Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-23 Thread Scott
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:11:25PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should probably give yourself more that a few crops to get used to the new layout before shouting too loud, you may actually like some of the new features once you've found them. Yes, it *does* have lots of new

Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-23 Thread Alex Pounds
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:29:31PM -0600, Scott wrote: So two more mouse clicks. I'll learn, I'll learn But the deal with the lower-left/upper-right handles being movers and the other two being stretchers has been a feature of gimp for a long time. I haven't played with the latest CVS

Re: Fwd: Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-22 Thread gg
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:18:58 +0200, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I define an alias to make life easier: alias gncvs='cd /svn cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/gnome ' You do know that you have to do this step only once, don't you?

Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-21 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:29:31PM -0600, Scott wrote: I also completely fail to see any reason why areas outside the image should be selectable by a crop tool. If I lay a paper photograph on a table and take an xacto knife to it, do I reasonably expect to cut out part of the table along with

Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:32:50AM -0600, Scott wrote: Using the 2.2 version, the interface of the crop tool was very handy for me. Typing Shift-c brings up the tool; a quick move of the mouse creates a selection area; over to the tool-option menu that automatically pops up, type in 300 and

Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-20 Thread Michael Schumacher
Scott wrote: How can a tool so simple in concept and so frequently used as crop have been bollixed up so badly? By working on it. If you are interested in the progress and want to influence future development, you should try to get GIMP built directly from CVS. Even current 2.3 releases

Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-20 Thread William Skaggs
From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...lots of stuff...] I don't know if this is the proper place to post this sort of thing, but I do hope that you developers will consider listening to some of us casual users, as the interface has gotten way too overloaded and user-unfriendly. I seriously am

Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-20 Thread Scott
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:36:48AM -0700, William Skaggs wrote: Scott, thanks for the feedback, although you could try to be a bit less emotional about it, since this is after all a development version. Sorry, I tend to get emotional over tools like the Gimp that I have known and loved for

Fwd: Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-20 Thread gg
--- Forwarded message --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:23:37 +0200 On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:29:31 +0200, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone point me to a hint on how

Re: Fwd: Re: [Gimp-developer] More interface rantings

2006-10-20 Thread Michael Schumacher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I define an alias to make life easier: alias gncvs='cd /svn cvs -z3 -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/gnome ' You do know that you have to do this step only once, don't you? Afterwards it's just cvs up. And the release notes