Re: [Gimp-developer] Dog-bone

2020-08-19 Thread Simon Budig
Hi John. John Tapsell via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > I love the path effects, and there's a particularly useful path effect that > I use all the time: > > Corners (Fillet/Chamfer) Are you sure you're reaching out to the right mailing list? I am unaware of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Python vs Scheme

2020-07-22 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Massimo. Massimo Fidanza via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > in the source archive there are 51 .scm scripts and 11 .py Scheme scripts > has a complex syntax and I do not know how much it is used today. What are > the advantages of Scheme compared to Python? Would

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP Open Ports

2019-09-20 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Estefania. Hernandez, Estefania [USA] via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I recently scanned GIMP and noticed that GIMP uses TCP 2177. > > I was wondering if I could get information on TCP 2177, such as, what is the > purpose of TCP 2177? I

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP in the textile industry: handling of indexed colors

2019-05-28 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. Please see my previous mail for more context of this problem. So here we go about the handling of colors in indexed images: In the current toolchain for the carpets the images are indexed, i.e. instead of RGB data per pixel each pixel stores an index into a color palette. At the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Using GIMP in the textile industry

2019-05-28 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. Please see my previous mail for more context of this problem. Working with indexed images: I witnessed one very funky way of working with indexed images and I am not sure if I have fully wrapped my head around the ways they use some features of the proprietary tool they're using now.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Using GIMP in the textile industry: Document Management

2019-05-28 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. Please see my previous mail for more context of this problem. Integration into a Document Management System It will be necessary to incorporate GIMP into a site specific Document Management System. I kind of suspect that this will end up being either a separate plugin to access the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Using GIMP in the textile industry

2019-05-28 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. Please see my previous mail for more context of this problem. In the textile industry working with patterns is hugely important: One quite important aspect of designing carpets is dealing with patterns. The kind of projects we're talking about here is of the scale "print carpet for a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Using GIMP in the textile industry

2019-05-28 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. Please see my previous mail for more context of this problem. We also discussed some changes to the UI: The company representative I was talking to was also concerned about the amount of functionality in the GIMPs UI and fears that it might be overwhelming to the operators, plus that it

Re: [Gimp-developer] What would it take to add an option for the Pencil tool to support brush transparency? (James Houx)

2019-05-22 Thread Simon Budig
James Houx via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > How difficult would it be to modify the pencil tool to support transparency? the regular paintbrush and the pencil tool are both using the gimppaintcore for painting the brushes. The difference between pencil and

Re: [Gimp-developer] A Process for Each Plugin

2019-05-07 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Ahmad. Ahmad Nouralizadeh via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > I wonder why GIMP spawns a separate process for each plugin (e.g., by > calling g_spawn_async() @app/plug-in/gimpplugin.c:368). For example, I > opened an image and the contents of the image was loaded

Re: [Gimp-developer] Business usage of GIMP

2019-02-19 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Ivan. Edgar Iván López via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > We do not sell ads or things related, the only thing we would use your > software for is in-company communication of events photos, meetings, > posters and so on. You're welcome to use GIMP for all the

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-web] Alexandre Prokoudine attacks on GIMP critics around the Web

2019-01-09 Thread Simon Budig
Ryan Stark via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > Ardour is poor and there were lots of DAWs being developed on Linux > (probably still are but I don't look into it any more). Paul at Ardour is > arrogant. It doesn't matter if he is funded. Since on these issues you

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-web] Alexandre Prokoudine attacks on GIMP critics around the Web

2019-01-08 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Ryan. Your collection of pet peeves is impressive. Yet I believe that your generalization that they must affect everybody is blown way out of proportion. Ryan Stark via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > So many of Gimp's features seem unfinished. For example, look

Re: [Gimp-developer] small suggestion for consistency

2018-10-25 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Marco. Marco Ciampa via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:37:12AM +0200, Simon Budig wrote: > > Marco Ciampa via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > > > The menu layer should named laye

Re: [Gimp-developer] small suggestion for consistency

2018-10-25 Thread Simon Budig
Marco Ciampa via gimp-developer-list (gimp-developer-list@gnome.org) wrote: > The menu layer should named layers for consistency with the other > menus like colors, tools, filters. Would you suggest to change "Image" to "Images" as well? Both feels wrong to me, since the "Layer" menu mostly

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP branched: new stable branch gimp-2-10

2018-05-22 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: > On 05/21/2018 11:13 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote: > > Just to be clear, the toolkit update here is not*just* a necessary evil. > > It will also be totally awesome, even feature-wise! > > > > > Simply to get there, we have to pass through an

Re: [Gimp-developer] Rectangle selection tool - fixes and more

2018-05-12 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Samuel. Samuel Rats (samuel.r...@gmail.com) wrote: > I noticed a TODO in the code of the rectangle selection tool, about > changing the internal representation of the selection zone from gdouble > ((x1, y1), (x2, y2)) to gint (x1, y1) + width & height. > So, that's basically what I did. Since

Re: [Gimp-developer] Paths, selections, and stroking

2018-05-11 Thread Simon Budig
Dov Grobgeld (dov.grobg...@gmail.com) wrote: > My guess is that this happens is that the original ellipse is first reduced > from a contour to a bitmap "selection", and then the edges of this bitmap > is somehow traced. > > On the other hand the result may be improved by instead of stroking the >

Re: [Gimp-developer] Participation at Apple Developer Program

2018-03-27 Thread Simon Budig
alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com (alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com) wrote: > Wed like to know opinions of all developers and contributors of GIMP, > but not everyone is on IRC. Please vote :) I voted "I don't care". Bye, Simon -- si...@budig.de

Re: [Gimp-developer] IRC?

2017-05-11 Thread Simon Budig
Jehan Pagès (jehan.marmott...@gmail.com) wrote: > What's up with the IRC channel? We had a mass join/spam event happening. :-( The restrictions will be lifted hopefully soon. send a private message to someone of the regulars to get invited into the channel. > I just come back from shopping,

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP license from the GIMP team ?

2017-04-04 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Miguel. Entertainment Mobile wrote: > My understanding is that GIMP trademark and logo is free to use > according to GPL. However Google Team says that I must have the GIMP > team permission in order to use the word "GIMP" in the app name. Do > you know how we could obtain the GIMP team

Re: [Gimp-developer] Proposal for erasing background from an image

2017-03-02 Thread Simon Budig
John Tapsell (johnf...@gmail.com) wrote: > So to restate this again - I want to know how to change the top layer > $latex src$ so that I can have the maximum possible alpha without changing > the final visual image at all. I.e. remove as much of the background as > possible from our

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wilber Logo

2017-01-28 Thread Simon Budig
Riley Tallman (rptall...@gmail.com) wrote: > I would like to design t-shirts with the Wilber logo and commercially sell > those shirts online. I have not made the designs yet because I wanted to > make sure that I have the right permission and legal ability to do so. > > The design will have

Re: [Gimp-developer] I'm going slightly mad.

2017-01-11 Thread Simon Budig
Thorsten Stettin (thorsten.stet...@gmail.com) wrote: > Why do you need libpng >= 1.6.25, and lcms2 >= 2.7 in order to build Gimp > 2.9.5 - commit 36ebe03770fd8b87102e95cd6c45b194a45a8ba3? Libpng is due to security issues: commit a5073ad9289f7e05ef38d2ce99dc71e91983b434 Author: Michael Natterer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plans to resolve hotkey conflicts?

2016-12-18 Thread Simon Budig
C R (caj...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Uh. In what way isn't that the case currently? > > Try Alt-C, s for hue/saturation > Then try it again after you complete the hue saturation action > On the second run alt-C, s skips to Colourise Oh, indeed. That feels stupid. Bye, Simon --

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plans to resolve hotkey conflicts?

2016-12-18 Thread Simon Budig
C R (caj...@gmail.com) wrote: > I should be able to hit a sequence of hotkeys to get to sub menu items, and > doing it again should get me to the same function each and every time I > perform them. Uh. In what way isn't that the case currently? GTK+ cycles through all the "conflicting"

Re: [Gimp-developer] Pencil - Tool Options and Hardness

2016-06-22 Thread Simon Budig
C R (caj...@gmail.com) wrote: > Yes, it saves time if everyone reads the entire thread before commenting. > I'm guilty of this too sometimes, though, so don't worry about it. :) You know, I actually reread, and I find the thread highly confusing. It starts with the hardness-parameter in the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Pencil - Tool Options and Hardness

2016-06-22 Thread Simon Budig
C R (caj...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Have you actually tried to do what I outlined above? > > > > > Have you? lol > No - I haven't. It's not currently possible to turn off anti-aliasing on > the brush tool, so it's not possible to "test" it. Ah, sorry. I missed that we're discussing hypothetical

Re: [Gimp-developer] Pencil - Tool Options and Hardness

2016-06-22 Thread Simon Budig
C R (caj...@gmail.com) wrote: > > C R (caj...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > A pixel brush seems like an adequate replacement for that functionality. > > > > Again, no. > > > > Try working with a pixel brush in a bigger magnification and check how > > the pixel-grid-snapping of the pencil tool makes a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Sometimes the contents of config/devicerc are not read

2016-06-09 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: > "Error while parsing '/home/elle/code/gimpdefault/install/config/devicerc' > in line 7: unexpected character '-', expected number (float) - fatal parse > error" Yay, now the implicit assumptions crop up :) Thanks for spotting this. > 2.

Re: [Gimp-developer] New Image/Color Management option

2016-06-04 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Gez. Gez (lis...@ohweb.com.ar) wrote: > Although I share your shock, I think Michael is right. Almost nobody > using GIMP understands color management, because there is virtually > nobody using GIMP seriously, and probably nobody will because of this > kind of design decisions. [...] > Instead

Re: [Gimp-developer] [darktable-dev] Darktable plug-in in GIMP - Darktable for Windows?

2016-04-28 Thread Simon Budig
Michael Natterer (mi...@gimp.org) wrote: > On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 15:43 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: > > On 04/28/2016 03:40 PM, Elle Stone wrote: > > > > > > Delete the following text from pluginrc after you uninstall > > > darktable, > > > and you can use a different raw plug-in: > > Is there an

[Gimp-developer] London/Harrow calling...

2016-02-10 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. The Libre Graphics Meeting 2016 is rapidly approaching and we need to get our act together to rent the usual gimp-appartment. If you are a london resident and if you happen to know of an appartment where 8-12 people could reside in the weeks surrounding 15-18 I'd love to hear from you.

Re: [Gimp-developer] 10 bit color

2015-12-16 Thread Simon Budig
MassimoIT (massimo.bertine...@tiscali.it) wrote: > I'm a windows user, so I've tried the 2.9 available at darkrefraction.com. > I'm very enthusiastic about the deep color precision introduced with the 2.9 > release, but I didn't find out the way to display 30 bit color. > Having introduced openGL,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Future of Python v2 scripts

2015-11-26 Thread Simon Budig
Joao S. O. Bueno (gwid...@gmail.com) wrote: > While it is is feasible to have Python3 as the system default install, > it is not practical to remove Python2 from the system. Even if it is > not installed by default (which I doubt very much) it will be > reachable via the default packaging system

Re: [Gimp-developer] Future of Python v2 scripts

2015-11-26 Thread Simon Budig
Ofnuts (ofn...@gmx.com) wrote: > On 26/11/15 11:53, Simon Budig wrote: > >It would make sense to switch to python 3 in sync with the > >(plugin-breaking) switch to gtk3 with the 3.0 release. > > Why would gtk3 break python plug-ins? I don't see that many that come with &g

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

2015-10-02 Thread Simon Budig
Liam R E Quin (l...@holoweb.net) wrote: > The difficulties of using Debian Testing are likely to outweigh any > benefits, plus anyone working closely with git gimp is likely to want > to test fixes to babl and/or gegl as they happen. gimp from git specifically depends on gegl/babl from git. Bye,

Re: [Gimp-developer] curvature filter

2015-07-27 Thread Simon Budig
Hello, Mr. Gong. Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com) wrote: If you don't have either time or interest, I do hope that someone will get involved and make a GEGL port of your filters. I'm sure that will benefit a lot of users. Also it would be necessary for someone else to

[Gimp-developer] Gimp at the Chaos Communication Camp 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Simon Budig
Hi all. This year there will be a Chaos Communication Camp again. In August this epic event will shake the world and you'll look at videos, regretting that you haven't been there. OR you could attend and celebrate hacker culture:

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

2015-04-15 Thread Simon Budig
Gez (lis...@ohweb.com.ar) wrote: [...] optional patch that provides and easy way to remove the name GIMP from the UI, replacing it for a different one? Now, seriously. What do devs think about this idea? If somebody provided a good patch for building GIMP easily with a different name as an

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

2015-04-11 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Sam. Sam Bagot (dsm...@gmail.com) wrote: Is there any thought on salvaging the marketing effort and renaming this product so that it can be taken seriously by people and institutions? Also, a big barrier to entry adopting Linux for people is a solid graphic manipulator. The bad branding

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-30 Thread Simon Budig
Kevin Payne (payn...@hotmail.com) wrote: Isn't it about time there was an interim release? - a line in the sand if you will. I think we will discuss this live at the libre graphics meeting at the end of april/beginning of may. Bye, Simon -- si...@budig.de

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Simon Budig
Gez (lis...@ohweb.com.ar) wrote: El vie, 27-03-2015 a las 09:16 -0400, Elle Stone escribió: On 03/26/2015 08:16 PM, Ofnuts wrote: It was also not so obvious to some more advanced users :) let's face it, in a software with the breadth of Gimp, everyone is going to overlook some feature.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Drop shadow - a question from an user - developer-version 2.9

2015-02-09 Thread Simon Budig
Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com) wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Simon Budig wrote: Does this GEGL op do anything for you at all? Because it does absolutely nothing for me (duly noted in http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Porting_filters_to_GEGL/UI_review

Re: [Gimp-developer] Drop shadow - a question from an user - developer-version 2.9

2015-02-09 Thread Simon Budig
Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com) wrote: [drop shadow] Does this GEGL op do anything for you at all? Because it does absolutely nothing for me (duly noted in http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Hacking:Porting_filters_to_GEGL/UI_review), seperate layer or no separate layer. Is the

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

2014-11-19 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Elle. Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: Whether to *ever* use unbounded sRGB chromaticities to perform edits on UserRGB data is NOT AN IMPLEMENTATION DETAIL. Unbounded sRGB is a mistake, pure and simple, *unless* the data is intended by the USER to be HDR sRGB data. It

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

2014-11-19 Thread Simon Budig
Since a few questions have popped up on IRC and it really is a weird concept to grasp I thought I'd expand a bit on the color math that is being discussed here. Sorry it is so long, I hope it is somewhat entertaining though :) Simon Budig (si...@budig.de) wrote: I think you are missing

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

2014-11-18 Thread Simon Budig
As a small aside... Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com) wrote: We'd like to keep the interaction professional, thank you. I'd like to ask everyone involved in this discussion to remove the gimp-user mailinglist from the CC-list. The level of this discussion really is hardcore

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

2014-11-17 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Elle. The following is my understanding, when pippin answers his answers have more authority than mine. Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: Putting aside coding considerations that might affect other software that uses babl and GEGL, here's my understanding of your current

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

2014-11-17 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: A slight preface here. I don't consider it important to focus on the *storage* of the pixel data, as in the actual bulk memory for the pixel data. If you choose to *store* the user's RGB data using chromaticities not of user's choosing,

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Test images and test suite (was Re: GIMP should fork babl and GEGL)

2014-11-13 Thread Simon Budig
Jehan Pagès (jehan.marmott...@gmail.com) wrote: Well for the contribute test images part, I'm not a photographer. I have a good enough Canon camera and I can try to shoot some objects with RAW on request though, but I won't guarantee the art quality for these. Though you'll say that's not the

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

2014-10-17 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: //begin quote from http://color.org/DevCon/devcon14.xalter While this fixed PCS is capable of delivering unambiguous color transforms, it cannot support the increasing demand for spectrally-based reproduction. [...] Tying GIMP to sRGB as

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

2014-10-17 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: On 10/17/2014 06:39 AM, Simon Budig wrote: Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: //begin quote from http://color.org/DevCon/devcon14.xalter While this fixed PCS is capable of delivering unambiguous color transforms, it cannot

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

2014-10-15 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: On 10/15/2014 08:30 AM, Øyvind Kolås wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Elle Stone When the user opens a color-managed fooRGB image, for which *specific* editing operations will the image be converted to unbounded sRGB? If the user

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

2014-10-14 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: On 10/14/2014 07:52 AM, Øyvind Kolås wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Elle Stone ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com wrote: To convert images to and from unbounded linear gamma sRGB, you MUST pass through XYZ. XYZ is the PCS. I remind

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

2014-10-14 Thread Simon Budig
Hi Thorsten. Thorsten Stettin (thorsten.stet...@gmail.com) wrote: with all due respect to you, I think you should contribute instead to babble. If you perceive Elles texts as babbling it seems that this discussion is way over your head and you might want to consider staying out of it. Thanks,

Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

2014-10-14 Thread Simon Budig
Christopher Curtis (ccurt...@gmail.com) wrote: I'll admit that this discussion is way over my head, but as it seems to involve only two people would it be better handled over a phone call? It appears that there are some basic assumptions that aren't in alignment. While it certainly could be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Precision Conversion Dithering and Triangular wave gradient issues

2014-09-02 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x004e7b7f in gimp_blend_tool_motion (tool=0x33f3370, coords=optimized out, time=optimized out, state=GDK_BUTTON1_MASK, display=0xe58180) at gimpblendtool.c:450 450 if

Re: [Gimp-developer] Two-minute(!)-survey on motivation and free time contribution of open source developers

2014-08-22 Thread Simon Budig
stefankull...@web.de via surveymonkey.com (mem...@surveymonkey.com) wrote: for a university research project at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) I would like to gather some original input from open source software developers. I kept the length of the survey to an absolute minimum!!!

Re: [Gimp-developer] Blend Tool UI

2014-06-25 Thread Simon Budig
peter sikking (pe...@mmiworks.net) wrote: Hmm, you might have misunderstood what I meant by shapebursts. The shapebursts are special gradients that mimic the shape of your selection (currently labeled Shaped (angular), Shaped (spherical), and Shaped (dimpled)). Anyway, at this point I'm

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on Steam

2014-03-06 Thread Simon Budig
Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com) wrote: Also, I don't understand neither why we are having this conversation, nor where the word consensus came from. I implied no consensus. You wrote the core team's opinion currently is, which implies that the core team (whoever that

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on Steam

2014-03-06 Thread Simon Budig
Sam Gleske (sam.mxra...@gmail.com) wrote: I'm curious to hear Simon's opinions since he openly admitted he was one of the against parties. Ok, so let me detail some of my concerns. I want to have it clear however, that this is not some sort of official statement from the gimp team, this is just

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on Steam

2014-03-06 Thread Simon Budig
Ofnuts (ofn...@laposte.net) wrote: Your reasoning seems to imply that Steam will become the sole source for Gimp downloads, while as I understand it it will only be an additional source. Making Gimp available on Steam would not be pushing people towards Steam, it would make Gimp more easily

Re: [Gimp-developer] Releasing a new locale?

2014-02-25 Thread Simon Budig
Michael Bauer (f...@akerbeltz.org) wrote: I've asked before but maybe it got missed because it was a double-barrel question. I've completed the main UI translation into Scottish Gaelic (gd) and done some of the other ancillary files. What's the process for making sure this gets released? I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Releasing a new locale?

2014-02-25 Thread Simon Budig
Simon Budig (si...@budig.de) wrote: Michael Bauer (f...@akerbeltz.org) wrote: I've completed the main UI translation into Scottish Gaelic (gd) and done some of the other ancillary files. What's the process for making sure this gets released? I unfortunately don't know the process itself

Re: [Gimp-developer] Changing order of placeholders

2014-01-30 Thread Simon Budig
Michael Bauer (f...@akerbeltz.org) wrote: Tha a' phongalachd \%2$s\ aig an dealbh \%1$s\ (%1$d) ach tha dùil ris a' phongalachd \%3$s\ I don't know what the original string is, but you're referring to the argument no 1 two times: one as a string, one as a decimal. That can't be right. Bye,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Changing order of placeholders

2014-01-30 Thread Simon Budig
Michael Bauer (f...@akerbeltz.org) wrote: Well, the source string says Image '%s' (%d) has precision '%s', but an image of precision '%s' is expected Then try this: Tha a' phongalachd \%3$s\ aig an dealbh \%1$s\ (%2$d) ach tha dùil ris a' phongalachd \%4$s\ (where I am unsure if 3 and 4

Re: [Gimp-developer] Search Action dialog feature

2014-01-15 Thread Simon Budig
Chris Mohler (cr33...@gmail.com) wrote: His concerns seem to be be... unfounded. So, what *is* Tito? A help system or a command line system? I have not seen an answer to that yet. And yes, I agree with Peter that this is a vital question. I mean: where does the it must be A or B come from?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Need help for gegl translation

2014-01-09 Thread Simon Budig
Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com) wrote: On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Julien Hardelin wrote: Some strings are difficult to translate in gegl interface. Could developpers give some explanations? This would be useful for all translators: 1- FFmpeg video output sink

Re: [Gimp-developer] How precise is Gimp 32-bit floating point compared to 16-bit integer?

2013-12-16 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: My question is, for Gimp from git, is 32-bit floating point more precise than 16-bit integer? Yes, at least for the range from 0.0 to 1.0. If so, by how much, and does it depend on the machine and/or things like the math instructions of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] How precise is Gimp 32-bit floating point compared to 16-bit integer?

2013-12-16 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (ellest...@ninedegreesbelow.com) wrote: So real colors can easily fall outside the range 0.0 to 1.0 if they are converted to sRGB. What happens to the precision when dealing with RGB values up around 2.5 or down around -0.9? Sign is stored in its own bit. Precision is not affected

Re: [Gimp-developer] Setting Up a Release Procedure

2013-11-28 Thread Simon Budig
Jehan Pagès (jehan.marmott...@gmail.com) wrote: Oh right. I just checked again. In the AUTHORS page, there is actually a Sven Neumann as maintainer alongside Mitch. I actually realize I made a mistake, because that's another Sven! Indeed :) Sven N. hasn't been very active in Gimp development

Re: [Gimp-developer] Quick-edit workflow

2013-11-09 Thread Simon Budig
Richard Gitschlag (strata_ran...@hotmail.com) wrote: And similar to you, one thing *I* don't get is why Export and Overwrite need to be separate commands. Because without this distinction you'd accidentially overwrite your precious orignal file after accidentially doing an Export instead of an

Re: [Gimp-developer] Documentation on color spaces

2013-10-10 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (l.elle.st...@gmail.com) wrote: On 10/9/13, Simon Budig si...@budig.de wrote: Another (slightly philosophical) issue for me is, that you never explain what you mean by color. I added a one-paragraph summary of color: http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/xyz-rgb.html What do

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

2013-10-07 Thread Simon Budig
jEsuSdA 8) (lis...@jesusda.com) wrote: I have found a file: gimpstock.h that contains this lines: /* missing icons: */ #define GIMP_STOCK_PALETTE GTK_STOCK_SELECT_COLOR I suppose this mean that there is no icon defined, so Gimp load a gtk one and it is impossible to

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

2013-10-06 Thread Simon Budig
jEsuSdA 8) (lis...@jesusda.com) wrote: Not for me! :( What kind of magic is this?! hehehe. Sorry, my fault. I was looking at the wrong icon. I see the problem now as well. Not sure what is happening there... Bye, Simon -- si...@budig.de

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

2013-10-05 Thread Simon Budig
jEsuSdA 8) (lis...@jesusda.com) wrote: El 05/10/13 01:05, Simon Budig escribió: jEsuSdA 8) (lis...@jesusda.com) wrote: But solving A does not solve B and the old coloured icon still appears. ¿?¿?¿? :( ok, weird. yes. :( Dunno, I added the following section to the imagerc and it just

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] gimpshop:

2013-08-27 Thread Simon Budig
Dulce Oración (escogidapord...@gmail.com) wrote: What is Gimpshop? And how I can get it? If you don't know what it is, why do you want it? (It basically is a hacked up outdated version of gimp, we strongly recommend not using it). Bye, Simon -- si...@budig.de

Re: [Gimp-developer] New veres old

2013-03-07 Thread Simon Budig
Chris Mohler (cr33...@gmail.com) wrote: I can't speak for everyone, but for me: the day GIMP switches to a closed-source model will be a dark one, indeed. This actually is virtually impossible. There are tons of contributors in the codebase and relicensing that one would mean getting them all

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp multipage tiff

2012-12-07 Thread Simon Budig
Oleg (lego12...@yandex.ru) wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 10:15:58AM +0100, Michael Natterer wrote: The only thing that helps is writing a patch :) Of course :-), but i just think about some donation that can help with an intrest in the tiff saving. Is this possible? It is possible to

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

2012-11-19 Thread Simon Budig
Graeme Gill (grae...@argyllcms.com) wrote: Simon Budig wrote: We cannot just make the assumption that oh, its a JPEG. *clearly* the user wants us to discard information on saving. You really think they want you to save a lot of invented bits and blow their file up in size with all

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

2012-11-19 Thread Simon Budig
Alberto Mardegan (ma...@users.sourceforge.net) wrote: Is it actually possible for a user to lose the layers when saving to JPEG with gimp 2.6? The JPEG plugin asks to flatten the image, at which points the users would cancel the process if he really cares about them. Or do you have reports

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

2012-11-19 Thread Simon Budig
Tobias Lunte (tobias.lu...@hfg-gmuend.de) wrote: Personally, I've never really understood why GIMP doesn't use more graphical elements in its UI (yes, I know, GIMP already uses quite a bit, but given that it's a program for photo-manipulation, we can assume that most of it's users are inclined

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

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] Overlay Mode - fix.

2012-11-14 Thread Simon Budig
Paul Geraskin (paul_geras...@mail.ru) wrote: If you have read the article.. it happens only if you use gaussian blur filter which makes some color calculations with alpha. Please take a deep breath, relax a little and don't jump to conclusions. This article is exactly about the blending

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

2012-11-13 Thread Simon Budig
Jeff Maples (grapn...@gmail.com) wrote: I agree with Paul on the overlay mode. The patch is excellent, and it makes importing files from Photo$hop more consistent. I think it should be the default. Just my two cents. The problem with the approach Paul took in the bug report is, that it

Re: [Gimp-developer] Why the endless background conversions between linear and regular sRGB TRC?

2012-08-31 Thread Simon Budig
Elle Stone (l.elle.st...@gmail.com) wrote: The purpose of the constant background converting back and forth between two tone curves, sRGB TRC and linear gamma, is not clear at all. Well, it is not on purpose. It is basically a side-effect of trying to port Gimp to the new infrastructure

Re: [Gimp-developer] News of a new image enhancement algorithm ...

2012-08-22 Thread Simon Budig
sam tygier (samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk) wrote: If you look at the fences under the smaller arches, they have been interpolated from nothing. does the algorithm somehow spot the similar regions at other scales, and filled in the small arches with copies of the big arches? Apparently so: Our

Re: [Gimp-developer] A letter of complaint

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Budig
Michael Henning (dra...@darkrefraction.com) wrote: If you can imagine, we certainly don't intend the GIMP to crash. What? I wasted *hours* over gimp sourcecode to hide crashers in there while maintaining plausible deniability. I can't have my work being disregarded in such a blunt manner!!1!

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UI ... hesitant about compiling a list...

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Budig
RMMjr (bob.montgomery...@gmail.com) wrote: I've worked with a lot of software, and delved into usability issues, and while I'm not a luminary like Nielsen/Norman Co, I can recognize when a UI is taxing me, or in some cases, when it reduces me to babbling, schitzo spaz trying to learn again

Re: [Gimp-developer] Multiply blend mode in GIMP

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Budig
Calculemus (calculemus1...@gmail.com) wrote: I am reading this: docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-concepts-layer-modes.html and I wonder why is the formula for Multiply, E = (M * I) / 255? Why divide with 255, that is the part that confuses me. Should it not be just M * I and then clamp the result in

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

2012-06-15 Thread Simon Budig
Cristian Secară (li...@secarica.ro) wrote: If I use OpenOffice/LibreOffice and export a document to something different than OpenDocument format, if after export I just close the program, the program simply closes. _This_ is normal. This is just not true. * open a .odt file into libreoffice *

Re: [Gimp-developer] Work for new contributors (news from 2012-05-04)

2012-05-31 Thread Simon Budig
Conley Moorhous (conleymoorh...@gmail.com) wrote: I would like to start contributing to GIMP. I was going to start with an old enhancement request on bugzilla, but I don't know my way around the source code yet. A good way to get guidance is to drop by in the #gimp IRC channel on gimpnet

Re: [Gimp-developer] High bit depth processing

2012-05-13 Thread Simon Budig
Partha Bagchi (parth...@gmail.com) wrote: Is there is something one should know about the interaction with gegl for loading tiff or everything is contained in file-tiff-load.c? I have not yet pushed any changes to file-tiff-load.c. But if you want to look at how to use gegl for loading files

Re: [Gimp-developer] High bit depth processing

2012-05-12 Thread Simon Budig
Alexandre Prokoudine (alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com) wrote: 16bit PNG can be loaded and saved EXR opens as 32bit float, but is saved with 16bit precision. Also .hdr files are handled by file-gegl as well. Simon already evaluated porting TIFF loader to GEGL, but I couldn't understand a

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp 2.8 splash screen suggestion

2012-04-17 Thread Simon Budig
Martin Nordholts (ense...@gmail.com) wrote: I like it more, but I still think the white diagonal line is too distracting I am not a fan of this kind of nit-picking. While we have certain requirements for the splash (e.g. to allow for the startup texts etc.) we should try to avoid pleasing