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 worry

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
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 and

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 other websites for Free software. As a long time GIMP user

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

[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 Clipboard

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 hasher in GLib that should do what you want. The 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

2008-04-02 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 complete and stable. Ie. the first class

[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

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] 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

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

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 file

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 to say something nice

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

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

2008-03-16 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 rotation

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 copied something and was using the clipboard brush

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. ... I

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 create

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp_patterns_get_list

2008-03-11 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 Gimp

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 displayed in the toolbox

[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; It is not for Linux

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'

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 taskbar that is not suitable

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. Tearoff menus

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? I think

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.) There are very

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

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

[Gimp-developer] Fwd: GIMP Levels operation fix

2008-02-04 Thread David Gowers
, 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 in the Levels op

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, and

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 and

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 terms of graphs, they think in terms

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, gradientrc,

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, you

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 they didn't

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 Chris's benefit : it means that the context that was being used

[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

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 white upon entering qmask mode and b

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 engraving, or

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

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 the

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 CS3 and

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. I see it

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,

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 looked at Opera, as it has been suggested here. It has very good

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 as

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

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 from the

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 been used

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 GEGL (I

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 stylusSendCoreEvents

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 =

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 how it

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 I am not

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/porting.html The last two items on that page seem to be the more

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 algorithm to

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

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

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. Hopefully

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 be better

Re: [Gimp-developer] Downscaling quality.

2007-08-05 Thread David Gowers
On 8/6/07, Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of weeks ago somebody commented about the quality of the downscaling in Gimp. iirc there was a patch that improved the quality (that was bumped for future releases) and there was a discussion about the pertinence of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] 4 annoying things in Gimp

2007-08-04 Thread David Gowers
On 8/5/07, damianzalewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. When designing complicated project for example cd cover I often have to chain and unchain layers. Would be nice if gimp would have option - unchain all. Maybe, but you can already do this in two clicks 1. shift-click on the layer chain to

Re: [Gimp-developer] GAP

2007-08-01 Thread David Gowers
On 8/1/07, Anke Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello like everybody else, I am very exiting about the release of the Gimp 2.4. Though I was wondering, if GAP will be running on the new Gimp. I tried to install it to the 2.3.19, but as you proberbly would have known, it doesn't work and you

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp-developer Digest, Vol 58, Issue 51

2007-08-01 Thread David Gowers
On 8/2/07, Esteban Barahona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and one of 1 Dimension Menus which is a bit more matured (see attachment... It looks like either you forgot to attach the file, or the mailing list software filtered it out because it was too big. ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-30 Thread David Gowers
On 7/31/07, Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Gowers wrote: Yes, I'm aware of that. I mean to perform boolean operations on the paths tehmselves. Well I think that GIMP should avoid doing that, and instead expect you to do it with inkscape; transfer of paths between

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-29 Thread David Gowers
On 7/30/07, Stephen Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, I found a gimp-2.3.18-i586-setup.exe and installed it (after a system backup). I wanted to check the functions you mentioned without having to set up a build from source code. Anyway, the way the freehand select is working in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-27 Thread David Gowers
On 7/27/07, Stephen Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David, Thanks for the reply. I am using the Windows version of 2.2.17. In this version the issue that I am having an issue with can be reproduced in any image by selecting the freehand select tool, draw a circle in the image creating a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread David Gowers
On 7/26/07, Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen: The Bezier tool is better suited to the tasks you're describing. Using freehand tool as a precision tool (i.e. for background extraction) is a bad idea. Freehand tool is intended to make coarse selections or tweaks in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread David Gowers
On 7/27/07, Stephen Kiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guillermo, Thanks for taking the time to reply to my request. It appears that you and I have a fundamentally different point of view on how to best select regions in an image. Let me throw out a couple of observations before I address some

Re: [Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

2007-07-26 Thread David Gowers
On 7/26/07, Guillermo Espertino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Gowers wrote: You can already do that. Right-click in the Paths dialog, all the standard operations (replace, add, subtract, intersect) are available. Unless you mean boolean operations that modify the paths themselves, rather

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

2007-07-21 Thread David Gowers
BTW, Nick Coghlan said: The most likely culprit is that some of the code is using PyMem_Free on a pointer allocated with PyObject_Malloc (or vice-versa). This has always been illegal, but prior to 2.5 the Python memory allocator tied itself in knots to try to avoid crashing when client code broke

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

2007-07-19 Thread David Gowers
On 7/20/07, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only tested pyGEGL with the 2.4 version of Python. It possible (or very likely?) that something has changed in the 2.6 version of Python. I don't have the 2.6 version installed at the moment so I can't investigate this

Re: [Gimp-developer] On deep-pixel (large number of bits per channel) support...again

2007-07-14 Thread David Gowers
On 7/14/07, Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is this: where is the 8-bit per color channel limitation in GIMP? That is, which bits of the source code limit the GIMP this way? I ask because I took a brief look at the source, and it seems the internal color representation is

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor

2007-07-14 Thread David Gowers
On 7/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:03:18 +0200, Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll try to follow the analogy without this becoming rediculous: [misrepresentation and reactiveness cut] We all know that jpeg is lossy. You use it with suitable

Re: [Gimp-developer] default vs. original vs. current settings

2007-07-14 Thread David Gowers
On 7/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:23:39 +0200, Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does current need to be saved as a third option? It is either equal to default or original unless it is set during a save in which case it become the new value

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-10 Thread David Gowers
On 7/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:46:44 +0200, peter sikking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? Let's have a look at the product vision. 'High-end' is the word I want us to focus on. Please dont distort this by taking one word out of context.

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] selections workflow???

2007-07-09 Thread David Gowers
On 7/10/07, Tom Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im going to go nuts - i do not understand the gimp work flow with selections. When I paste an element on to a layer, i can no access the area of the layer not covered by the element. In on specific example, I moved the contents of a layer

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] selections workflow???

2007-07-09 Thread David Gowers
On 7/10/07, Tom Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, sounds like Chris suggestions may do the trick. I will try it our 1st thing in the morn when I get back to work. It looks to me like you moved the layer itself rather than its contents, i used the move tool with not hot keys.

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-08 Thread David Gowers
On 7/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:12:03 +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 14:53 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does your reply indicate you take a this feature not a bug approach here and you think is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Doing an action for each color in an indexed color-palette

2007-07-05 Thread David Gowers
On 7/5/07, Roberto Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello and best thanks first, but it doesn't work correct on my xp-pc with gimp GIMP 2.3.10. After private consultation with saul some testing and some changes for windows (backslash \) now it works fine. Essential change is, that saul's ;;

[Gimp-developer] valgrind results

2007-06-27 Thread David Gowers
Sven, you suggested that I run valgrind to locate the source of a bug related to eyedropping. These are the highlights of the results. This part is probably unrelated to the eyedropping bug (bug #450802), but may be serious: It happens after the image is loaded; don't know whether it's before or

Re: [Gimp-developer] Doing an action for each color in an indexed color-palette

2007-06-27 Thread David Gowers
On 6/27/07, Roberto Uhlig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, has/knows anyone a script/plugin (an idea) to go color by color through an indexed color-palette and doing an action for each color? I d like to create from a picture with an optimized color-palette with ca. 5-10 (may be 1-256)

Re: [Gimp-developer] A few simple patches

2007-06-26 Thread David Gowers
On 6/27/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:50 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless what he's implemented is bad why not just comit anyway until you get around to doing it better/diffeently? I rejected the patch for several reasons, all of them

[Gimp-developer] A few simple patches

2007-06-25 Thread David Gowers
filepath.diff adds a 'file path' field to the 'Image Properties' dialog; I did this after some discussion between gg and myself on the importance of being able to find out the path easily. Image_metadata.diff changes the title used by the 'metadata' plugin for its window. Mainly, it's just so

Re: [Gimp-developer] GEGL is no longer vapor. (was: improving image scale: reduction)

2007-06-15 Thread David Gowers
On 6/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:13:03 +0200, Øyvind Kolås [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: modifying that code base to deal with this properly will most probably been seen as more lasting contributions than changing code that eventually only will live

Re: [Gimp-developer] Building imagemap plugin requires flex?

2007-06-07 Thread David Gowers
On 6/7/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 13:10 +0930, David Gowers wrote: Well, only if the source dependency for the various lexers has changed (eg. recently with the The GIMP - GIMP global replacement). A rebuilt version of the relevant generated files

Re: [Gimp-developer] Building imagemap plugin requires flex?

2007-06-07 Thread David Gowers
On 6/8/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 19:31 +0930, David Gowers wrote: As far as I can see, updated versions of the generated files have been committed to SVN. What exactly is your problem? Don't know. I just did the standard './autogen.sh;make

Re: [Gimp-developer] image indexed mode, major hole

2007-06-06 Thread David Gowers
On 6/7/07, Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Sven Neumann One cannot do this, in general, because an indexed PNG stores a single alpha value for each palette entry. An image with an unrestricted alpha channel would most likely lead to more color/alpha combinations than the 256

[Gimp-developer] Building imagemap plugin requires flex?

2007-06-06 Thread David Gowers
Well, only if the source dependency for the various lexers has changed (eg. recently with the The GIMP - GIMP global replacement). A rebuilt version of the relevant generated files should probably also be updated into SVN before release. Currently, flex version 2.5.33 or higher seems to be

Re: [Gimp-developer] CMYK palette info from Photoshop

2007-03-31 Thread David Gowers
On 4/1/07, Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/31/07, Hal V. Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might consider using a color transform using ICC profiles. For example you could use sRGB as your generic destination color space and perhaps a SWAP profile for the CMYK side. Once you

Re: [Gimp-developer] memory manage in python-fu

2007-03-12 Thread David Gowers
I am hereforth asking you to apologise, if possible, both in private and on the list for this message. We are runing a project needing I cannot sincerely do so, in this instance. I do not apologize for expressing my amusement, unless I judge that the situation was genuinely worsened by my

Re: [Gimp-developer] memory manage in python-fu

2007-03-11 Thread David Gowers
On 3/12/07, D. Stimits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not found any python-fu way to close a file, or to reclaim memory after creating an image or layer. Is there such a thing? Is there instead some sort of garbage collection? hahahaha! gimp.delete(image) or gimp.delete(layer) #only do

Re: [Gimp-developer] transformation drift [was: preview window does not work]

2007-03-08 Thread David Gowers
On 3/8/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If you rotate by exactly 90 degrees, this is always done with INTERPOLATION_NONE, no matter what you select in the tool options. Perhaps this is the culprit? An offset seems unavoidable if the transformation is performed without

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

2007-02-23 Thread David Gowers
On 2/24/07, Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to be used (1x, 2x, 3x, 5x, etc.). It doesn't soom to differ significantly from existing Navigation window It does! Navigation window provides a zoomed out view of the entire image -- this provides a zoomed in view of the area that

Re: [Gimp-developer] using layer/channel as mask

2007-01-24 Thread David Gowers
On 1/23/07, Kevin Galligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to script something that seems relatively simple, yet I've spent the better part of today stuck at one little step. I have started naming things with curse words, so I figured I'd reach out for help before I start throwing

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