Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-05 Thread Valerie VK
> > This is why I suspect it to be a transparency problem and not really > > a process problem. People actually Won't criticize a process if they > > think it is doing a good job. In the case of the GUI team, we don't > > know if it's doing a good job. In fact, we don't see a job being done > > at

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-04 Thread Valerie VK
> Well, I agree with the gist of your message... but one thing needs to be > said: > Designing a good UI doesn't require the same amount of people that > implementing > it in code does. This is why I suspect it to be a transparency problem and not really a process problem. People actually Won't c

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-03 Thread Valerie VK
I suspect the true "problem" isn't one about the process, but one about the perceived results. When you think about it, people rarely criticize a project Just for the process. People criticize MS Windows for being closed-source and thus full of bugs and functionality problems, but nobody criticizes

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap

2007-10-27 Thread Valerie VK
> 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 for adding features and such. I blame my lack of und

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap

2007-10-26 Thread Valerie VK
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 have no idea for the Parameters feature, so apologies for no

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-25 Thread Valerie VK
> So, an important decision must be taken, imo. Plan the 2.6 version as a > "new core" version (with important improvements in the technical area, > but maybe not that visible for the final users), or a "new features" > version. If this isn't defined, there is a risk to fall in a long > develop

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-25 Thread Valerie VK
Gimp 2.4 is great! On roadmaps: could enhancement requests be grouped by category somewhere? Going through the list of enhancement proposals in Bugzilla is rather awkward to say the least. I do like how some programs have used a wiki, like Firefox 3 and Inkscape. Eventually, for Gimp, each wiki

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor

2007-07-13 Thread Valerie VK
How about creating the following buttons on the jpeg save console? - "Save at original image compression value" - "Save at user-specified compression value" (insert current value of used-specified quality) - "Change user-specified compression value" It can be abbreviated as the following: Save at

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm 07, top?10 GIMP user requests...

2007-05-23 Thread Valerie VK
> Quoting peter sikking's weblog: > (http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2007/05/lgm-gimp-project-overview.html) > > "ALSO NOT PAINTER > the focus for GIMP is to work with ?found? images;" > > I do not understand the reason for this restriction. Myself, I am not > a painter. I do not

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 release date

2007-04-16 Thread Valerie VK
> That's why we need a Gimp PRO, Inkscape PRO, Scribus PRO - someone, a > Firm / Govern / Foundation / Linux Distro / Billionaire ...or a > mixture of them must hire core developers of all 3 projects - put them > into a big WEB / DTP Core Linux project > and manage development and releases. If I

[Gimp-developer] Sub-modes for shortcuts

2007-04-10 Thread Valerie VK
Thanks to Sven for pointing out that I initially posted in the wrong place! Also, I haven't used Gimp 2.3 yet, so I apologize if I'm repeating things that are already inside. Basically, while checking out Inkscape, I misunderstood its shortcut system at first and thought that the "space" button to