Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-07 Thread J. Grant
Hi Michael, You might want to have a look at XNest, or the following GIMP plug-in if you are working on Win32: http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892 I don't know if there is an equivalent for Mac OS X, though. Thanks for the link. This is great, it's got a lot of what I was interested in. If

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-03 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, J. Grant wrote: Hi, I wonder if there is any way I can donate money towards development of a specific feature addition in GIMP? We are currently working out two things which may be of interest - first, we are working to have a way to make tax deductible donations to the GIMP via another

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-03 Thread J. Grant
Hi Sven, IMHO, the plugins could be left un-bound to any window as they are atm. Or is there a hard coded underlying attachment between the plugin and parent windows required for it all to work? Are you saying that plug-in dialogs should be handled differently than core dialogs? If we want to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-02 Thread Pedro Gimeno Fortea
On 05/02/2004 02:01:37 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: (3) the windows that are below it are not hidden by the application But that's _the_ major advantage of the current user interface. It allows you to easily use GIMP together with other applications such as web browser and file managers. That's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Pedro Gimeno Fortea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Making them transient for the application window would be enough; it's not necessary for them to be inside the app window. Only windows which are permanent need to be: image windows, docks and such. However I don't know if a window in a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-02 Thread J. Grant
Another argument is that we would certainly not want to drop the current user interface since it works well for a lot of people. So I seriously doubt that any user would object against having WiW in the preferences. That's not my point. But adding WiW to the GIMP code will almost certainly

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-02 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another argument is that we would certainly not want to drop the current user interface since it works well for a lot of people. So I seriously doubt that any user would object against having WiW in the preferences. That's not my point. But

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-01 Thread Branko Collin
On 1 May 2004, at 11:02, J. Grant wrote: I wonder if there is any way I can donate money towards development of a specific feature addition in GIMP? Hello J., I guess there are two ways: 1) Unconditionally donate money to the group. This may buy you goodwill, and it will enable GIMP

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-01 Thread Michael Schumacher
J. Grant wrote: Hi Branko, Thanks for your reply. While I love the flexibility the separate windows of the GIMP software provide. A friend and I think it would be very useful to have a single window styled layout (as well as the present flexible window position interface), where all GIMP child

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-01 Thread J. Grant
Hi Branko, Thanks for your reply. While I love the flexibility the separate windows of the GIMP software provide. A friend and I think it would be very useful to have a single window styled layout (as well as the present flexible window position interface), where all GIMP child windows are

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-01 Thread Branko Collin
On 1 May 2004, at 13:51, J. Grant wrote: Thanks for your reply. Could you please cut my reply from yours if there are no specific points of my reply that you are addressing? It saves unnecessary scrolling on my part. While I love the flexibility the separate windows of the GIMP software

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The consensus so far seems to be that the developers don't want to touch such a feature. It's hard to find the real arguments against the feature through the forest of emotional arguments that the discussion has produced so far, but it seems

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-01 Thread Pedro Gimeno Fortea
On 05/01/2004 07:16:32 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: There are a couple of good arguments against this feature. Basically it is agreed that WiW is a bad concept that is being dropped by all major software companies nowadays. It was only ever introduced to work around the problem that some

Re: [Gimp-developer] Donation for GIMP features

2004-05-01 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Pedro Gimeno Fortea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (3) the windows that are below it are not hidden by the application But that's _the_ major advantage of the current user interface. It allows you to easily use GIMP together with other applications such as web browser and file managers.