Re: [Gimp-developer] What makes the GIMP toolbox special?

2003-11-25 Thread Nick Lamb
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:25:01PM +0100, Raphaël Quinet wrote: I am questioning this because I think that the fact that the toolbox is special is an artificial limitation that should go away in a future release in order to make the user interface more consistent and easier to use. Artificial

Re: Clipboard (was Re: [Gimp-developer] Screenshot plug-in status)

2003-09-12 Thread Nick Lamb
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 12:38:26PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Oh, will you? I am sorry but if I remember correctly we postponed this until after 2.0 since we hope that until then there well be an accepted Free Desktop standard for this. Our prefered solution would be to offer the image data as

Clipboard (was Re: [Gimp-developer] Screenshot plug-in status)

2003-09-11 Thread Nick Lamb
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:49:42PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: I only ask that you take a moment and consider if there might be a way to make things faster for the user which is where speed really counts. Could some of the handling of the system clipboard be done automatically and only when

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP GBR format spec

2003-07-16 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:35:42PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: I don't think we should use a compressed archive. Instead the binary data in the archive should be compressed. That allows to choose the best compression scheme for the data and to combine different compression techniques in the

Re: [Gimp-developer] state of libgimptool and assorted hacks

2003-03-17 Thread Nick Lamb
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:38:59PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: I'm surprised by the silence. Should I interpret it as an approbation? Sounds pretty bad. The GIMP is developing a history of adding cool features which then become unmaintained and are ultimately just turned off in CVS. Maybe future

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's the status of mng support?

2002-11-18 Thread Nick Lamb
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:50:16AM -0500, David Weeks wrote: Also, I've noticed my gimp png's transparentcy isn't showing correctly in Microsoft IE. Is this a bug with gimp, or MSIE? Windows IE bug, known by Microsoft for at least five years. Re: MNG support GIMP needs better animation

Floats (was Re: [Gimp-developer] Dreamworks, etc.)

2002-11-02 Thread Nick Lamb
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:35:10PM +0100, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: some places use 32 bit float This probably ought to be on our horizon too. Modern FPUs are very fast and RAM gets ever cheaper. Are there any concrete advantages (other than the 50% saving on storage) for

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Fwd: Bug#148412: gimp1.2: Gimp is not consistently licensed]

2002-06-14 Thread Nick Lamb
OK, so the big problem is Script-Fu because it's fairly embedded and it's somewhat hairy. The ordinary plugins aren't much of a problem, in the very worst case they can be removed from the distribution temporarily. Surely the #1 thing someone should be doing (preferably someone who actually

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Fwd: Bug#148412: gimp1.2: Gimp is not consistently licensed]

2002-05-29 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:26:07PM +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote: ./gimp-1.2.1.in (Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis) ./gimptool-1.2.1.in (Owen Taylor, Manish Singh) This is gibberish. Someone bolted on some boiler plate which claims that the whole of the GIMP is covered by an

Re: [Gimp-developer] Preparing the 1.2.4 release

2002-05-03 Thread Nick Lamb
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:12:12PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: I didn't say how soon it will be possible. This depends on a lot of things, mostly http://bugs.gimp.org/stable-milestone/. #77283 was actually fixed for 1.2.x already, but I've just done the extra stuff to mark it FIXED in both

Re: [Gimp-developer] amp photoshop curves

2002-03-30 Thread Nick Lamb
On 29 Mar 2002, at 11:37, Piotr Legiecki wrote: So I'd like to load amp files from photoshop from Curves window, just like native gimp curves. On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 11:10:12PM +0100, Branko Collin wrote: Regis Rampnoux recently made a plug-in which can be found at

Re: [Gimp-developer] valgrind memory debugger

2002-03-21 Thread Nick Lamb
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 05:27:16PM +, Austin Donnelly wrote: I've just heard about Valgrind, a memory debugger much like Purify, but which works on Linux. Better/ Different than Purify because it treats the code as a black box, and so it finds bugs in your compiler, libraries and so on.

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

2002-02-06 Thread Nick Lamb
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/chocbox1.png http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/chocbox2.png A potential UI for a textual metadata editor using Dublin Core's element names (and of course internally it could use any parasite names that were deemed fit, but since parasite names are arbitrary

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] tga down-top patch.

2002-01-20 Thread Nick Lamb
[re-formatted for your 80x25 pleasure] On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:22:44AM -0600, Russell Valentine wrote: Gimp Developers: This patch was made against The Gimp stable 1.2.2 file plug-ins/common/tga.c. It allows a user to save a tga in down-top format instead of top-down format.

Re: [Gimp-developer] test this howto now

2002-01-20 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:15:09PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: I have committed a rather inelegant change to gimp-1-2 that should remove the need to have glib-2.0 and pkg-config installed in order to compile the gimp-1-2 branch. Please let me know if you experience any problems with the build.

Re: [Gimp-developer] 1.2.x CVS build

2002-01-07 Thread Nick Lamb
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:15:23AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: Read your own words and thing again. If you were having problems to compile gimp-1.2 from CVS months ago, why didn't you go ahead and ask? There are only few people left working actively on gimp-1.2 and they do communicate (by

[Gimp-developer] 1.2.x CVS build

2002-01-06 Thread Nick Lamb
I was hoping that the problems I had with 1.2 CVS were temporary and that the attitude I got when trying to get it working was a result of someone's long day. That was back in early December (or was it November?) On a system that was perfectly adequate for building Gimp a few months ago I now

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF support added to ImageMagick

2001-12-16 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 02:58:20PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: my whole point was that we should try to come up with a reasonable interchange format for multi-layered images instead of using XCF which isn't really well-suited for this task. Introducing XCF support into various other apps will

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF and Gimp parasites (was: Current work)

2001-12-04 Thread Nick Lamb
Maybe I said this before, I can't remember, but the standard for trying to describe generic metadata is Dublin Core. So before burning too much midnight oil trying to organise metadata into neat categories at least type Dublin Core into a search engine. Even if one decided that DC itself was

Re: [Gimp-developer] mng

2001-11-18 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 06:38:32PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: GIMP is an image manipulation program, mng is an animation format. so what? He's wrong anyway, MNG is a multi-image format, with the primary target being replacement of GIF anim features because those features were missing in PNG

Re: [Gimp-developer] tga loader patch

2001-09-19 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:51:05AM +1000, Steven Goodwin wrote: This is a patch and long-winded README for the targa file format plugin (tga.c). It simply checks the value of the extension area offset before reading it from file. An offset value of 0 means that no extension area exists in

UTF8 in GTK+ 2.0 (was Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: patch for gimp/po/fr.po)

2001-08-29 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:58:52AM -0500, Kelly Martin wrote: In my opinion, a library which crashes when fed inappropriate external data is buggy by definition. Let's be more specific: Does the GTK+ UTF8 implementation meet the requirements for security purposes laid down in Unicode 3.0.1

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: xwd screen shot problems

2001-08-27 Thread Nick Lamb
Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: I tried video, and I got a blue image... fun. I run with depth 24 and fbbpp 32, so I guess this has something to do about it, cos when moving the video window, I get blue areas (I am still discovering the nice and bad things of the new driver for my

Re: [Gimp-developer] RFC: support for multi-image files and API change for load/save plug-ins

2001-08-08 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:54:53PM +0200, Raphael Quinet wrote: If we want to avoid 404 errors from the web servers, we could decide to use # instead of / as a separator between the real file name and the extra path to the image. I initially thought about this and then rejected the idea

Re: [Gimp-developer] RFC: support for multi-image files and API change for load/save plug-ins

2001-08-07 Thread Nick Lamb
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:28:15PM +0200, Raphael Quinet wrote: 4) Feedback Any comments? IMHO you'd be better off just using: wad://home/raph/slimy.wad/p/alien.foo This can be handled today in Gimp 1.2, see url.c Non-interactive stuff would go exclusively through these URLs while the

Re: [Gimp-developer] errors in the TGA plugin

2001-08-01 Thread Nick Lamb
(Petr CC'd in case he is not in fact on the list) On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 04:41:57PM +0200, Petr Mejzlik wrote: I tested it by generating a 5x5 grayscale image with the following pattern: Interestingly I found a new bug in the Gimp 1.2.x TGA loader while testing these 5x5 grey images. This

Re: [Gimp-developer] glib/gtk+ 2.0 port

2001-07-26 Thread Nick Lamb
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:27:59AM -0400, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: For CVS gimp, it is definitely not a problem to require the current bleeding edge GTK. Malcolm did you ask me first? If you didn't, how did you come to the conclusion that it wouldn't be a problem for me (a developer, even if

Re: [Gimp-developer] 1.2.1 crashes on indexed colour conversion

2001-06-06 Thread Nick Lamb
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:37:23PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: Argh, I knew the heavy usage of g_assert() in the convert code would bite us some day. But assuming the assertions aren't invalid we have found a bug that would otherwise be very hard to find? IIRC People who don't care why their

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: JPEG comment in existing files

2001-06-03 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 04:22:40PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: If what people want is to change the comment without changing the image data, they should use rdjpgcom to read the comment and wrjpgcom to overwrite / append. I've always planned to build a pair (at least)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plug-ins, menus and user interface

2001-05-21 Thread Nick Lamb
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:47:33PM +0200, Raphael Quinet wrote: One of the things that has been mentioned several times while discussing the distribution of plug-ins is the fact that the menus are too crowded, and new users can easily get lost. The user interface is indeed a significant