[Gimp-developer] Selections to shapes

2015-03-20 Thread Joseph Bupe
Hi, It would be nice to have controls for tweaking rectangle and ellipse selections into different shapes for designing pixel-based graphics with easy. Currently, the rectangle selections can only be tweaked into a rounded-corners shape. This should be extended further to allow shaping selections

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selections to shapes

2015-03-20 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Try using Select-To Path -- Everything you describe is already possible. Although, maybe, selection-To path could have more usability if it would change to the Path Tool, with the new path as active, so that its nodes are displayed at once. Currently, one has to manually go to the Paths dockable,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selections to shapes

2015-03-20 Thread Joseph Bupe
Hi Joao. I know about the selection to paths, but it's not as rich and interactive as I am proposing. What I had in mind is something like Arakne's Path-Shape-Creator here http://www.arakne.es/en/dessign/gimp-python-script-shape-creator-shapes/ In fact, Ajay Ramanathan's proposed

Re: [Gimp-developer] MWG composite functions gexiv2

2015-03-20 Thread Alan Pater
I have gone ahead with the first patch of the series, adding the xmp.dc.description property to the get_comment function in gexiv2. Comments and testers are very welcome. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746424 On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Alan Pater alan.pa...@gmail.com

Re: [Gimp-developer] ABOUT GIMP SOFTWARE

2015-03-20 Thread Michael Schumacher
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[Gimp-developer] Huge performance improvement idea

2015-03-20 Thread Chandana Bandara
Greetings from Chandana, I have an idea that can make a huge impact on performance increase on GIMP image manipulations. This idea occurred to me when I was working on a large banner which I had to do some experiments (Colour changes, layer movements, Font changes, etc...) The problem was, it

[Gimp-developer] ABOUT GIMP SOFTWARE

2015-03-20 Thread SEDA AYDIN
Dear Authoried, I’m working in Şişecam IT department as technology development specialist. We have to learn some detail before installation approval for Gimp software. If you you are not related person, can you direct it to related person? 1)How the program will be established (CD,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Huge performance improvement idea

2015-03-20 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On 20 March 2015 at 13:43, Chandana Bandara cbsoftw...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings from Chandana, Hi Chandana - welcome to this group. Thank you for your suggestions. In fact the workflow you suggest could be made explicitly possible in the future as we move GIMP to a non-destructive editing