Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-09 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 09:46:29 +0100, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Laxminarayan Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:45:36 +0100, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I used it earlier today and it fit my needs. I don't see why we should remove

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Laxminarayan Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the way, what i mean is, when such confusions occur, like whether or not to remove a tool from the toolbar, isn't it nice to have a poll engine and make the poll public? No, I don't think such questions should be decided by means of a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-09 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Thursday 09 December 2004 06:45, Laxminarayan Kamath wrote: OOps, Sorry Sven, Gmail is nice but is confusing for replies. Will be care full next time. By the way, what i mean is, when such confusions occur, like whether or not to remove a tool from the toolbar, isn't it nice to have a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-09 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 09:27:02 -0200, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 December 2004 06:45, Laxminarayan Kamath wrote: OOps, Sorry Sven, Gmail is nice but is confusing for replies. Will be care full next time. By the way, what i mean is, when such

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-08 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Wednesday 08 December 2004 04:17, Austin Donnelly wrote: I think I was probably the last person to do any major work on the scissors tool, and that was in 1999 to port it to the (then new) tile-based world. The code when I took it on was a software Vietnam; a complete mess. I had to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-08 Thread Simon Budig
Austin Donnelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [scissors tool] I think I was probably the last person to do any major work on the scissors tool, and that was in 1999 to port it to the (then new) tile-based world. The code when I took it on was a software Vietnam; a complete mess. I had to read

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-08 Thread Raphaƫl Quinet
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:31:10 +0100, Simon Budig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Austin Donnelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [scissors tool] - the point editing interface sucks; I merely made the existing one work but it might be interesting to see if it could use the same code from the Path tool

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I introduce about 50 beginning students each year to the GIMP, and in my experience, this tool seems to be one of the best piquant tools for the students to use. If anyting, I'd make it easier to undo the last point added and make it easier to close the curve when done, but please don't remove

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-07 Thread Daniel Egger
On 06.12.2004, at 19:44, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: But nowadays, who seriously uses it? I do. It's not very useful to mask an object in a low contrast environment but it works perfectly well for instance to mask an digitally photographed object against a somewhat distant background to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-07 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 08:38 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I introduce about 50 beginning students each year to the GIMP, and in my experience, this tool seems to be one of the best piquant tools for the students to use. I second that. If anyting, I'd make it easier to undo the last point

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-07 Thread David Neary
Hi, Tomas Mraz wrote: If anyting, I'd make it easier to undo the last point added and make it easier to close the curve when done +1 And that annoying bug where you can't have anchor points within 8 pixels of the left or top edges (and possible the other edge too). I am sure I've seen

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-07 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
/me shame on, and goes learn how to properly use it. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

RE: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:gimp- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Skaggs Sent: 06 December 2004 19:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool [...] I looked at the code not too long ago, and my

[Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-06 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
Hi! I should've done this __very__ earlier on the dev. cycle. But the fact is that I think developers should seriopusly consider the visibility of the scissors tool on the tool box. I mean - it is a good hack, it is there for historical reasons, and the graphic algorithyms behind it are nice

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-06 Thread William Skaggs
Joao wrote: That said, I raise the question: Should the scissors tool be visible by default in the toolbox? Well, the real problem with it is that the edge-hugging algorithm sucks. It would be a very useful tool if it actually worked. So I suppose my attitude is: a) It's too late in the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I should've done this __very__ earlier on the dev. cycle. But the fact is that I think developers should seriopusly consider the visibility of the scissors tool on the tool box. I mean - it is a good hack, it is there for historical

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-06 Thread David Neary
Hi, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: But nowadays, who seriously uses it? I use it all the time to get a first rough draft when cutting out shapes. It's miles quicker than using bezier, and since selections are just masks, I convert the selection to a mask and fine-tune it afterwards. I have