Re: [Gimp-developer] Who's coming to GIMPCon?

2004-06-07 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
Hi, On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 13:22, Dave Neary wrote: > A number of people have suggested that a list of attendees who have > confirmed they're going would be useful - so could anyone who plans to > be there reply to the lists saying so, please? Don't forget to register > at http://2004.guadec.org

Re: [Gimp-developer] volunteer needed for preferences dialog

2004-06-07 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
Hi, On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 02:54, Sven Neumann wrote: > IMO it's about time to try to clean up the preferences dialog once > more. Here are a couple of ideas on how the dialog could be improved: [snip good ideas] This is what we've talked about earlier - and I agree; the prefs dialog needs a make

[Gimp-developer] Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, I'd like to get some feedback on the following plan for the Blur plug-in (details are in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142318): The plan is to remove the randomize and repeat functionality. That would allow us to also remove the (quite confusing) dialog. Filters->Blur->Blur would

[Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: I'd like to get some feedback on the following plan for the Blur plug-in (details are in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142318): The plan is to remove the randomize and repeat functionality. That would allow us to also remove the (quite confusing) dialog. Sounds O

[Gimp-developer] GIMP Conference stand?

2004-06-07 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, Do people think that it is worthwhile for the GIMP to have a stand at GUADEC? It would perhaps be a way to sell some t-shirts, have a couple of computers with people doing demos, and have an easy popint-of-contact for people when they were on their down-time. The problem is that it woul

[Gimp-developer] Re: Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-06-07 at 1149.52 +0200): > The plan is to remove the randomize and repeat functionality. That > would allow us to also remove the (quite confusing) dialog. > Filters->Blur->Blur would then be a simple blur with a 3x3 convolution > kernel. It would be fast and easy to use but

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, GSR - FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The plan is to remove the randomize and repeat functionality. That > > would allow us to also remove the (quite confusing) dialog. > > Filters->Blur->Blur would then be a simple blur with a 3x3 convolution > > kernel. It would be fast and easy to use b

[Gimp-developer] Re: Re: Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-06-07 at 1649.35 +0200): > Sorry, but what other scripts or plug-ins are you referring to? IMO it > would be a good thing to have a simple and fast plug-in that does the > job w/o a dialog and I fail to see what other plug-in would provide > this functionality. Convolution

[Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.0.1 compilation problem.

2004-06-07 Thread Rodrigo Severo
Hi, I'm having problems compiling Gimp 2.0.1 on my Conectiva Linux 9 machine. The error is: if gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../app -I/usr/local/gtk+/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/local/glib/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/glib/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/glib/include/glib-2.0 -

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Re: Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread geert jordaens
GSR - FR wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-06-07 at 1649.35 +0200): Sorry, but what other scripts or plug-ins are you referring to? IMO it would be a good thing to have a simple and fast plug-in that does the job w/o a dialog and I fail to see what other plug-in would provide this functionality.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Ellen Reitmayr
Hi Simon, > Visually pressing down CTRL or ALT is immediately visible in the tool > options: The mode switch will switch accordingly. What else would you > suggest to communicate this more clearly? When users are concentrated on drawing a path (and at the same time are exploring different keyboar

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Ellen Reitmayr
Hi, [this is a response to both jimmac and sven] Selection shortcuts: No, I didn't know that there is a difference between the modifiers pressed when you start to create the selection and the modifiers you press while adjusting the selection - it's really very powerful and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.0.1 compilation problem.

2004-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Rodrigo Severo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think my distribution should have two separate packages: > fontconfig-devel and xft-devel. I have already asked them to consider > creating them but until I eventually manage to get these packages I'm > looking for another solution. > > On the o

[Gimp-developer] Re: Re: Re: Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-06-07 at 1759.17 +0200): > calling the convolution matrix plug in and scripts to preset it a simple > replacement ? Well, what would you call a script that just puts a menu entry and calls convolution matrix with a fixed matrix? > Please rephrase that to a powerful replac

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Ellen Reitmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But another reason why I think it is better to keep the dialogs for > transformation is that it is uncommon to have confirmation/cancel > buttons in the tool options dialog. I'm not sure, but as much as I'm > concerned there is no tool that makes a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:15:15PM +0200, Ellen Reitmayr wrote: > Hi Simon, > > > Visually pressing down CTRL or ALT is immediately visible in the tool > > options: The mode switch will switch accordingly. What else would you > > suggest to communicate this more clearly? > > When users are concen

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Ellen Reitmayr wrote: > Hi, > > [this is a response to both jimmac and sven] > > > Selection shortcuts: > > > No, I didn't know that there is a difference between the modifiers > pressed when you start to create the selection and th

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.0.1 compilation problem.

2004-06-07 Thread Rodrigo Severo
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, Rodrigo Severo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On the other side, I believe gimp should be able to use just the indicated fontconfig installation. I'm setting the following variables on gimp configuration and still can't compile gimp: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/fontconfig-2.2.0

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Re: Re: Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread William Skaggs
GSR - FR wrote: > Well, what would you call a script that just puts a menu entry and > calls convolution matrix with a fixed matrix? The main reason not to use convmatrix is that internally it always does a 5x5 convolution, regardless of the matrix entries. This means it should take almost three

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > thanks again for taking all of this time to review TheGIMP. once > again i am curious about samples personal projects of yours that you > used TheGIMP for. having actual ideas and needs for graphics tends > to make the gimp make more sense, in my experience. Carol, can you please stop thi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Re: Re: Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, GSR - FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-06-07 at 1759.17 +0200): > > calling the convolution matrix plug in and scripts to preset it a > > simple replacement ? > > Well, what would you call a script that just puts a menu entry and > calls convolution matrix with a fixe

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.0.1 compilation problem.

2004-06-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Rodrigo Severo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You didn't suggest a fix for GIMP > > Yes, I did. As it seems there is some doubt about, let me try to > make it clearer: > > My suggested fix is to make gimp use the indicated (through the proper > variables) fontconfig library no matter which

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:20:32PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > > thanks again for taking all of this time to review TheGIMP. once > > again i am curious about samples personal projects of yours that you > > used TheGIMP for. having actual ideas and needs for graphics tends > > to make t

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:20:32PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > > thanks again for taking all of this time to review TheGIMP. once > > again i am curious about samples personal projects of yours that you > > used TheGIMP for. having actual ideas and needs for graphics tends > > to make t

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp 2.0.1 compilation problem.

2004-06-07 Thread Rodrigo Severo
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, The GIMP build process already uses the environment variables you were talking about. There is no way to change how the compiler looks for headers, at least not in the GIMP source tree. Ok, I think I'm persuaded. I will keep trying my luck with Conectiva. Tahnks again, Rodri

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:09:49PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 08:20:32PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > and someone who through things through enough to say "rtfm" because "and someone who thought things through enough to say "rtfm" because", even carol ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Michael Schumacher
Carol Spears wrote: in the united states, there exists a condition where people are being educated for a test. teachers that do not teach the content for the test are removed. For usability tests? I doubt that this is the case, though it might explain the usability of the software produced by a v

[Gimp-developer] using gimp

2004-06-07 Thread Carol Spears
i think we won the usability test when we were able to provide someone as well-rounded and decent as roman to help with the tests. this is a volunteer effort. and then they need more? they needed more from suse, who they must have paid. carol ___ Gim

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:26:39PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > >in the united states, there exists a condition where people are being > >educated for a test. teachers that do not teach the content for the > >test are removed. > > For usability tests? I doubt that t

Re: [Gimp-developer] Usability test - Results available

2004-06-07 Thread Carol Spears
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 12:49:50PM -0700, Carol Spears wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:26:39PM +0200, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > > no, i really meant what i said. i am actually very nervous about this > because i had in real life a roman who failed a test that was made for > testing purpos

Re: [Gimp-developer] Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread Christopher Curtis
Sven Neumann wrote: I'd like to get some feedback on the following plan for the Blur plug-in (details are in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142318): The plan is to remove the randomize and repeat functionality. [...] So the question is, is anyone actually using this functionality? Are th

Re: [Gimp-developer] Blur plug-in

2004-06-07 Thread William Skaggs
Sven Neumann wrote: > So the question is, is anyone actually using this > functionality? Are there scripts out there that rely on > plug-in-blur-randomize to be available? Christopher Curtis wrote: > Is it possible to remove the dialog without removing the options? Yes, it is possible, that's