Space key border area ideas

2001-02-04 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
= Space key = The other mails about Space key, zooms and such made me think. What about: - Space: slow cursor, if doable. Lets say 50% normal speed, or user configurable. Working as modifier, it slows while you push it. Or maybe a toggle. Dunno. :] If not doable, dunno what... show menu? Any

Re: Space key border area ideas

2001-02-04 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-02-04 at 1206.22 -0800): This sounds a lot like a temporary layer. I'm thinking, why restrict yourself the the edges of the canvas, why not see how a color looks right where it will be. Of course, this is also a lot like just trying the color and then hitting ^Z or

Re: Idea: Temporary tool assignment

2001-02-02 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-02-02 at 2015.41 -0800): Any chance of this technology becoming more widespread throughout the gimp? Please try all the tools and make a list of the ones that do nothing with Ctrl and / or Shift and / or Alt (before clicking / after clicking, like with Circle selection).

Re: tiled view

2001-01-26 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-01-26 at 0946.51 +0100): Another question, maybe stupid, why doesn't the tile filter tile all layers, like you would expect? Does blur blur all the layers? Can you tile all layers with a script? Or using the filter all that is somewhere in the menus? I think those

Re: tiled view

2001-01-26 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-01-27 at 0022.57 +0100): Does blur blur all the layers? Hm... it should rather be compared to any filter that produces a new image with an 1:1 mapping of layers. The filter has that feature as an option, you can work on the same image. And you can duplicate your

Re: Optional background window ?

2001-01-06 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-01-06 at 1156.22 -0800): I have showed the Gimp to driven photoshop users, and they all complained at one thing, the fact that gimp does not have a "root" window, like photoshop in windows have. I guess they say the same about all X apps then. They also wanted the

Re: something that i would like

2000-11-28 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-11-28 at 0830.20 -0500): i would like to be able to move the image being worked on outside (or at least almost outside) the visable window. Image Menu-Image-Canvas Size. Set the canvas to be larger (Say 800 X 800) Use the positioning widget at the bottom of the

Re: revert/undo/question?

2000-11-10 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-11-10 at 1243.23 +0100): However exactly the same happened to me, which meant loss of half an hour of work. I'll add a warning dialog just as the "chanes were made to %s. really close?" one. Yes, it should ask if undoable "Reverting 'imagename' will lose all

Re: revert/undo/question?

2000-11-09 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-11-09 at 1830.06 +0100): I just found out the hard way that File-Revert is not undoable (I slipped with the pen). Shouldn't that be either undoable OR an action that the user had to acknowledge? Yes, one of those two. I would like undo, see below. I think "revert"

Re: Which version?

2000-11-07 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-11-07 at 0924.52 -0600): Only Gimp 1.1.x exists for Win32, so no "stable" version of Gimp, strictly speaking, exists for Win32. Also, Gimp for Win32 (actually, Gimp compiled for Windows) tends to be less stable than the Unix versions. The deal with "odd-numbered"

Re: Gimp tool icons

2000-11-04 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-11-03 at 2223.03 -0600): | |Please tell me the rationale behind having the drawing icons point downwards. Um, it's *natural*? Had you asked why they point from the left, I would understand your question. But the metaphor of using a pencil, or a paintbrush, or the

Hispalinux talk / demo

2000-10-28 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Hi: Today I got the info that Hispalinux is going to take place soon, 10 - 12 Nov, and tried to know what demos they are going to do. Surprise, Gimp. Surprise two, no names or theme. Does anybody know who or what? I have seen no post here, like is traditional with other expos (I remember USA and

Re: Hispalinux talk / demo

2000-10-28 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-10-28 at 1948.12 +0300): No clue. Is this a "they want someone to do a demo" or "who the heck is going to do a gimp demo there??" A "are they doing it clearly public or just private (but then will complain about no support / publicity)?". It seems private. I wonder if

Re: TGA plug-in patch

2000-09-11 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-09-11 at 1538.29 +0200): wacky things you legally _can_ write to a TGA file, I am offering the opinion that we should generally shield users from the dozens of valid yet unimportant TGA options, and set them for our convenience, as we do with TIFF. This is windows

Re: TGA plug-in patch

2000-09-11 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-09-11 at 1933.24 +0200): is a bug, a new release would be cool anyway). But I would like to see the options in future versions. This is a wonderful case for "he who needs it sends a patch2 ;) He send them first. ;] GSR

Re: Command Line Options

2000-08-21 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2000-08-21 at 1913.32 -0400): * Add "-v" as synonym for "--verbose" * Remove "-v" as synonyn for "--version" * Add "-V" as synonym for "--version" I'd keep -v = --version and add -V = --verbose. This, out of respect for backward compatibility for any version checking

Re: 32-bit images in gimp - Alpha handling wrong?

2000-07-18 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
It depends on what you are doing weather pre multiplied alpha is useful or not. For compositing and image warping pre multiplied alpha is great. for color correction pre-multiplied alpha just gets in the way. Since pre-multiplying the alpha does throw away a few bits of information my

Re: undefined symbol: gtk_accelerator_table_set_mod_mask

2000-07-16 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
When I run GIMP 1.0.2 (rpm) I get: [...] I just downloaded GTK (rpm) a few days ago, it's version 1.2.8 [...] Where do I fail? Gimp 1.0.2 is not for GTK+ 1.2.8, or viceversa. Get a newer Gimp. 1.0.4, IIRC, can run with GTK+ 1.2.x, or even better get a 1.1.x, it will work with 1.2.8, and you get

Re: 32-bit images in gimp

2000-07-15 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Anyone know if gimp will support 32-bit images in the near future? Whad do you mean with "32 bit images"? 32 bit per channel? RGBA 32 bits (8 per channel)? CMYK? The 8 per channel is already supported, CMYK is in limbo due the problems it has (real RGB - CMYK, taking into account monitors,

Re: JPEG previewing

2000-07-03 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Has anybody (except me) tried changing the mode of the JPEG previewing layer to `Difference' instead of `Normal'? Quite interesting... Hadn't we been in a freeze, we should have added it right away, but then again, we ARE in a freeze. Something for 1.3/1.4 or 2.0, I guess :-) I tried by changing

Re: Performance of Gimp vs. photoshop for large images

2000-06-07 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
I was used to adjusting photoshop to prevent it swapping, and tried to do that with GIMP, the above figures were based on my idea that X wanted 30 megs and gimp seemed to want about 10 or so, leaving about 20 left for the image. All wrong, terribly wrong. I set the cache to 30 megs last night

Re: IrfanView

2000-05-30 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
By default photoshop saves a flattened version of the image as well as all of the layers for backward compatibility purposes. I would assume that IrfanView is just displaying the flattened version of the image straight from the file. We may want to add similar functionality to gimp and the xcf

Human eye perception (bit off topic)

2000-05-26 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Hi: I am doing a small script to put data inside image (steganography) using Python and PIL (I hope to port it to PyGIMP as soon as I have time, for example after exams). I would need to know what channels are the ones that eye has problems with, in what order should I use the channels (RGB) so

List rules (Re: Negligencias medicas)

2000-05-13 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Hmmm... Sounds like spam to me. Cos it is. I though that only suscribed guys could post. If anybody can post, it should be fixed now. I think that is most of readers would like. The main problem is that the address seems to be a valid one (not random numbers or other garbage), so maybe he is

Re: Tiff changes?

2000-05-06 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
It shouldn't be hard to stick an SVG path in a PNG extension chunk. If enough apps use it, it will become a standard. And if you change the DTP guys minds, IMHO. From my experiences, it is hard. I have shown PNG, talked about compression, and more things, but some guys still do not get it, they

Thing for Tips and Re: [new stuff for gimprc]

2000-04-15 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Some other, nice (imo), proposed changes to gimprc: snip (undo-levels 15) note that the undo-levels is set much lower than what I have it, but 5 just seems... well.. quite small.) I think 5 is too small and 15 too high. How about 10? It depends what kind of images and computer you work with.

Re: Gimp User Installation Dialog.

2000-03-25 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
But then, Gimp is almost unusable on 640x480 anyway... Screen shooter on steroids. ;] I do not like the blue very much. Yesterday I have changed the color to a slightly less drastic orange. The Wilber with the helmet is cute. The Orange hits the user eyes. I do not like it, blue is too pale,

Re: Gimp User Installation Dialog.

2000-03-25 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Only legacy hardware... and in the worse one I have it is 800 * 600, 16 bits. I doubt anybody will try to run in 8 bit to do graphics work now. A lot of laptops, especially running linux @ 1024x768, will only support 8 bit depth. Dunno if it matters to ya or not. :P Gimping on the plane, ahh.

Re: What should I change in Script-Fu scripts? (Summary)

2000-02-17 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Sorry, busy ending exams, now processing postponed things: A3) Add a new parameter to the dialog box so that the color has to be specified explicitely. Almost everybody supports A3) so I will implement that. Everybody + 1. B3) Add a "flatten image?" option to all scripts, defaults to

Re: Print plug-in

2000-02-01 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
First, I am not a coder: I'd argue that except for gconf and MAYBE gnome-canvas none of this stuff belongs in GNOME at all; these are all very generic facilities that shouldn't depend on any of the IPC, desktop, etc. stuff. Otherwise we wind up with the same kind of confusion and versioning

Re: opinion of end-users

2000-01-17 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Glyph Lefkowitz writes: XInput *obviously* won't work on Win32, since it's **X**input ^_^ (sarcasmhm, I wonder, maybe we could use DirectX-Input or something/sarcasm)) The tablet input was just temporarily broken in the Windows GTk+ version in the currently distributed GIMP for Windows

Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-09 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Thanks to all, but Tigert have GIF images of the original PPM. I dunno if that means quality loss (original where 256 colors only?), and I am looking for the PPM, not derivatives. In the files dir I saw a message saying that they where under gimp stuff, but now are missing, only GIF avaliable.

Gimp splash images

2000-01-08 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Hi: I would like to get all the splash images avaliable. I have some, but not all, from .tar.bz2 files (mainly latest). Could somebody tell me if they have been archived? Where? If something about CVS, please a web or any other way to get inside. Thanks in advance. GSR

Re: New plug-in

2000-01-07 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
A question about patents. Is putting something on the web enough to prevent someone patenting it, or could someone download my plug-in and then patent the algorithm? Your plugin is prior art so patents can not be taken. But web is still a weird place, so you will have to convice lawyers that it

Re: GNOME CVS: gimp mitch

1999-12-17 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
* app/app_procs.c: I thought we should have a real splash (without decoration). Like it??? Not really. We tried this back in the pre-1.0 days, and switched it back because unmanaged windows for splashes are evil (they appear on all desktops, above all windows). Uuumm, if someone wants non

Re: Gimp-Perl and Server Question

1999-11-15 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
After a little testing, using my button creator, I did notice that The Gimp's memory usage did increase after each execution. I found during testing that if I temporarily displayed the new image and then deleted it that the Layers Channels Image list did not retain the image created.

Re: Modifier keys

1999-11-09 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Blend: Shift 15 degrees steps Ctrl horizontal Alt vertical Ctrl+Alt diagonal (45 degress) A question: then shift does all, no? I think everyone is capable of moving the mouse around 15 degrees steps. I am not saying to remove the others,

Re: Re: Tile Cache Size

1999-11-08 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
I rather think _you_ are missing the point (which is disk layout and minimizing seeks, and _not_ a better memory layout. The tile based scheme leads itself naturally to spatial indexing, in fatc it's already half the way to go). About HD: is there a way to do swap on demand to a partition? A

Re: Re: Tile Cache Size

1999-11-08 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
About HD: is there a way to do swap on demand to a partition? A daemon, lib or something? is this gimp-related (?) or do you want something like swapd? or swap priorities? I know what swapd and swap priorities are (I think I do, OS thing and how partitions are used). I am speaking about

Re: Re: Tile Cache Size

1999-11-01 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
This is not necissarily true. The System-Swap routine is optimized for arbitrary data. Gimp organizes its image-data in tiles and may perform better in swapping those tiles, since they are a very special data-structure. Nor false. So the swapping routines could be optimized specially for those

Re: Tile Cache Size

1999-11-01 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
This is totally wrong in the case of Linux (ok, not unix, but even more common). Hehehe, then how will you describe my experiences with other non-unix systems? Do not waste your time trying: pathetic and noisy just to start. With a better layout, gimp swapping should be able to succeed virtual

Re: limited slider range

1999-10-27 Thread Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
Using sliders for these things is wrong. You cannot specify things precisely and they have a limited range. These should be GtkSpinButtons with a *big* adjustment range instead. Though sliders are nice to adjust when things dont have a 'enumerated' nature like "tilt sensitivity" - it is