Re: [Gimp-developer] Unified transform tool

2011-04-18 Thread Michael Grosberg
Ofnuts ofnuts at laposte.net writes: The spec for the scaling, when using the from centre constraint, says translate the opposite side by the same distance which implies that the centre is equidistant to both sides and thus is still the centre defined above. An arbitrary fixed point would

Re: [Gimp-developer] Unified transform tool

2011-04-17 Thread Michael Grosberg
Ofnuts ofnuts at laposte.net writes: Symmetry mode is not well defined... In your drawing, you drag on top-right and the top-left follows (vertical axis), but it could as well have been the bottom-right (horizontal axis), and even the bottom-left (radial). As I did mention, it was not a

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP vs Photoshop

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Grosberg
Olivier olecarme at gmail.com writes: 2011/3/8 Michael Grosberg grosberg.michael at gmail.com Debi Rapson drapson at mansd.org writes: Can you point me in the direction of a list of places that actually use GIMP for photo retouching and graphics creation. Hmm. GIMP is not well suited

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP vs Photoshop

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Grosberg
Øyvind Kolås pippin at gimp.org writes: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Michael Grosberg grosberg.michael at gmail.com wrote: Olivier olecarme at gmail.com writes: 2011/3/8 Michael Grosberg grosberg.michael at gmail.com These concepts do transfer to GIMP, and if one is generally

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP vs Photoshop

2011-03-07 Thread Michael Grosberg
Debi Rapson drapson at mansd.org writes: Can you point me in the direction of a list of places that actually use GIMP for photo retouching and graphics creation. Hmm. GIMP is not well suited for professional photo retouching - it lack the necessary CMYK color model (among other things). I'm

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP Roadmap - wiki page

2011-03-02 Thread Michael Grosberg
Martin Nordholts enselic at gmail.com writes: On 03/02/2011 04:33 AM, GSR - FR wrote: Hi, enselic at gmail.com (2011-03-01 at 2214.48 +0100): Thanks, I've added your items as well as mapped features into GIMP releases up to GIMP 3.8. (I implicitly include both 'color adjustment

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP Roadmap - wiki page

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Grosberg
Martin Nordholts enselic at gmail.com writes: On the developer meeting I got an action to create a draft of a roadmap. It can be found here: http://gimp-wiki.who.ee/index.php/GIMP_Roadmap It has has a list of features we prioritize, as well as a list of at what GIMP release we expect

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP Roadmap - wiki page

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Grosberg
Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com writes: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Kevin Cozens kevin at ve3syb.ca wrote: I'm a little uneasy at the moment about the ban working with numbers for transformations comment. It would be nice (IMO) to have a dockable that displays the numbers of the

[Gimp-developer] Pencil Tool

2011-02-26 Thread Michael Grosberg
I've begun working on GIMP documentation so GIMP is on my mind a lot lately. So, I have a suggestion - remove the pencil tool, and instead, add a checkbox to the brush tool with an antialiased label. My reasoning is that for a new user, the difference between brush and pencil is not evident from

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Grosberg
LightningIsMyName lightningismyname at gmail.com writes: I'm starting this thread to list ideas for Google Summer of Code 2011, for the GIMP project. Since in the last year collecting ideas was done partially by the mailing list, let's try it again this year and keep most ideas here.

[Gimp-developer] Problem with aspect ratio on brushes

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Grosberg
Something I noticed in Gimp 2.7.3 (updated recently from matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn). The problem is with selecting a non-uniform aspect ratio for brushes: if you set it to something too high, you begin to see spacing between the brush's strokes on the canvas, so instead of a continuous line you

Re: [Gimp-developer] application

2011-02-06 Thread Michael Grosberg
Martin Nordholts enselic at gmail.com writes: So I suggest you look for something you'd like GIMP to do better, then start working on that. If you bump into problems, feel free to ask for advice on this list. Isn't there some prioritized task list for Gimp? I believe GEGL integration is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop ?compatibility? mode

2011-02-01 Thread Michael Grosberg
Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com writes: On 2/1/11, Christopher Curtis wrote: I would agree that there are problems with the way people tend to interact on this list. One of which is the knee-jerk reaction whenever an email comes across with the word Photoshop in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop ?compatibility? mode

2011-02-01 Thread Michael Grosberg
Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com writes: *sigh* http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/etc/ps-menurc Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org I will refrain from expressing my opinion on undocumented, undiscoverable features. Now only a help page is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop“compatibility” mode

2011-01-31 Thread Michael Grosberg
Christopher Curtis ccurtis0 at gmail.com writes: I don't know if you're intentionally setting up a stawman here, but inkscape is a vector editor, blender is a 3D modeler, and gedit is a text editor. These applications aren't in the same domain as GIMP and MyPaint. Don't dismiss it so

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-25 Thread Michael Grosberg
Sven Neumann sven at gimp.org writes: Despite the fact that GIMP has a very clearly defined vision and very interesting features on the roadmap, it may be true that this isn't communicated well enough. But this is a matter that should be discussed on the gimp-web mailing-list. What we are

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Grosberg
Liam R E Quin liam at holoweb.net writes: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 01:19 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg [...] the most requested feature at questions time, was also this one. Luckily, work in this area is planned, with fixed-size layer

Re: [Gimp-developer] about getting involved in developing Gimp

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Grosberg
xianghang liu xianghangliu at gmail.com writes: Hi, I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C developer. I am a first-year PhD student in computer vision. I would like to start with fixing some bugs and then implement new features and my final objective is gsoc

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help with new default resources in 2.8

2010-07-07 Thread Michael Grosberg
Martin Nordholts enselic at gmail.com writes: Hi all, If you would like better default resources in GIMP, now is a great opportunity to do something about it. We want GIMP 2.8 to ship with a good set of default resources, but we need help from our artist community with this. Right

Re: [Gimp-developer] Compiling Gimp 2.7.1

2010-07-02 Thread Michael Grosberg
Cameron Gregory public at bloke.com writes: http://blog.bloke.com/2010/06/howto-build-gimp-2-7-1-from-source-step-by-step-ubuntu/ (uses 10.04 LTS Ubuntu) very easy to use :) Cameron Thanks Cameron and Owen! I managed to install it according to those instructions. But something

Re: [Gimp-developer] Compiling Gimp 2.7.1

2010-07-02 Thread Michael Grosberg
Alexia Death alexiadeath at gmail.com writes: Its a known issue at least for me with GTK. Under some obscure conditions GTK stops calling the input callback for non-extended devices, if extended devices are present. It's a really strange bug, because randomly on some gimp starts everything

Re: [Gimp-developer] Compiling Gimp 2.7.1

2010-07-02 Thread Michael Grosberg
Alexia Death alexiadeath at gmail.com writes: Is this a bug or the current status of the tool? Its a bug in GTK with extended devices and I believe a direct result of your fix to your previous problem. In your case, with tablet not working anyhow, just disable any and all extended devices

[Gimp-developer] Compiling Gimp 2.7.1

2010-06-30 Thread Michael Grosberg
Is there an official guide for compiling the latest development release, Gimp 2.7.1, on Linux? I have Ubuntu 10.04 but I'm not a programmer, and the installation instructions on the gimp.org website are geared towards people who know what they are doing. Which I'm not - and thereofre they are

Re: [Gimp-developer] Compiling Gimp 2.7.1

2010-06-30 Thread Michael Grosberg
phanisvara das phani00 at gmail.com writes: On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 22:15:06 Michael Grosberg wrote: Is there an official guide for compiling the latest development release, Gimp 2.7.1, on Linux? i found this article very helpful: http://www.chromecode.com/2009/12/best-way-to-keep

[Gimp-developer] misleading / missing install instructions on website

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Grosberg
Whenever a new bugfix release is released, the Gimp homepage has a news item. In it are install instructions saying: Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads section. Now, I'm using Ubuntu so if I scroll down to the Ubuntu

Re: [Gimp-developer] Roadmap for 2.7 / 2.8 ?

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Grosberg
Martin Nordholts enselic at gmail.com writes: Eckhard M. Jäger wrote: Dear Gimp Developers, the opensource mag T3N asked me about writing an outlook about GIMP in 2009 and what users can expect this year. But to be honest I think it is best if this magazine does not write about

[Gimp-developer] Problem with Gimp on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-04 Thread Michael Grosberg
I just installed a clean Ubuntu 8.10 on my system, and there seems to be something wrong with the transient toolbox and docks. Gimp 2.6 is not supposed to have taskbar buttons, but as it's currently set up on my system, they do appear. I was able to remedy the situation by adding (transient-docks

Re: [Gimp-developer] The toolbox Wilber problem

2008-10-03 Thread Michael Grosberg
Martin Nordholts enselic at gmail.com writes: After spending quite some time mostly in our own #gimp and the freenode #gimp answering questions, I can see two questions that are particularly frequently asked. A. How do I get the new window management to work on Windows, and B. How can I

Re: [Gimp-developer] ‘no image’ window: prog ress...

2008-03-28 Thread Michael Grosberg
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 22:08 +0100, peter sikking wrote: Michael Grosberg wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 20:58 +0100, peter sikking wrote: check it out when you have the chance. Where can one see the new spec? same old place: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/No_image_open_specification

Re: [Gimp-developer] ‘no image’ window: prog ress...

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Grosberg
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 20:58 +0100, peter sikking wrote: hey GIMPsters, let me give you an update here. in the last 10 days the concept and spec has matured quite a bit. the feedback and plain old bug reports, both here and on the IRC went into what is being built right now. check it

Re: [Gimp-developer] Haze on GIMP 2.4 image - Should this be a bug report?

2008-01-06 Thread Michael Grosberg
Mark Lowry vabijou at yahoo.com writes: Two questions: 1. Shouldn't Try to use be unchecked by default at installation? This would prevent some confusion, at least it would have for me. GIMP aims to be a respectable high-end graphic editor and as such should support color management

[Gimp-developer] Paging Jernej Simoncic

2007-11-20 Thread Michael Grosberg
Jernej, if you are reading this, I was wondering if you received my email with the Gimp-for-Win website makeover (as I got no reply so far - did I get your email address wrong?) , and what you think of it. Michael ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] finishing the roadmap for 2.6 and beyond

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Grosberg
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:05 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, I'd say we close the submission of proposals for the roadmap at this point and proceed to the next step. Which is collecting the tasks that have been described and putting them into a list for further discussion. Do we have a

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Grosberg
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 15:21 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday, November 5, 2007, 21:38:52, Richard Hirner wrote: What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: Open brushes folder which opens the appropriate folder with Explorer / Nautilus / whatever needed? That would be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Grosberg
Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com writes: Solve the transparency problem, and the criticism will go away. You say what to do, but you don't say how. Very simple: Peter has a blog, right? and very occasionaly, he posts something relevant to the Gimp UI, such as the

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-05 Thread Michael Grosberg
Michael Schumacher schumaml at gmx.de writes: My suggestion for GIMP 2.6 - and the only thing I feel able to contribute to - is the reorganization of the user directory. Not sure about the standards on Linux, but in Windows, if we take a hint from the likes of Adobe or Autodesk,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Grosberg
gg at catking.net writes: I dont think Nathan's analysis is that far off the mark. The interaction with the UI team is very one way and definately gives the impression of please go away , we're busy. The so called brainstorm blog is more like a super market's suggestion box than a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Suggestions for 2.6: hopefully not very difficult

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Grosberg
Sven Neumann sven at gimp.org writes: Hi, On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 13:16 +, Michael Grosberg wrote: The first is to take, if possible, the tools dialog, and incorporate it into the toolbox tab in the preferences. Then remove the tools dialog as a separate dialog. That's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Is default replace mode in blend dialog of RC3 replaced, with normal in SVN?

2007-10-20 Thread Michael Grosberg
Sven Neumann sven at gimp.org writes: Hi, you are of course right that the current dialog is less than ideal. However changing the initial mode to Normal would be incorrect, even though it would improve the usability of the Fade dialog quite a bit. I will think about it some more and

[Gimp-developer] GIMP VBR brushes

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Grosberg
to name them so they will be at the beginning and had to use the suffix brush. Michael Grosberg ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer