Re: Space key & border area ideas

2001-02-04 Thread Alan
> - Alt + Space: swap tools. You have Current and Alternative (you > guessed, Alt key), hitting it makes swap the places. If you choose > another tool via menus / keys / buttons it becomes Current, and the > previous one becomes Alternative. I really like this idea, as it eliminates the need for

Idea: Temporary tool assignment

2001-02-02 Thread Alan
Not sure if this has been discussed before, but after reading the article at http://www.advogato.com/article/239.html I noticed this paragraph (on the subject of keyboard shortcuts): PhotoShop is slightly superior (for the moment) in that it has temporary tool assignment. You can have a pa

Re: RFC: The future of The GIMP

2000-12-12 Thread Alan
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:08:03PM +0100, Lourens Veen wrote: > I realise that it's probably too late already, but dare I say C++? Did > anyone ever even consider this? > > As for the plugin distribution, I think the nicest way would be to have > a plugin manager that would enable you to download

Re: Gimptool in Gimp 1.0.4

2000-08-01 Thread Alan F. Ho
Perhaps have the users run rpm -ql gimp-devel | grep gimptool. Alan

Re: Gimp to MacOS

2000-07-24 Thread Alan F. Ho
It would be lovely if there was a high quality open source OCR program available. I think there might be one or two people working on ocr, but the projects still seem to be fairly young. -Alan

Re: Getting mouse coordinates from inside a gimp plug-in?

2000-06-27 Thread Alan F. Ho
ve lots of pictures and would like to automate the process, you could even write a script to handle the GIMP part non-interactively. This has the advantage of probably being more accurate than using the mouse for coordinates, but perhaps this is not what you wanted. If that's the case, sorry... Alan

Re: XCF loader for gdk-pixbuf

2000-06-07 Thread Alan Cox
> Here in Germany, a contract needn't be in written word, spoken word would > suffice. Although you might have to convince people that the person spoke > certain words you claim (s)he did. In other words: you need a witness. > > Not that I 'd say that this is a contract or anything -- IANAL and s

Re: XCF loader for gdk-pixbuf

2000-05-31 Thread Alan Cox
> Until very recently the code in xcf.c and xcf.h had no copyright notices > at all in them. I don't think this puts those files into the public domain > but I think it does indicate that the authors may be flexible in their > licensing terms. Actually it indicates there are no rights to use th

Re: Is "Add alpha channel" really necessary?

2000-05-16 Thread Alan
nes switching need be done. Power users have full control and newbies can simply select Background w/ alpha if they wish. Alan

some wierd font problems

2000-02-08 Thread Alan
true type), or what... It's hard to explain. Head to http://arcterex.ufies.org/gimpfont for screenshots and hopefully a more coherant explanation :) The original image is up there (bottom of the page), so hopefully someone else will find the same problem. Regards, arcterex -- Alan -=|=- &l

color picker inconsistancies

1999-12-28 Thread Alan
ring colors over, or even better, enable the user to be able to use the fore/background color from the main program, so there is no need to have to pick a color for your drop shadow (I use this as an example only because that is what I'm useing at this moment :) Regards, Alan -- Alan -=|=-

ASCII2Image segfault

1999-10-20 Thread Alan Bailward
Hitting 'p' to procede lets me continue on, except that all the entries under xtns->script-fu are empty (the menus have nothing in them), I assume because script-fu has been killed or something. -- Alan Bailward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arcterex.ufies.org The difference between do