[Gimp-developer] Angled guides - was Re: 2.4 and how to continue from here
A Friday 09 November 2007 13:01:06, você escreveu: Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:36 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: One other smallf eature I will want to add is the ability to add free- angled guides. I have this almost complete on my codebase, just .XCF saving for it is missing. I should commit that early on 2.6 cycle. I would like to get some feedback from the UI team and from some artists on this. And of course the patch would have to be reviewed before it is committed. I am not yet convinced that this is an important feature and I also have the impression that it's just added ad-hoc without seeing the big picture. It certainly has the potential to cause a lot of problems. I had never added a UI for it - I add then through scripts. And except for bugs with the guides thenselves (which i ironed out as I developed then), I never had any side effect from using them. Snapping to these guides or intesections of these guides and others works fine. If tehre are potential greater problems, just a larger userbase would be able to detect it, and then we just fix it, or remove the feature if it needs very large changes to other program areas to work properly. And rest assured I would not commit it without having an ok from you first. Of course I'd like more feedback from users and the UI team, but nearly everyone I had mentioned this had liked the idea. It is of little use in a program like GIMP where free handed drawing is not emphasized, but sometimes it is just nice it is there. (like for stamping a brush repeating it at a gven angle). My idea for UI is just writing some code for the rotate tool to be able to rotate guides, just as the move tool can move guides. i think that once tested this won't get in anyone's path and will be a little nice feature for GIMP. regards, js -- Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Angled guides - was Re: 2.4 and how to continue from here
On Nov 9, 2007 7:54 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: My idea for UI is just writing some code for the rotate tool to be able to rotate guides, just as the move tool can move guides. i think that once tested this won't get in anyone's path and will be a little nice feature for GIMP. Arbitrary angle guides would be really useful for visual aligning layers/selections along imaginary angled line. But only if precise rotation of the guide is possible. And there might be a technical challenge to implement visual moving of angled guideы same way we do it now with hor/vert guides. Anyway, expect a lot of feedback from me if this feature will have green light :) and please share your scripts if it's not ;) Alexandre ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Angled guides - was Re: 2.4 and how to continue from here
Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:54 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: I had never added a UI for it - I add then through scripts. And except for bugs with the guides thenselves (which i ironed out as I developed then), I never had any side effect from using them. Snapping to these guides or intesections of these guides and others works fine. If tehre are potential greater problems, just a larger userbase would be able to detect it, and then we just fix it, or remove the feature if it needs very large changes to other program areas to work properly. Without a user interface for it, there is zero user base. And most problems are detected only after a feature is released in a stable release. And at that point it is too late to fix a fundamental design problem. Perhaps I should just review the patch before we continue. But in the meantime someone should think about the user interface for this. Without one, it is pointless to add this. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
