Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-09-09 Thread Srihari Sriraman
Tito is now faster with fuzzy search! :) Familiar with the file finder on emacs/vim/textmate/sublime-text? You can now type in abstract characters from the menu item to find it. appcan = Apply Canvas gablr = Gaussian Blur shgr = Show grid jgs = Jigsaw drpsh = Drop Shadow ... I'll leave the rest

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-04-16 Thread Srihari Sriraman
Firstly, We've fixed those buffer, malloc bugs in Tito. you have an opportunity to do something good for... ... 1/3 of the GIMP interaction system. is that worth it? Making a significant contribution to 1/3rd of the interaction system seems like a big deal to me. So yes, I think its worth

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-31 Thread peter sikking
Srihari Sriraman wrote: A command system would really boost the speed of interaction. now that would really depend a lot on how you design this. I must admit there is a tiny opportunity to come out faster than mousing the menus for a plugin without a shortcut key (ctrl-...). where is comes to

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-30 Thread Kevin Cozens
On 12-03-27 10:50 AM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: We've developed TITO further. [snip] We're hoping to develop this further and build the command system... It looks promising. It helps to find all features with a given key word but there still seems to be a bit of scrolling up/down the list

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-15 Thread Aleksandar Kovač
On 2012-10-03 4:11 AM, peter sikking wrote: sorry to spoil the party, but to see how think this is a good thing, when it can be so treacherous, is quite dangerous. But Peter, that's how all the experiments, prototypes, working models are! It has to be treacherous and it has to be dangerous. But

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 04:44 +0900, Aleksandar Kovač wrote: How about typing even this expression in Srihari's prototype: e.g. 'selectellipse 304.4*304.4mm'. Results in: a 304.4*304.4mm elliptic selection loaded right on the cursor. Especially useful in inkscape; one might be more likely

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-10 Thread Srihari Sriraman
The correct git repo- https://github.com/ssvz4/gimp-tito On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: Also, do you have a public Git repo or something? We do now -

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-10 Thread Srihari Sriraman
the above requires that GIMP is a tool that gets out of the way ...your tool is the opposite of that... ...you get right in the way. Very true. We din't have this perspective. Using keyboard shortcuts indeed gives the 2 operations per second thats required in production environments.

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-10 Thread Michael Muré
I also think that it does not collide with the product vision. Even a professional user need to learn a tool before using it. Also, I know a lot of people that see GIMP as an enhanced MS Paint, because what GIMP is capable of is not obvious. The menu search allow to answer the question what can I

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-10 Thread Srihari Sriraman
should display the keyboard shortcut next to the name of each item Shall soon be done On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Michael Muré batolet...@gmail.com wrote: I also think that it does not collide with the product vision. Even a professional user need to learn a tool before using it.

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-09 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote: Hey, We now have it up and working. Still looking to implement loads of features... Do pool in suggestions! Reminds me good ol' gnome do :) and other quicksilver derivates. What key combination activates that? Also, do you have a

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-09 Thread Alexia Death
Srihari Sriraman wrote: We now have it up and working. Still looking to implement loads of features... Do pool in suggestions! http://youtu.be/hGAgG_XRhHc?hd=1 Nice one. We had a failed GSoC project(student disappeared) for something similar. Is it a plugin or is it hacked into gimp core? --

Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

2012-03-09 Thread Srihari Sriraman
can you give a statement what this is suppose to achieve. *Maximize productivity* Almost forget that there is a menu-bar. Use the mouse/touchpad lesser. *Intent driven rather than hierarchy driven navigation* Focus on 'what' rather than 'how'. *Discover functionality* For new users *Help