Re: Call for help with documentation

2000-01-19 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Sven, I and Karin can look into the user documentation if you want. Cheers Olof On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Sven Neumann wrote: >Hi, > >the last call for contributions was a great success. The list of plug-ins >that remain to be gettextized has shrunk down to (assuming that the posted >list wa

Re: how to get JPEG libraries

1999-12-15 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello The message means that Gimp's jpeg plug-in is complied with a older version of the jpeg library (6.1 i think). The easiest solution is that you download the src package of Gimp 1.0.2 and extract the jpeg src file. I think it's only one c file and you should be able to recompile it with gim

Re: compiling a plug in

1999-12-11 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Please use gimptool to build the plugin additional information (a whole chapter) about compiling can also be found in the Gimp Users Manual manual.gimp.org. To build a plugin with gimptool simply do gimptool --build plug-in.c . NOTE that this only work with one c source file. Cheers Olo

Re: Review and better --> Clean up and Re: Help System (fwd)

1999-11-20 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Steinar, On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > >My idea is that Gimp 1.2 is delivered with all "scripts" and "filters" > >some of them aren't installed by default (most notably "scripts" but also > >some C plugins). They are instead installed in > >..share/gimp/uninstalled_fil

Re: Modifier keys (second call for votes)

1999-11-20 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Sven This is Karins vote. She I think circle restricts is the best. It gives you a better control of what you are doing and it simply feels better. She would also love if you could make it snap to guide as I suggested in my mail yesterday. Cheers Olof On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Sven Neuman

Re: Review and better --> Clean up and Re: Help System (fwd)

1999-11-20 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Marc (and Gimpers) On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:04:51PM +0100, Olof S Kylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > * Make a script pkg with Script-Fu, Perl-Fu and Py-Fu scripts > > A small detail is unclear to me ;) Who

Re: Clean up and Re: Help System

1999-11-14 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Sven Nope go a head > BTW: would someone object against getting rid of the possibility to > disable cursor changes?? This would close a bug w/o too much hassle > and I don't see why someone would want to disable cursor updating > anyway... > > >

Re: Review and better .......

1999-11-12 Thread Olof S Kylander
e for each image he works with. She then has to arrange his desk twice for each image. Further more she has to bring up the dialog for each image that he works with. Cheers Olof On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Andy Thomas wrote: > Olof S Kylander:- Thanks for your summary of the problems in Gimp

Review and better --> Clean up and Re: Help System (fwd)

1999-11-12 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Folks I got some feedback about the "Clean up" nearly all of them well written and with good points. I there for rewrote the main "todo" list and post it again for confirmation/evaluation. Here is my list of minor things to clean up and make better (Without breaking the freeze). First th

Re: Modifier keys

1999-11-10 Thread Olof S Kylander
Well I sent a list of them to Sven Cheers Olof -- Olof Kylander Frozenriver Digital Design http://www.frozenriver.nu Consultant at Sigma nBiT Technical writer and coauthor of GUM (the Gimp User Manual) On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Uwe Koloska wrote: > Austin wrote on Tuesday, 09 Nov 1999: > >

Re: Help System

1999-11-10 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote: > >> > The GIMP should really use the GNOME help browser instead of > >> > reinventing the wheel. > >> Will it be possible to get just the wheel without the rest of the car? > >Maybe I'm not the right person to say this, but

Clean up and Re: Help System

1999-11-10 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Folks Yes, as Sven points out we can include GtkXmHtml and we can make a wiser configure script. The other part is that I just don't want to spend my free time to make a help system that is not a part of std Gimp. I mean it's totally idiotic to say "well if you want help ..." . When peopl

Re: More Inconsistency in eraser, blur and dodge tools

1999-11-01 Thread Olof S Kylander
ple have worked > hard (I'm not just speaking for myself) based on the presumption of a > freeze. I think that should be respected. I know that a lot of people has worked hard, me my self included. The discussion is not about disrespect. Trust me I respect you and other hard working people 100%, but I also respect a user demanding a good UI to work within. Best Wishes Olof S Kylander

Re: More Inconsistency in eraser, blur and dodge tools

1999-11-01 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Michael, On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Michael J. Hammel wrote: > > I don't mind waiting around extra three months to make Gimp be the top of > > the line program when it comes to user friendly UI. I mean if we rush it > > really we can maybe release Gimp 1.2 in Jan 2000. So how much > > will it hurt

Re: More Inconsistency in eraser, blur and dodge tools

1999-11-01 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello All :-) On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Michael Natterer wrote: > I'm not entirely happy with this, too. However there are places where > both eg a popup _and_ dnd are logical to bind to mouse1. If I find > a way to intuitively distinguish the default mouse1 action (poping > up the preview) and dnd, I'

Re: More Inconsistency in eraser, blur and dodge tools

1999-11-01 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello (again) On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 12:12:28PM +0100, Olof S Kylander wrote: > > > Well see in your own mail below where you say use PS mod keys/short cuts. > > When you move a PS selection you move the selection it self. You ar

Re: More Inconsistency in eraser, blur and dodge tools

1999-11-01 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello all On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Austin Donnelly wrote: > On Monday, 1 Nov 1999, Michael Natterer wrote: > > > +mouse2 --> copy & paste the selection mask or > > copy & paste the selection itself (if it's floated) > > +mouse2 --> cut & paste the selection ifself > >

Re: More Inconsistency in eraser, blur and dodge tools

1999-11-01 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello all Gimpers ;-) On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Michael Natterer wrote: > Hi all, > > all the stuff below sounds quite good (the current modifier usage is > really confusing, even for experienced users). > > When redefining it (making it consistent), we shouldn't forget to > care for dnd. Hacking d

Re: Even more trouble(inconsistency) in transform tools

1999-10-31 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > What if the manipulation of the selection would not float the thing inside > the selection without the user explicitly telling so? In Photoshop there is > a "Nudge Selection" feature, where you make a selection, and use the cursors > to quickl

Re: More Inconsistency in eraser, blur and dodge tools

1999-10-31 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello > Yes, we have to overwork the modifier keys! HeHe ;-), it is more or less impossible to know what all of them do. I'd propose to use only a > single modifier for constraining the movement into a special direction. > The gradient/blend tool already offers this. Strg/Ctrl are bound to

Even more trouble(inconsistency) in transform tools

1999-10-31 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Selections are the most important tool in image manipulations. The key in Gimp is to select and so something with the selection. THATS why it's very important to be able to transform selections. Rotate, shear, (i.e use the transform tool) on the selection it self. To day you must have a n

More Inconsistency in eraser, blur and dodge tools

1999-10-31 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Again There are some major inconsistency or more precisely hard to use functions in the eraser, the sharpen/blur and dodge/burn tools. Pressing Ctrl will change the tool behavior from eraser --> anti-eraser, blur --> sharpen and dodge --> burn. Pressing Ctrl will in combination with S

UI consistency in Gimp

1999-10-30 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Gimpers Some items that I think need a shape up before 1.2. I know code it or move away, but I thought you might want to know anyway. The info window is very nice but it is not explored to it's fully functionality. First of all it's not auto switched which IMHO is mandatory. The measure

Re: Tablet and multiple active Areas / Pointer Window Mode

1999-10-30 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hi Simon In the new driver which I asume that you use the AlwaysCore is always on :-). This is why you have trouble. Cheers Olof -- Olof Kylander Frozenriver Digital Design http://www.frozenriver.nu Consultant at Sigma nBiT Technical writer and coauthor of GUM (the Gimp User Manual)

Re: Icons in L&C dialog (and elsewhere)

1999-10-26 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Quite right "stop" is not a good solution. There are as Sven says several tasks todo after a "freeze". Cheers Olof PS: Yes it's quite annoying for a writer when the UI or functionality changes. But thats life and I assume that we all in the same situation. On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Sven Ne

Re: Icons in L&C dialog (and elsewhere)

1999-10-25 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Well "feature" freeze is a wide term. Currently only Gimp (app and lib) is in feature freeze (If I haven't missed a mail). Functions such as IS, Bezier, Airbrush, brush scaling, context etc.. is not finished. For me a feature freeze is when you stop add new functionality. It's not when y

Re: Icons in L&C dialog (and elsewhere)

1999-10-23 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Well I know that all of us has a full load of work. I think Svens work is nice!! (I.e lets go for it). As long as he also makes the anchor icon which in it's present design sucks (no harm towards you Tigert but it is clearly not one of your best icons ;-). Cheeers Olof -- Olof Kylander

Re: C++ plug-in?

1999-10-21 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello I the new fp is done in C++ Please check out http://registry.gimp.org/detailview.phtml?plugin=Filter+Pack Cheers Olof -- Olof Kylander Frozenriver Digital Design http://www.frozenriver.nu Consultant at Sigma nBiT Technical writer and coauthor of GUM (the Gimp User Manual) On

Help pages please read

1999-10-04 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Folks The help system is now added to the current cvs version of Gimp. This means that if you press F1 on every thing besides -Fu you will get a stub help page to read. The important thing now is that if you add or change the behavior of a dialog or tool in such way that the help page

Re: Modifier keys (second call for votes)

1999-01-17 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Sven This is my vote (Karins tomorrow). IMHO I think circle restricts is the best. It gives you a better control of what you are doing and it simply feels better. My suggestion is however (if it's possible) to be able to snap to guides in line preview drawing. I mean then you will have th

Re: Review and better --> Clean up and Re: Help System (fwd)

1999-01-17 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Marc (and Gimpers) On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:04:51PM +0100, Olof S Kylander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > * Make a script pkg with Script-Fu, Perl-Fu and Py-Fu scripts > > A small detail is unclear to me ;) Who

Review and better --> Clean up and Re: Help System (fwd)

1999-01-16 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Folks I got some feedback about the "Review and better" nearly all of them well written and with good points. I there for rewrote the main "todo" list and post it again for confirmation/evaluation. Here is my list of minor things to clean up and make better (Without breaking the freeze).

Re: Menu reorganization

1999-01-16 Thread Olof S Kylander
Okay, but let me first finish the last proposal, which will collect all the thoughts of the list. Cheers Olof > > One more thought: > > It may be nice to see tonight's proposal "in action", so I'm thinking about > implementing it and checking it in tomorrow. It's so easy to change it > if some

Re: the Gimp 1.2... when could be ready?

1999-01-16 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Folks On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Sven Neumann wrote: > PS: People, if you want to get 1.2 out of the door, why doesn't someone > address the menu reorganization? Olof has made a nice proposal, it has > been discussed in this place. So who is going to implement the changes? > You can of course w

Re: Menu reorganization

1999-01-16 Thread Olof S Kylander
Hello Well, the menu proposal is not finished a last review will arrive this night ;-) (to much to do lately). Well I think we shouldn't do it do it "free" but rather wait on the final reaction of the proposal. Cheers Olof -- Olof Kylander Frozenriver Digital Design http://www.frozenriver