Re: [Gimp-developer] Helping with the GEGL transition

2012-11-16 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote: Hi, I just wanted to know if there was some help needed for the GEGL transition. We absolutely need help there :) From what I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: We have discussed it in the future and decided against it. Sorry, as a newbie to time traveling I easily get confused. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Jon Nordby
On 16 November 2012 11:54, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: I'm not here to reignite the discussion about the new save/export behaviour, don't worry. :-) and So, given the inconcialiability of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Simon Budig
Alberto Mardegan (ma...@users.sourceforge.net) wrote: On 11/16/2012 12:54 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: I'm not here to reignite the discussion about the new save/export behaviour, don't worry. :-) and So, given the

[Gimp-developer] Feedback from an ordinary user

2012-11-16 Thread Ali Carikcioglu
Hello everyone, First of all, I want to thank all developers for making this great program GIMP. And I have some improvement suggestions about GIMP. (you don't have to respond them, and I am not searching support either) * * 1)* a more simple and clear GIMP website:* I think GIMP download

Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-16 Thread yahvuu
Am 16.11.2012 00:24, schrieb Liam R E Quin: On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 21:30 +0100, yahvuu wrote: how much support for 'web type' blending modes does GIMP really need? This Web thing will never take off, it's just a momentary... er... wait :) Or: The Internet? Is that thing still around? :)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-16 Thread yahvuu
Am 15.11.2012 23:28, schrieb gespert...@gmail.com: But after reading further and, if I got it right, I found that there is a property in the specs that allows to choose the space for blending, and the newer blending and filter specs default to linear. The old ones, however, default to sRGB

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 01:54:10PM +0200, Alberto Mardegan wrote: No, they aren't: I'm not proposing to remove or change the current behaviour. I'm proposing to add a configuration option (I don't care how hard it is to find) to re-enable the old behaviour. I also find the change frustrating

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Simon Budig
Matthew Miller (mat...@mattdm.org) wrote: I also find the change frustrating for my workflow. I don't mind learning the export-instead-of-save command, but it's bad UI to always confirm on exit even after a file is saved -- and, for many actual real world user workflows, exported *is* saved

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 02:11:45PM +0100, Simon Budig wrote: I also find the change frustrating for my workflow. I don't mind learning the export-instead-of-save command, but it's bad UI to always confirm on exit even after a file is saved -- and, for many actual real world user workflows,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Right, and that's fine. Put the option in safe by default. But right now, you're punishing everyone else. Forcing that workflow choice on everyone doesn't lead to a good user experience. Forcing would imply malice. I find it... almost

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: images in XCF files. Whether this category is big or small, I don't know for sure, but it's pretty reasonable to think that it's large enough to deserve a configuration option. Where would you stop with configuration options, when

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:48:45PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Right, and that's fine. Put the option in safe by default. But right now, you're punishing everyone else. Forcing that workflow choice on everyone doesn't lead to a good user experience. Forcing would imply malice. No,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:53:22PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: images in XCF files. Whether this category is big or small, I don't know for sure, but it's pretty reasonable to think that it's large enough to deserve a configuration option. Where would you stop with configuration

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: With some sensible discretion. Here, it's not just a paint it pink please! no, it must be purple! discussion. There's two valid use cases -- people who work in very different ways. It'd be easy to support both. Would it? adding a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:09:00PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: With some sensible discretion. Here, it's not just a paint it pink please! no, it must be purple! discussion. There's two valid use cases -- people who work in very different ways. It'd be easy to support both. Would it?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread jEsuSdA 8)
Maybe it could be solved with a nice system I think could be fine: Adding a simple configuration option: Do not ask me about saving when close files that has not been saved XCF format In spanish: No preguntarme si deseo guardar al cerrar imágenes que no he guardado antes en formato XCF.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexia Death
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: Simon asked for a usability study. This is no formal study, but there's plenty of direct feedback from actual users. And there is also plenty of people that have showed up with saved files they want to change but cant,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:13:04PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: 1. Convert from RAW in other software. Save my originals there. 2. Select a dozen or so image for touchup work. Make jpg copies. (Occasionally, TIFF.) 3. Open all of those copies in gimp, make my adjustments

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexia Death
Oh, let me throw up this idea for you - you do not need a fork, just a script to override the default close... Very easy to install, maintain and distribute. No fork needed. ___ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@gnome.org

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:16:01PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Uh. Yes. And this statement is based on what experience exactly? :) I've been involved in free software and maintaining software projects for many years, so I know that adding code to handle options adds maintenance. But,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 04:20:13PM +0200, Alexia Death wrote: Oh, let me throw up this idea for you - you do not need a fork, just a script to override the default close... Very easy to install, maintain and distribute. No fork needed. Okay, awesome. I had no idea that was possible. Can you

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 11/16/2012 04:20 PM, Alexia Death wrote: Oh, let me throw up this idea for you - you do not need a fork, just a script to override the default close... Very easy to install, maintain and distribute. No fork needed. But is the old behaviour something that can be achieved by a script? I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com Beyond that it's in the hands of community if they want the old scenario back and maintain some sort of a fork. The performance of https://github.com/mskala/noxcf-gimp is somewhat underwhelming, so far. IMO we should revert back to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:30:46PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: Beyond that it's in the hands of community if they want the old scenario back and maintain some sort of a fork. The performance of https://github.com/mskala/noxcf-gimp is somewhat underwhelming, so far. It doesn't appear to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:13:04 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: changes to the way things have been done before. But it'd also be nice if broader workflows could be taken into account. Here's mine: 1. Convert from RAW in other software.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:37:38PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Exporting/Overwriting + configurable shortcuts. http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/gimp-2.8-understanding-ui-changes Right, that I'm familiar with. And there is Akkana's script:

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexia Death
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: Change is good. But listen to feedback as you make it. When there's a clear use case, see if you can cover it without serious detriment to the rest. I just have to make this point... All feedback recived in this manner is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:40:54PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: That explains why config options have a cost, not why they are bad. I think that's well understood. All features have costs. But you want _us_ to pay that cost :) I guess. That's why I'm asking nicely. :) Some options

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 04:43:32PM +0200, Alexia Death wrote: Change is good. But listen to feedback as you make it. When there's a clear use case, see if you can cover it without serious detriment to the rest. I just have to make this point... All feedback recived in this manner is biased.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Some options have high cost and only benefit an obscure case. In *this* case, the cost is relatively small (one option which is a refinement of an option that's always been there) and the *reward for the project* is high. The problem here

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Sure. You can't use it as a survey. But you can use it to judge engagement. Users who care enough to come and complain are not just unhappy haters -- they're users who care a lot. In the case of creating a bugzilla account or signing up

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Dima Ursu
On 11/16/2012 04:11 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:09:00PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: With some sensible discretion. Here, it's not just a paint it pink please! no, it must be purple! discussion. There's two valid use cases -- people who work in very different

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 06:50:33PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: The problem here is that you are thinking in terms of one little switch can't do no harm. You are not considering all the planned work to make GIMP a truly non-destructive editor, all the corner cases like native CMYK

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alberto Mardegan
On 11/16/2012 04:40 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: That explains why config options have a cost, not why they are bad. I think that's well understood. All features have costs. But you want _us_ to pay that cost :) No, I offered to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 05:07:41PM +0200, Alexia Death wrote: This is analogous to saying don't use emacs just to do a quick edit; use vi for that. Different tools have different interfaces, and I don't want to learn two different interfaces to edit images just because I want to quick and

[Gimp-developer] Re : Feedback from an ordinary user

2012-11-16 Thread Vincent Cadet
--- En date de : Ven 16.11.12, Ali Carikcioglu ali.ca...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello everyone, First of all, I want to thank all developers for making this great program GIMP. And I have some improvement suggestions about GIMP. ... 6) Combine Save As and Export buttons:  Click Save As and, save

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexia Death
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Karl Günter Wünsch k...@mineralien-verkauf.de wrote: If I am editing an image to my liking I usually need several sizes and sometimes even aspect crops. Since sharpening is the last step in almost all of my workflows I end up creating a master (saved as XCF)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: Oh hey! Some good old-fashioned overreacting right here :) No, just my honest opinion on what has happened. Yes, you are honestly overreacting. Alexia is one of GIMP developers. You've been using results of her work since 2.6 that

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re : Feedback from an ordinary user

2012-11-16 Thread Vincent Cadet
Alexia, I'm really sorry. I counted about 50 new messages about that very topic after I posted my message to the list. I'm sorry for the noise, really. What I notice however is that very matter brings much debate. So I looks to me that the chapter is far from closed and far from bringing

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: XCF is always the internal state of the document. Images get imported into an internal XCF, not opened and manipulated directly. Yes, I know. But the *option* isn't fundamental. When you're driving a car, it's not a fundamental

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:20:47 +0200, Alexia Death wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: To run with this analogy: the problem is when you *frequently* need something that is more than nano provides. In the specific case of Gimp, I don't think there's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 10:14 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: In the specific case of Gimp, I don't think there's anything else that offers layers, curves, and a healing brush. If you are making use of layers, you're into GIMP territory, and into the territory where saving as JPEG and losing the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:33:45 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: XCF is always the internal state of the document. Images get imported into an internal XCF, not opened and manipulated directly. Yes, I know. But the *option* isn't

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feedback from an ordinary user

2012-11-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 14:05 +0200, Ali Carikcioglu wrote: Hello everyone, First of all, I want to thank all developers for making this great program GIMP. And I have some improvement suggestions about GIMP. (you don't have to respond them, and I am not searching support either) * *

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: Just please don't tell people that their needs are wrong only because you don't feel the same needs. We never said that. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 12:04 -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:40:41 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: If you are making use of layers, you're into GIMP territory, and into the territory where saving as JPEG and losing the layers can be a problem. Emphasis on *can be*. But

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Egor Voznessenski
Hi! This huge discussion here is about a single dialog that warns you that you might lose work, which is dismissed easily. Probably nothing in the world is more annoying than stupid pop-ups are you sure? without even an option to turn them off. I believe that: - in the case user loaded flat

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Monty Montgomery
So unless you come up with a real usability study within our target user group that shows that they can't handle this change we won't change this. Or, you can do what I've done-- build Gimp 2.6 and not take upgrades. Monty ___ gimp-developer-list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 03:55:01PM -0300, gespert...@gmail.com wrote: - adding a default shortcut for Overwrite (I use CTRL+SHIFT+E for that) - Mark the save flag after the overwrite, so GIMP doesn't ask for saving. Yeah, I guess that latter would handle pretty much all I want. I'm already

Re: [Gimp-developer] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-16 Thread Elle Stone
Hi all, A couple different lines of discussion are in this thread, the correct way to implement Overlay in regular sRGB, the effect of linear gamma blending with respect to changing w3 standards, how to deal with legacy blend modes after the switch to linear light image editing. An implicit

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:33 +0400 From: alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com To: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour This has been discussed a dozen of times. One of these days I'll really finish the new FAQ so that we

Re: [Gimp-developer] Stop this thread! (was: Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour)

2012-11-16 Thread Egor Voznessenski
Hi! Now, that's exactly a Communist way. Птн 16 Ноя 2012 20:28:45 от Michael Natterer mi...@gimp.org: You can all stop wasting your time arguing. We did this change for a reason, and we will not revert it nor will we make the behavior configurable. I have not read any of the mails on

Re: [Gimp-developer] Stop this thread! (was: Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour)

2012-11-16 Thread Pete Bergstrom
It's a pragmatic response. The development team size (I'm not among them) is such that they need to do their own thing. They've done a lot of work to reach this decision and think that as their vision is realized it will become recognized as clearly the correct move. As I see it, you've all got

Re: [Gimp-developer] Stop this thread! (was: Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour)

2012-11-16 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
Egor, if you spend a little time reading gimp mailing archives, you will see that topic was discussed to death so many times with the same treads of dozens mails, that starting it again can be considered impolite towards developers. The time they spend answering the same question for

Re: [Gimp-developer] Stop this thread! (was: Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour)

2012-11-16 Thread Paka
* Egor Voznessenski vozn...@mail.ru [11-16-12 14:55]: Hi! Now, that's exactly a Communist way. Птн 16 Ноя 2012 20:28:45 от Michael Natterer mi...@gimp.org: You can all stop wasting your time arguing. ... Well Egor, you didn't even that that correct. It is not communistic, its

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Monty Montgomery xiphm...@gmail.com wrote: So unless you come up with a real usability study within our target user group that shows that they can't handle this change we won't change this. Or, you can do what I've done-- build Gimp 2.6 and not take upgrades.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Michael Natterer
On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 19:54 -0300, gespert...@gmail.com wrote: A couple of hours ago, when discussing this issue with Jesusda we both noticed (both noticed it for the very first time) the option in the preferences that disables the warning for unsaved XCF files. That option has been removed

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour

2012-11-16 Thread Robert Krawitz
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:36:30 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 12:04 -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote: On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:40:41 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: If you are making use of layers, you're into GIMP territory, and into the territory where saving as JPEG and losing the