Re: Bug report #5523 - Image/Render/Fittext plug-in

2000-01-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 10:44:34AM -0100, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: get_text_fontname is called with a font size argument of -112, which of course doesn't make sense, and causes the sigsegv. i'll look into that ;) Maybe a constraint is missing somewhere. Having corrected the subroutine

Re: The Gimp: New Generation

2000-01-29 Thread Dean Johnson
Marc Lehmann spontaneously blurts out: The solution to too large menus is a better way to display them, not demanding that I use the same font as you. Exactly! Scaling is one of the the biggest problems with modern (especially Open Source) GUI design. Stuff gets written to accommodate the

Re: The Gimp: New Generation

2000-01-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:27:16 -0600 (CST), Dean Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: EVERY gui developer (casual or not) should be required to read Tufte's design books before being allowed to code. Heh. Send me copies and I'll gladly read them. :) Kelly

Re: The Gimp: New Generation

2000-01-29 Thread Dean Johnson
Kelly Lynn Martin spontaneously blurts out: On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:27:16 -0600 (CST), Dean Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: EVERY gui developer (casual or not) should be required to read Tufte's design books before being allowed to code. Heh. Send me copies and I'll gladly read them. :)

Colormanagement

2000-01-29 Thread Martin Weber
Here is an interesting colormanagement for future GIMP releases: http://www.abaforum.es/martim/lcms.htm

feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Dean Johnson
Howdy, Is there a feature request database for Gimp? If not, I would like to request that a bug group for feature requests (preferrably with some level of urgency) be added to the bugtracker on sourceforge. It would be nice to have an exhaustive list of what people wanted and not depend on

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:28:47PM -0600, Dean Johnson wrote: Howdy, Is there a feature request database for Gimp? Yes, file a bug as usual, but set your (is it urgency? priority? I don't remember, but I'm pretty sleepy right now) to show that it's a feature request/ request for enhancement.

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 04:38:52PM -0500, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: If by "color table" you mean the indexed color palette, that will require core modifications (I believe) because I don't think palettes are exposed to plug-ins well enough to do operations on them. What do you mean by "well

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:53:47 +, Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: All the existing plug-ins that work with palettes (INDEXED images would be even more useless than they already are if no plug-ins could work with them) use calls like: I guess it's GIMP palettes that are badly exposed. IIRC,

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 09:53:47PM +, Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean by "well enough to do operations on them" ? Probably "You cannot read/modify/list/do anything with the colormaps in the gimp." The only thing you can work on is the colormap of some indexed image. But

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:11:47 +0100, Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If there were a way of adding a prominent notice like "DO NOT USE THIS BUG-TRACKER TO REPORT GIMP BUGS, INSTEAD, GO TO http..."... Have you asked Sourceforge? Kelly

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 07:08:49PM -0500, Kelly Lynn Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there were a way of adding a prominent notice like "DO NOT USE THIS BUG-TRACKER TO REPORT GIMP BUGS, INSTEAD, GO TO http..."... Have you asked Sourceforge? I would rather have them fixed their %$%$ยง cvs

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:31:52AM +, Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the mail I replied to (from Kelly I think) talked about indexed palettes or colourmaps or somesuch, and the word indexed to me means the kind applied to INDEXED images. So I explained how to get at them from

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Nick Lamb
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:38:07AM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: So plug-ins should duplicate the palette file parser, scan all direcrories where gimp looks for palette files to find the palette is looking for, and then restart gimp to take notice of the changed files? "duplicate the palette

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 02:10:33AM +, Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "duplicate the palette file parser" rather overstates the problem, if You picked probably the least important problem :( Then you open a dialog which says 'Sorry about this old chap, but I'm afraid you'll have to

Re: feature requests?

2000-01-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 01:31:52 +, Nick Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Gimp palettes are files :) Yes, but when you have LOTS of custom palettes, having "Reload" as the only way to get a new palette into the GIMP is NOT pleasant. (I have hundreds of custom palettes and have had, at times,

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-29 Thread Michael J. Hammel
Thus spoke Marc Lehmann This is not at all a distribution issue. Linux is a *multi*-user system, so there is not much sense in tailoring the number of installed plug-ins to the needs of, say, the admin. Playing the devils advocate here, you could also say there is not much sense in tailoring

Re: The Gimp: New Generation

2000-01-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Does translation of filter help tips make any sense ? Or would it be like with internal function help tips and they are going to be excluded ? (1.1.6-1.1.10). I'm not really sure. It surely creates lots of work for the translators and I don't know if it is worth it. If we could agree on

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-29 Thread Andrew Kieschnick
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Michael J. Hammel wrote: Thus spoke Marc Lehmann This is not at all a distribution issue. Linux is a *multi*-user system, so there is not much sense in tailoring the number of installed plug-ins to the needs of, say, the admin. Playing the devils advocate here,

Re: Plugins at Sourceforge

2000-01-29 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:14:49PM -0700, "Michael J. Hammel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some menus that need adjusting to reduce the number of entries. Some menus (like the file type in the file dialog) still are unusable with some font/screen combination since most of it will be

Re: The Gimp: New Generation

2000-01-29 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:59:23 +0100, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is handled much better after Mitch overworked most plug-ins UI once again. If you still find places that should be changed, please provide a patch. If Mitch has gone to the effort to normalize existing plug-ins, I