins from the registry ? Not yet > included in 1.3 ! The basic problem is that if every plug-in was included in the distribution, it would be huge. No solution has yet been found for dealing with this p

[Gimp-developer] Plug-in and script discussion

2001-12-06 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
We were just having a small discussion on irc that really should be discussed here, so I will get it started. Overall, the script and plug-in collection need to be cleaned up. First, it needs to be determined what plug-ins still have active maintainers. If someone out there is bored, it would

Re: [Gimp-developer] Include plug-in in Gimp distribution

2002-01-11 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 19:01, Chandhaketh Nutthavudh wrote: > Hello there: >I'm currently developing a photoshop-liked's Terazzo for Gimp and willing > to distribute it soon. One choice is to distribute it with gimp registry > website and I'm also considering the possibility to bundle it with

Re: [Gimp-developer] Tools vs. Plugins

2002-01-15 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
Please, please, please try to get this right. When discussing GIMP, it is NEVER Gimp. It is NEVER plugin. GIMP has plug-ins. Thank you. the resident proofreading compulsive, bex ps--this rant is addressed at everyone who does it wrong, not just the author of this post. On Tue, 2002-01-15 a

[Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-20 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
Please everyone test this how to and see if it is lacking anything. It is intended to be a beginner tutorial for compiling gimp 1.2 from CVS. I want everyone to read it even if you don't have time to test it. Carol and I worked really hard on it. I wrote it as an intermediate tutorial, but carol

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimpcon2

2002-01-20 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 05:53, syngin wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:07:04 -0500 > Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > > > i would like to have it here, personally: > > http://www.bbwellington.com/ > > except that they have only non-smoking rooms and don't mention having an > > internet conne

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Raphael's edits, was Re: test this howtonow

2002-01-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
> I guess you are joking but I want to state this nevertheless: > > The version from CVS should always build and indeed it does so almost > all of the time. If someone has trouble to build we ask you to pester > whoever might have broken the build (check the ChangeLog!). If there's > an obvious

[Fwd: Re: [Gimp-developer] gimpcon2]

2002-01-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
stupid bex hit wrong button. --- Begin Message --- > I wouldn't mind going to Brussels but February 16 & 17 sounds a bit too > close. At least me would have trouble to make it there. WAY WAY too soon. We should shoot for late may IMO. I don't think anything sooner could be feasibly arranged

Re: [Gimp-developer] Message reorganization in gimp HEAD complete?

2002-01-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 01:10, Christian Rose wrote: > Is the message reorganization in gimp HEAD completed? There are quite a > few changes, and I'd like to know if it's more safe to start translating > these without too many expected radical changes coming. > > Before anyone reminds me I'd like t

Re: [Gimp-developer] Menus, keybinding et al, first draft

2002-02-17 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 11:48, Christian Rose wrote: > lör 2002-02-16 klockan 06.59 skrev Marco Lamberto: > > >Zoom In + [Yes, changed, a bit more logical, no?] > > >Zoom Out- > > > > If you have an US keyboard you'll notice that while the minus "-" i

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Menus, keybinding et al, first draft

2002-02-17 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
As any looked into how all this will work with different window managers? What window managers grab what keys and can the window managers easily be configured to use alt if gimp isn't using it? It is important to check this since we will otherwise end up with lots of whiny users who can't figure