Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.8 Feature Request (2)

2012-01-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 07:14 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: [...] I am a user that always wants to export in .jpg. I use a lot of different source material, so the images I start out with can be of different formats. If I start with a .tiff, I still want GIMP to default to .jpg when I export

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.8 Feature Request (2)

2012-01-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 07:14 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: [...] I am a user that always wants to export in .jpg. I use a lot of different source material, so the images I start out with can be of different formats. If I start with a .tiff, I still want GIMP to default to .jpg when I export

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.8 Feature Request (2)

2012-01-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 11:55 +0100, g...@catking.net wrote: On 01/05/12 10:30, Alexia Death wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Liam R E Quinl...@holoweb.net wrote: I suggest a preference, default export format: [same as imported file] [same as last export] [tiff]

Re: [Gimp-developer] Non-incremental painting

2012-01-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 01:08 +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote: Definitely. He can begin by apologizing for how [...] The way forward is always to forgive, as long as the miscreant clearly makes a conscious effort to improve, and of course does not wear shoes or white socks :-) It is of no avail to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Retouch 'push' tool?

2012-03-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:46 +, Jeremy Morton wrote: Does GIMP have an equivalent to Paint Shop Pro's retouch 'push' tool? It's similar to but not the same as the smudge tool. Rather than assuming people are familiar with a particular proprietary piece of software, it works best to say what

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] that typing business...

2012-04-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 08:27 +0300, Alexia Death wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: Wait, you look at the keyboard when you use it...? Hell yes. It's not blind typing. In GIMP you very seldom get away with one key. It's all two-finger or 3 finger

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Demo] Porting MyPaint brush engines to the GIMP.

2012-05-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 12:43 +0300, Dima Ursu wrote: by the way...is gimp going to borrow some memory management from mypaint? I worked with a .png of 15 000 px X 8000 px, on my computer with 2 gb ram, and it works smoothly in mypaint, but gimp eats all my ram, and all the swap space.

Re: [Gimp-developer] wilber in the toolbar

2012-05-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 15:41 +0200, peter sikking wrote: SorinN wrote: drop images text message would me more efficient and explicit or probably an icon representing the drag and drop action... now that would be really annoying, looking at that 40 hours a week, every week of the year,

Re: [Gimp-developer] wilber in the toolbar

2012-05-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 19:06 +0200, peter sikking wrote: [...] A gtk+ drop target might be a better approach. is that a standard widget? I have trouble googling it. No, I am sorry, I was overly laconic. You are standing in my sunlight. I was trying to suggest that gtk+ could add a new

Re: [Gimp-developer] wilber in the toolbar

2012-05-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 18:37 +0200, gg wrote: [to SorinN] As the in-house GUI expert , I'm rather surprised you don't see that as the priority too. But if you have attachment there's probably no harm in you liking it. Useability does not operate in a vacuum - branding is part of the user

Re: [Gimp-developer] Question about using GIMP in a domain name

2012-05-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 18:13 -0400, robert_casav...@doh.state.fl.us wrote: Is it ok to use the word gimp in the actual domain name or is this against policy to use a company/product name? Lots of others do - but please don't make it something like official-gimp-help.com that might confuse

Re: [Gimp-developer] and if I don't have middle click ?

2012-05-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 00:10 +0300, Cristian Secară wrote: I wanted to (ex)change a color of a simple png image, so I tried to use Colors - Map - Color Exchange... tool. Most Linux setups emulate the middle button if you press the left and right buttons at the same time, if that helps. Liam --

Re: [Gimp-developer] JPEG lossless operations?

2012-05-30 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 01:04 +0200, Ofnuts wrote: The best (and fastest) way to rotate a JPEG is to change its orientation flag... Not all programs honour the orientation flag. Windows Explorer's thumbnails used to be an example, don't know if that's still true in Windows 7. Liam --

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring back normal handling of other file formats

2012-06-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 22:10 +0300, Cristian Secară wrote: [...] There is, however, a big annoyance in the following scenario: - open GIMP - drop a (say) .png image - change something there - export the modified image to other (say) .png - close GIMP - the program asks Do you want to save

Re: [Gimp-developer] canvas and layer

2012-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 21:17 +0300, Ursu Dumitru wrote: Now what I was wondering was: is there a real need for having both these things: canvas and layer? Aren't they pretty much the same thing? The canvas is a sort of layer that contains other layers, such that the inner layers are clipped to

Re: [Gimp-developer] present xcf as what it is, a gimp project file format

2012-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 21:59 +0200, yahvuu wrote: A pop-up is certainly appropriate for preventing _accidental_ data loss via Close. But for Force Close, i see no justification to interrupt the train of thought by raising a pop-up. Years ago I used a mailer called elm, in which x was the

Re: [Gimp-developer] present xcf as what it is, a gimp project file format

2012-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 01:46 +0200, Marco Ciampa wrote: [...] am I wrong if I say that, with the newer versions of GIMP, due to the final integration with GEGL, saving png to png or jpg to jpg has even less sense, since GIMP inerently import into an internal rappresentation that is no more

Re: [Gimp-developer] Ditch the Save a Copy command (really)

2012-06-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 14:46 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: Seriously -- I propose that the Save a Copy... command should be removed and its functionality merged into the Export As... command. save a copy saves as xcf without changing the image filename Save a copy could be merged into save

Re: [Gimp-developer] Merge Save a Copy with Export As [was: Ditch the Save a Copy command (really)]

2012-06-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 10:47 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: [Liam wrote] save a copy saves as xcf without changing the image filename It's not doing the same thing as export a lossy copy you might or might not be able to re-open Is this difference enough of a difference to even be a

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

2012-07-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 10:27 -0500, Aaron Paden wrote: Even krita is a little better, which I thought was surprising. It's able to at least load my largest image (8960x9088, 7 MB) after awhile without halting and crippling my DE, Try increasing the tile size in your gimp preferences e.g. to

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 prohibitively slow

2012-07-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 00:35 -0500, Aaron Paden wrote: Hello, Liam. I've tried your suggestions and have gotten some pretty good results. good! One thing I noticed is that actually loading the images is very expensive, and gimp doesn't behave very well while it's happening. It took

Re: [Gimp-developer] Update and apology

2012-07-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 21:53 +0530, Skand Hurkat wrote: very good idea. Not just inkscape, but I believe that Emacs, Vim and other text editors also create a backup file. AFAIK, the backup file is autosaved, and the original is kept as is, in case the user wishes to throw away all changes.

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Gimp for casual users

2012-07-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 18:02 +0200, Andreas Lemke wrote: Hi, I have done a simple usability study with a novice Gimp user (only one, not 1000 :-). Would it be ok if I post it on gui.gimp.org? But I would need to have an account. There doesn't seem to be an option to register. That site is

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8.1 when?

2012-08-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 13:25 -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote: But what's involved? GIMP releases are source-only, I take it that you don't use the manual... and that you use GIMP in only one language, and, further, that the language you use is US English... :-) In addition there are installers

Re: [Gimp-developer] history of great bugs

2012-09-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 18:52 +0300, Dima Ursu wrote: Hello, At university, at the lecture about software testing, we have been asked to look to software bugs, especially of big, known project which have caused troubles, like crashings, or some other abnormal behavior. Does anyone

Re: [Gimp-developer] Shape layers for GIMP?

2012-09-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 11:34 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Are there any plans to introduce something like this for GIMP? The GIMP plans are limited by having very few active programmers. Are you volunteering to work on a feature like this? That would indeed be awesome. Liam -- Liam Quin -

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rethinking mailing list rules

2012-10-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:00 +0200, Gfxuser wrote: http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Mindstorm:_Rework_of_mailing_list_rules. Much better, thank you for your hard work! Minor note, Write Readable should probably be Write Readably. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Path stroking mysteries

2012-10-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 02:48 +0200, Ofnuts wrote: - Make an ellipse selection - Stroke the selection with a 2px solid line, and anti-aliasing checked in the Stroke dialog: the line is jagged (at least on my Linux 2.6.8 and 2.7.2, and on a Windows 2.8) I think this is a bug. A workaround is

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

2012-11-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 21:30 +0100, yahvuu wrote: Hi again, Am 14.11.2012 19:00, schrieb Guillermo Espertino (Gez): b) support applications that still use blending in non-linear space. Web browsers, for instance. how much support for 'web type' blending modes does GIMP really need?

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

2012-11-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
[oops, resending from the right mail account, sorry] On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 21:30 +0100, yahvuu wrote: Hi again, Am 14.11.2012 19:00, schrieb Guillermo Espertino (Gez): b) support applications that still use blending in non-linear space. Web browsers, for instance. how much support for

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] 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 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

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

2012-11-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 13:57 +0100, yahvuu wrote: [...] GIMP's focus is on artistic needs. Whether a blend mode is useful or not, can only a judged from an artistical point of view. If you want to model physical reality with GIMP means, be careful to check whether the actually implemented math

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Gimp pdf export turns high res xcf into low res file and distorts text

2012-11-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 12:59 -0800, Kamilla Elliott wrote: when I exported it to pdf, it was teeny tiny--about 2 inches by 1 inch Check that File-Print Size is plausible. It might be that it's using the size from one of the images you pasted. Always work at either the final resolution or (much

[Gimp-developer] grayscale theme [was: Re: Exported-but-not-saved prompt (was: Save/export, option to go back to old behaviour)]

2012-11-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 14:24 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Simon Budig wrote: In fact *because* we're dealing with lots of graphical elements we have to avoid distracting from the image the artist is working on. We had requests for a grayscale icon

Re: [Gimp-developer] Minor enhancements in the export dialog

2012-11-27 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 02:45 +0100, Ofnuts wrote: In this view I'd really like to have multiple windows, one per project, each with remembered file format and folder for import/open and for export. But it's not for today :-) gimp --new-instance ? The main problems with that are (1) it

[Gimp-developer] patch: change default units for colors/map/rotate colors, from radians over pi (!) to degrees

2012-12-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
The colors/map/rotate colors dialog box uses angles to show colour ranges; it defaults to using radians over pi for the angle. I'm pretty sure more Gimp users will want degrees than radians over pi for rotating colours. There's a pull-down menu to change it, but it's irritating to have to do that

Re: [Gimp-developer] patch: change default units for colors/map/rotate colors, from radians over pi (!) to degrees

2012-12-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 23:49 +0100, Michael Natterer wrote: Yeah, go ahead and push to 2-8 and master please. Thanks. Someone else will have to do that, I'm afraid - I've never had commit access, nor (I think) a gnome.org account. Or I can squirrel the patch away in bugzilla if you prefer. If

Re: [Gimp-developer] patch: change default units for colors/map/rotate colors, from radians over pi (!) to degrees

2012-12-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 11:05 +0100, Michael Natterer wrote: Yes please file a bug done, with patch attached, 689712 Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml

Re: [Gimp-developer] Inserting URL's

2013-01-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-01-01 at 17:52 +, Paul McCarthy wrote: Hi. I have GIMP 2.8 and I've been looking everywhere to tell me how to insert a URL into an image or layer. It depends on what you mean. 1. you want the text of the URL (http://www.example.org/;) to appear in the image... (1) select the

Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 23:35 -0300, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote: I think a more conservative setting, say 3 or 5 would be more a flexible default. Yes, probably; I have the default set to 135 lines, which is still not very many when you have a 10,000-pixel-wide image. Liam -- Liam Quin

Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 20:54 +0100, Daniel Hornung wrote: What if not the number of lines were fixed but the distance between lines in screen units (physical distance or fixed amount of pixels)? I could nearly always live with a line every 10 or 20 pixels, and would find it very convenient

Re: [Gimp-developer] multithreading and GEGL

2013-01-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 17:10 -0500, Paka wrote: psaux does not reveal any opencl process or library being loaded. You'd more likely need to use strace to see if the library was opened; I am not sure that anything would show up in ps in this case. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Change Request: Redesign the Color Balance UI

2013-02-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 22:57 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Timo Witte wrote: I used Color Balance a lot recently. And i want to propose a redesign of the UI to make it more intuitive. [...] http://i.imgur.com/PhaXziO.png would probably be a slightly

Re: [Gimp-developer] unified transform tool

2013-02-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 13:41 +0100, peter sikking wrote: actually next month I am teaching interaction again and will give my students the exercise ‘precision rotate and precision perspective one or two tools?’ including of course redesigning the tools. I will need some essential scenarios

Re: [Gimp-developer] unified transform tool

2013-02-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
[resent from the right mail account. Evolution actually sucks if you have multiple mail accounts as it seems to choose the one for replies at random] On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 21:16 +0100, peter sikking wrote: [...] Some other use cases: * skew by 45 degrees, or by a specific measured distance

Re: [Gimp-developer] Ways to improve Gimp 2.9 performance

2013-02-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 12:16 -0500, Elle Stone wrote: Short of building a new computer (not going to happen!), what else can I do to improve Gimp performance? Which hardware upgrade(s) might give the most performance improvement for the least amount of money? More memory. Max it out. In the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Posibility to filter fonts

2013-03-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 16:27 +0100, Anke Lange wrote: For windows there seems to be a possibility to blend out fonts via font-manager, FontMatrix is a Linux font manager packaged for most Linux distributions. It has a somewhat idiosyncratic user interface and uses Qt (not sure if it uses KDE

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP and wmii

2013-03-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 23:30 +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote: Hello, I'm investigating an issue with running GIMP later than 2.6 under wmii window manager. The issue occurs when GIMP is being run in the stacked tiling mode, when inactive windows are collapsed to their titlebars only, and the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Ways to improve Gimp 2.9 performance

2013-03-22 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 16:34 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: I'd prefer that Gimp to monopolize both CPUs and get the job done twice as fast. Would a real-time kernel setup like the audio linux distributions use help? Is there a setting in Gimp that I missed? Or a compile-time switch in babl, gegl,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Cutting the bloat out of .GDYN files

2013-04-05 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 19:12 -0700, Richard Gitschlag wrote: Ideas - Does GIMP really need to output pressure curves for an input that is not actually mapped to something? - Does GIMP really need to output a full lookup table if the specified curve type is smooth (the apparent default)

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request to GIMP

2013-04-16 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 18:08 -0400, Arwa Hamid wrote: To enhance the usability, when the user starts the software, I suggest the following, a box can be popped up asking if he wants to create a new image or open an existing image and response directly instead of the user pressing on

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request to GIMP

2013-04-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 08:55 +0200, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: On Wednesday 17 April 2013 Apr 01:14:39 Liam R E Quin wrote: Krita does this, iirc. Yeah... And it gives us no end of complaints, too. It seems that about half of the people I talk to love it, the other half hates it. We have had

Re: [Gimp-developer] How to request permission of using GIMP's screenshots on educational book?

2013-04-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 12:32 +0800, kitchi1982-copyri...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Dear GIMP developers, We are writing on behalf of our company to ask your permission to use screenshots of GIMP in a textbook. It is not necessary to obtain permission. The whole point of Free Software (Libre

Re: [Gimp-developer] tiff-error

2013-04-20 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 11:52 -0400, Partha Bagchi wrote: I don't believe this has anything to do with a specific tiff file. So attaching a tiff does not make sense to me. Since the problem doesn't happen for the GIMP developers, and you won't divulge enough information for people to determine

Re: [Gimp-developer] How Print Size can save pixel density into e.g. png file?

2013-05-08 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 10:34 +0300, Andrey Utkin wrote: I use the feature of changing image print density (in dpi) in GIMP to get predictable size of printed image. Now i want to do this programmaticaly. Note, you could probably use imagemagick to do this outside GIMP, if that helps. Liam --

Re: [Gimp-developer] Writing a totally different UI for GIMP

2013-06-17 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 19:14 +0400, Alberto Mardegan wrote: Hi all, a parallel-universe question: if I were to make a gimp-like application (just somewhat simpler and more limited) with a different UI and toolkit (say, QML), are there some parts of the GIMP codebase that would be useful

Re: [Gimp-developer] Progress indicators in GIMP [Was: OpenCL and GIMP tile size]

2013-06-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 06:20 +0200, scl wrote: - As soon as possible return to a state where the user can continue her/his work. This means: in the (blocking) foreground only process what the user imperatively needs to continue her/his work and use the progress indicator only for this. +1

Re: [Gimp-developer] does the current git master have 16/32-bit color channels and non-destructive editing?

2013-08-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 14:42 +1200, kcle...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I have an important photo post-processing job, and I will use gimp for this job only if it uses 16/32-bit channels. The git master version of gimp is not stable or feature complete - otherwise it would be a release. Yes,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Documentation on color spaces

2013-10-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2013-10-09 at 16:32 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: perhaps I should move the Guide out of the temp folder (which is for temporary posts) and over to the photography folder, with appropriate license information at the bottom and with the reference to Gimp from git and Cairo in Figure 6

Re: [Gimp-developer] M$ partners claim, they own property rights to GIMP

2013-12-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 16:09 -0600, Tim Mooney wrote: Also, didn't the original message indicate that the copyright complaint was against setup.exe? Just a guess - they got a list of filenames and assumed that any matches were copyright violations. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C,

Re: [Gimp-developer] New gitsource build segfault (Windows 8.1)

2013-12-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 18:01 -0500, Partha Bagchi wrote: I rebuilt glib-2.0 and I am still experiencing crashes. However, it's no longer the above message. Usually after opening 2 or 3 large 16-bit tiffs and running unsharp mask and some curves, I get the following with gdb: How large exactly,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Search Action dialog feature

2014-01-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 00:08 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: [...] So I'm the only one using keyboard shortcuts then? You actually File-Save with your *mouse*? How to you enter text on your text layers? My partner is an artist and almost never uses keyboard shortcuts. I use them all the time. It

Re: [Gimp-developer] Search Action dialog feature - user statement

2014-01-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 01:03 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:53 AM, peter sikking wrote: if the purpose of TITo is so clear, then tell me what it is, including a few words why it is valuable for GIMP users. Peter, you have been already told exactly that, in few

Re: [Gimp-developer] Any way to convince Gimp installed in a prefix to only use the plugins in the prefix?

2014-01-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 14:58 -0500, Elle Stone wrote: I usually have three or four separate installations of Gimp from git, each in its own prefix. Is there a way to tell Gimp in a prefix to only use the plugins in its own prefix, other than resetting the folder preferences every time I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Any way to convince Gimp installed in a prefix to only use the plugins in the prefix?

2014-01-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 16:56 -0500, Elle Stone wrote: So there is no way to keep the gimpdir in the actual prefix? It will always be inside the hidden .config folder? As far as I know that's the case. At least that's better than all the prefixes using the same folder. Yes. Note, you can

Re: [Gimp-developer] Remove you can drop dockable dialogs here label?

2014-02-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 19:03 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Gez wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/255376/gimp/GIMP-drop-icon.png In general, I like the idea, but there's an obvious usability problem here: this icon looks like a button, The

Re: [Gimp-developer] Remove you can drop dockable dialogs here label?

2014-02-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 13:30 -0300, Gez wrote: El vie, 14-02-2014 a las 19:03 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine escribió: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Gez wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/255376/gimp/GIMP-drop-icon.png [...] people will try to do is to click it. Hmm, that's a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Remove you can drop dockable dialogs here label?

2014-02-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 04:09 -0500, Sam Gleske wrote: Hide the drop icon (as it is currently mocked) completely until user mouses over the area. Regular users who don't populate that area don't necessarily need to see a drop area but new users can still discover it if they accidentally mouse

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature Request: FULL SCREEN (preview) mode for layer.

2014-02-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 12:20 -0800, stp wrote: [...] would be cool to have a short cut that uses instantly the whole screen for a preview. Isn't that F11? (you can rebind it, of course) -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books:

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature Request: FULL SCREEN (preview) mode for layer.

2014-02-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 11:41 -0800, stp wrote: f11 is not really a fullscreen. I mean a fullscreen like e.g. in irfanview (for windows), I don't have Windows here. When I press F11 I get just the image, no scrollbars or anything else. I do have to press control-shift-j if I want the image

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GUI] Scrollbars for Script-Fu dialogs

2014-03-01 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 10:03 -0500, g...@gimpchat.com wrote: [...] . There are times when I can't get rid of any input fields and still provide the functionality and flexibility needed to create a great script. Sometimes a secondary dialogue box is used, and sometimes an expandable area

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 08:55 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: The odd behavior of the display filters came to my attention because I've been working on rewriting some of the GIMP color management documentation and so took a closer look at what all the display filters do. Documenting (briefly) the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 22:03 -0300, Gez wrote: El lun, 10-03-2014 a las 16:06 -0400, Liam R E Quin escribió: +1 although for print work at this point you have to move to Krita or Photoshop, most likely photoShop with a preflight plugin, so that you can adjust individual plates (e.g

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 15:45 -0300, Gez wrote: There are three possible workflows for print: Early binding: All the assets are converted to CMYK and editing is done in CMYK. The files you send to the print shop are CMYK. Late Binding: Everything is worked in RGB. The print shop converts to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
[ resending this to the list, at Gez's request :) ] On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 17:43 -0300, Gez wrote: El mié, 12-03-2014 a las 02:19 -0400, Liam R E Quin escribió: On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 15:45 -0300, Gez wrote: Note that the case I mentioned the other day as seeming to be out of scope is when

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 01:19 -0300, Gez wrote: El mié, 12-03-2014 a las 23:35 -0400, Liam R E Quin escribió: Maybe we can have the flexibility and power just keeping two modes: 16 bit integer for memory-conservative tasks and 32 bit float for high quality stuff. That would rule out

Re: [Gimp-developer] Soft proofing and the GIMP Display Filters and Color Management settings

2014-03-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 16:45 -0300, Gez wrote: El jue, 13-03-2014 a las 02:36 -0400, Liam R E Quin escribió: GIF89a doesn't seem to support embedded ICC profiles, by the way ;) Untagged images for the web are always assumed as sRGB, You can't tag a GIF image in any case; in Chromium (say

Re: [Gimp-developer] About closing feature requests as invalid

2014-04-19 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 13:29 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: [...] Even if the text always contain looks a nice idea, let's talk about it on the mailing list, the invalid', if only for the status name means... invalid. It is not a nice word to receive as an evaluation for what one thinks is a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Ahead of time

2014-05-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 15:02 +0200, Thorsten Stettin wrote: Hi, folks, consider this: https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/gimp-edge/ It looks like a URL using the https registered URI scheme. Or did you mean something more? If I go there :) it seems to be a bug report relating

Re: [Gimp-developer] assets in the high bith depth age

2014-05-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 10:59 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: [...] I pǘe been talking with some heavy users (for professional use, even) - and one thing they miss is more consistency on asst handling (you can rename a palette or a gradient inline in the gradient list dialog, but not a pattern or

[Gimp-developer] stock images [was: Re: urgent]

2014-06-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 07:46 +0200, Anna Alia Algawam wrote: Good morning guys, it is 7:44 in the morning in Poland. I highly apreciate your comments and help. Since I am thinking about starting my own business in a year or two- I need to finish project firts, I am also thinking if you are

Re: [Gimp-developer] stock images [was: Re: urgent]

2014-06-11 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 22:10 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: This one is legit: http://www.freeimages.com/ ( formerly http://sxc.hu and recently purchased by Getty ) Some of the photos do have restrictions (eg, 'Author must be notified if the image is used in a public work' ), but the majority

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp just shows up as gray rectangle with rulers around

2014-09-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:17:30 -0700 YUMIKO oyumik...@msn.com wrote: HI\I am a mac user and my os is o mavarick.I downloaded gimp and opened it up to find the gray rectangle with gimp logo in the middle and rulers around.There are no bottuns to edit photos at all, nothing. Use the File menu to

Re: [Gimp-developer] One question

2015-03-17 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Tue, 2015-03-17 at 20:45 +0100, Nazzareno Zallocco wrote: Hello, excuse my English I fell into this seller Ebay: http://www.ebay.it/usr/radiussoftware?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 Hawking programs his company (CAD PRO Radius), but which are actually open source programs like your blender

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.9 useability - out of gamut and HDR channel values

2015-04-19 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 09:56 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: An issue that will arise for everyone who uses GIMP 2.9 is how to deal with HDR and out of gamut colors. Can't say it has arisen for me yet but I agree that (if we ignore rhetorical overstatement) it could be useful to address. What about

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp in private schools and educational institutions

2015-04-29 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 23:13 +0100, C R wrote: To put it into perspective, do a Google Image search for gimp, and see the ratio of GIMP project images to fetishy Pulp Fiction swag. The more common meaning of the word in English-speaking countries is a derogatory term for someone injured or

Re: [Gimp-developer] wtf with the download?

2015-05-08 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2015-05-08 at 22:04 +0100, C R wrote: I'd be ok with having two links labeled Download GIMP 2.8.14 via HTTP and Download GIMP 2.8.14 via Bittorrent right above each other, in any order. This should also help to reduce the explanation for Bittorrent to one short paragraph To

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp in private schools and educational institutions

2015-04-19 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 12:58 -0500, Sam Bagot wrote: A product called Gimp can't be used [in schools] Although GIMP can be used in at least some schools, I agree with your premise. These conversations always seem to run the same course: A: the name GIMP is offensive to me, or to people with

Re: [Gimp-developer] Cropping border color

2015-06-05 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 21:09 +0200, Ofnuts wrote: On 02/06/15 17:50, Burnell West wrote: On Jun 1, 2015, at 11:07 PM, Brad Gibson bradgibson...@yahoo.com wrote: It would be great if I could choose to see pure black around whatever I'm cropping, [...] Simply add a black layer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Download

2015-06-16 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 09:33 +0100, Toby Speight wrote: 0 In article 1434392541.19586.197.ca...@holoweb.net, 0 Liam R. E. Quin URL:mailto:l...@holoweb.net (Lee) wrote: Lee Free here means that if you modify the software you must make your Lee modifications (or the whole modified source

Re: [Gimp-developer] Configurable target selection by the Auto button on the Levels dialog

2015-06-15 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
, giving a UI feeling of slowness. I'm supportive of being able to set the levels/auto clipping percentage, perhaps in the Colours/Map/Stretch Contrast GEGL filter. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin l...@holoweb.net http://www.FromOldBooks.Org/ ___ gimp

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Download

2015-06-15 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 06:31 +, Avishai Noygershel wrote: Hello I have a question regarding your software license agreement. I was wondering if your software is completely free? Can I use this software for free in a profitable organization? Yes. Free here means that if you modify the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-10-04 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:36:02 -0300 Gez wrote: > El mié, 30-09-2015 a las 23:49 +0200, Michael Natterer escribió: > > I hope that nobody uses debian testing, the most unstable of > > all debians :) > Sore feelings after the gcc-5 migration? :-) More to the point for GIMP

Re: [Gimp-developer] Portable development environment for GIMP

2015-10-02 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 22:48:39 +0200 Jehan Pagès wrote: > Actually not all core devs. Over time, I have built GIMP on Mageia, > Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu), and now Fedora. Though it is true that > at times, I happened sometimes to be forced to build more dependencies

Re: [Gimp-developer] Image viewer for openexr and floating point tiff file formats, and maybe even XCF?

2015-12-31 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 21:30 -0500, Elle Stone wrote: >  > Does the gnome file manager show thumbnails for GIMP 2.9 XCF files? No - it tries to but they come out looking like glitch-art. But png is broken for me right now too, probably because I'm in the middle of an upgrade. The 2.8 xcf files

Re: [Gimp-developer] Image viewer for openexr and floating point tiff file formats, and maybe even XCF?

2016-01-01 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 11:37 -0500, Elle Stone wrote: >  > 1. Open a folder with an image viewer, so that all the image files > in  > the folder (well, at least floating point and integer tiffs, openexr  > files, pngs, and jpegs; also raw files would be nice) are displayed > by  > the image viewer.

Re: [Gimp-developer] qpc mapping

2016-01-09 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
if I could use this to get a page curl effect. I suggest making an entry in the GIMP plugin registry for it. Liam -- Liam R. E. Quin <l...@holoweb.net> The barefoot typographer ___ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address:gimp-develop

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