Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 15:42 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > Because fake italics and bold faces are an abomination :) That's true for Western typography with the Latin alphabet, in general, although even there it does have uses, e.g. for display faces used in light colours on a dark backgroun

[Gimp-developer] text-tool 'Font' panel & bold/italic simulation for CJK

2013-10-04 Thread Thomas W
Just trying out the Text Tool UI, re: font simulation. There's a bit of a usability problem in 2.8.4 -- if you type text, remove it, change the font-size & click in back in the box to type something else -- your size setting is always rejected & reverted to the default (18px). Sigetch is exactly

Re: [Gimp-developer] HELP with SYMBOLIC icon theme for Gimp.

2013-10-04 Thread Simon Budig
jEsuSdA 8) (lis...@jesusda.com) wrote: > >>B - Same of A. I think solving A maybe can solve this bug. > > > >Yeah. > > But solving A does not solve B and the old coloured icon still > appears. ¿?¿?¿? :( ok, weird. > I have include the gtk-print to force CMYK color chooser to load the > symbolic

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 12:57:00AM +1300, Jehan Pagès wrote: [...] > I would personally not be against a feature request along this line. > Giving the right feedback to users, and making them informed and > active rather than passive in their choices, is totally my view of > things. > If you write

Re: [Gimp-developer] layer multi-select

2013-10-04 Thread Michael Natterer
On 10/04/2013 09:01 PM, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote: El 04/10/13 14:57, Matthew Smith escribió: Hello I am going to make an effort to get a layer multi-select going. In this email I will outline what I hope to achieve and I am asking what would be the most effective way to go about submitti

Re: [Gimp-developer] layer multi-select

2013-10-04 Thread Guillermo Espertino (Gez)
El 04/10/13 14:57, Matthew Smith escribió: Hello I am going to make an effort to get a layer multi-select going. In this email I will outline what I hope to achieve and I am asking what would be the most effective way to go about submitting a patch that could get accepted. IANAD ;) but wouldn'

[Gimp-developer] layer multi-select

2013-10-04 Thread Matthew Smith
Hello I am going to make an effort to get a layer multi-select going. In this email I will outline what I hope to achieve and I am asking what would be the most effective way to go about submitting a patch that could get accepted. The goal is to be able to select multiple layers, and perform

Re: [Gimp-developer] HELP with SYMBOLIC icon theme for Gimp.

2013-10-04 Thread jEsuSdA 8)
El 04/10/13 14:37, Simon Budig escribió: jEsuSdA 8) (lis...@jesusda.com) wrote: A - I have the symbolic icon, but I can find the widget name to load the icon. Gimp allways loads this colorful icon and I can not change it. ¿What name has it? This is imported from the default gtk stock icons: "g

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread sigetch
You should know the situation for the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts. There are more than 15,000 characters to be designed, so that little font set has bold and italics face. In those countries, the bug reported above is very serious and critical. We have to have options to use simulated bo

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Guillermo Espertino (Gez)
El 04/10/13 05:12, Jehan Pagès escribió: It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in 2.8.6 for Windows. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708110 In my oppinion, that's not a bug, it's an improvement.:-) Bold and Italics variants should be designed specifica

Re: [Gimp-developer] HELP with SYMBOLIC icon theme for Gimp.

2013-10-04 Thread Simon Budig
jEsuSdA 8) (lis...@jesusda.com) wrote: > A - I have the symbolic icon, but I can find the widget name to load > the icon. Gimp allways loads this colorful icon and I can not change > it. ¿What name has it? This is imported from the default gtk stock icons: "gtk-select-color" > B - Same of A. I th

Re: [Gimp-developer] HELP with SYMBOLIC icon theme for Gimp.

2013-10-04 Thread jEsuSdA 8)
El 04/10/13 13:59, Simon Budig escribió: The bug D is almost done: eye icon has changed, bug when clicked, >there are no "closed eye" showd, so, I need help to solve this. I am not sure if I understand the bug: the default theme does not contain a "closed eye" icon. Do you see the default eye w

Re: [Gimp-developer] HELP with SYMBOLIC icon theme for Gimp.

2013-10-04 Thread Simon Budig
jEsuSdA 8) (lis...@jesusda.com) wrote: > Working on gtkrc I have solved F bug and improve the icons visualization. Thanks for your efforts, that indeed looks really great. I'm all for including it in the main gimp source. > The bug D is almost done: eye icon has changed, bug when clicked, > there

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote: > It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in 2.8.6 for Windows. >>> >>> And I suggest we keep it that way. Committing crime against typograph

Re: [Gimp-developer] HELP with SYMBOLIC icon theme for Gimp.

2013-10-04 Thread jEsuSdA 8)
Here you can find the bugs : http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=60270 A - I have the symbolic icon, but I can find the widget name to load the icon. Gimp allways loads this colorful icon and I can not change it. ¿What name has it? There are no reference in libgimpwidgets documentation abo

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote: >>> It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in >>> 2.8.6 for Windows. >> >> And I suggest we keep it that way. Committing crime against typography >> isn't going to make us popular among professionals. > > Well I person

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote: > >> It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in >> 2.8.6 for Windows. > > And I suggest we keep it that way. Committing crime against typography > isn

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote: > It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in > 2.8.6 for Windows. And I suggest we keep it that way. Committing crime against typography isn't going to make us popular among professionals. Alexandre _

[Gimp-developer] HELP with SYMBOLIC icon theme for Gimp.

2013-10-04 Thread jEsuSdA 8)
Hi! Few days ago, I saw the Alexandre Prokoudine post on Google+ about Gimp and Symbolic icon theme: https://plus.google.com/104550365344856778857/posts/LP1pWr7YEgA He said he downloaded the gimp source code and overwrite the main icons, then he compiled. This procedure is not very easy to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Michael Natterer wrote: > On 10/04/2013 10:12 AM, Jehan Pagčs wrote: >> Also we have a bunch of fixes in gimp-2-8 branch anyway, and it is >> soon 4 months since 2.8.6. Maybe it is a good time to make a minor >> release? I feel like there is no much reason to

Re: [Gimp-developer] My plugin doesn't start anymore after upgrading mingw/gcc suite

2013-10-04 Thread Partha Bagchi
Allessandro, I am doubtful this has anything to do with 4.8.1 since I have been using 4.8.1 in building Gimp and recently including BIMP and have not seen any issues. Please feel free to contact me offlist to resolve this, if you wish. Thanks, Partha On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Alessandro

Re: [Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Michael Natterer
On 10/04/2013 10:12 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote: Hi, About the broken font support, which was simply in the end fontconfig's configuration which kept some absolute path from the Linux where it was cross-compiled from, I think it is a pretty broken stuff. It was the reason of why italic/bold could not

[Gimp-developer] My plugin doesn't start anymore after upgrading mingw/gcc suite

2013-10-04 Thread Alessandro Francesconi
Hello everyone, This morning, on my Windows platform, I’ve decided to run a “mingw-get.exe upgrade” command in order to give a fresh update to my compiling tools. The process finished fine and the GCC version changed from 4.7.2 to 4.8.1... but I shouldn't have done it! I went to my plugin s

[Gimp-developer] Next minor release?

2013-10-04 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, About the broken font support, which was simply in the end fontconfig's configuration which kept some absolute path from the Linux where it was cross-compiled from, I think it is a pretty broken stuff. It was the reason of why italic/bold could not be simulated anymore in 2.8.6 for Windows. h