[Gimp-developer] Tips for 2.6

At first my English is not very good, but I hope you can understand it ;) My tips for GIMP 2.6: - a more advanced textool with options for bold/underline etc. - Layer options dialog. (options for selected layer: shadows, inner glow etc, see Photoshop:

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: my summary.

Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:42 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote: > Roadmap will be closed by the end of this week, so I'd like to make a > summary of the main issues I'd like to see fixed for 2.6 Nice to remind us of some issues but we are not going to put user wishes on our roadmap. It is rath

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 00:40 +0100, peter sikking wrote: > * solve user request #1, part 1: one menu bar, keep window with >menu bar open when no image is open, true floating inspectors, >transparency where inspectors overlap the image (found a way >how it can be faked); I don't t

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

Sven wrote: >> * solve user request #1, part 1: one menu bar, keep window with >>menu bar open when no image is open, true floating inspectors, >>transparency where inspectors overlap the image (found a way >>how it can be faked); > > I don't think that "true floating inspectors" are i

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

On Nov 7, 2007 2:40 AM, peter sikking wrote: > and something about text (layers), that is not so trivial in the UI btw, > text, svg and other vector stuff need their own stacking order within a > layer and if you want to avoid the question "are they above or in the > layer pixels", then they need

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:47 +0100, peter sikking wrote: > > I don't think that "true floating inspectors" are implementable at > > all. > > But perhaps you need to explain first what "true floating" means. > > let's see: always on top of any normal window, but under menus and > dialogs; do

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 17:29 +0100, Marcus Heese wrote: > First of all (although perhaps the least important), it would be good to > have a well-designed font selection dialog, that allows a quick > selection of a font even when you have a lot of fonts installed and > you're perhaps searching

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 16:22 +0100, peter sikking wrote: > well, obviously where one works with colors in the inspector that > part is either never or on mouse-over not going to be transparent. Where we are back at the point where this is not likely going to be ever possible on all supported

[Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

Hi, I've made a little research about typography in the last week because everybody on the list was talking about this "this time we get it right"-thing. And here are the problems I see and some suggestions to it: First of all (although perhaps the least important), it would be good to have a w

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement - Diagonal line crop guide

Tim Jedlicka wrote: > (repost - got lost somewhere the first time) > > I stumbled upon this link describing the use of the Diagonal (45 degree > diagonal from each corner of an image) as the optimum crop guide ("better" > than rule-of-thirds or golden rule). > > http://www.diagonaalmethode.nl/ >

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gdv, Vol 62, Issue 14 message 2

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:03 +0100, M Tieleman wrote: > You know, that is an excellent idea, but unfortunately aside from the > brushes folder options, which I think are really needed, and pardon me > if this is going a little offtopic, but the brushes themselves are > still slow. Are you running c

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

On Nov 7, 2007 7:29 PM, Marcus Heese wrote: > Ok, but now more to the Western font problems. The so-called "tracking" > is implemented with the letter-spacing mechanism. This is incorrect. Kerning adjusts kern pairs, tracking adjusts space between words. Letter spacing in GIMP is a simple solutio

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gdv, Vol 62, Issue 14 message 2

On Nov 7, 2007 4:30 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > > You know, that is an excellent idea, but unfortunately aside from the > > brushes folder options, which I think are really needed, and pardon me > > if this is going a little offtopic, but the brushes themselves are > > still slow. > > Are you runni

Re: [Gimp-developer] text tool for 2.6 (or any later versions)

Alexandre Prokoudine schrieb: > On Nov 7, 2007 7:29 PM, Marcus Heese wrote: > >> Ok, but now more to the Western font problems. The so-called "tracking" >> is implemented with the letter-spacing mechanism. > > This is incorrect. Kerning adjusts kern pairs, Yup... that's right! > tracking adju

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

Sven Neumann wrote: > Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > >> I'm not sure this is the right time and place to argue, but from my >> experience using Paint.Net, which has this functionality, transparent >> palettes will absolutely useless and even annoying. > > I agree. Transparency will be distracting.

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: my summary.

Sven Nwumann wrote: > Nice to remind us of some issues but we are not going to put user wishes > on our roadmap. It is rather distracting to post user wishes to the > developer list. People here should be aware of the shortcomings and > without being a developer, your opinion is just one of many us

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: my summary.

Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:37 -0300, Guillermo Espertino wrote: > What I suggested are not "my wishes". I'm a professional designer and > GIMP is a tool for my work. The things that I wrote are issues that make > my work more difficult, while they shouldn't. We are way past this point. The p

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:56 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > I'm not sure this is the right time and place to argue, but from my > experience using Paint.Net, which has this functionality, transparent > palettes will absolutely useless and even annoying. I agree. Transparency will be dis

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement - Diagonal line crop guide

Martin Nordholts wrote: > Tim Jedlicka wrote: >> (repost - got lost somewhere the first time) >> >> I stumbled upon this link describing the use of the Diagonal (45 degree >> diagonal from each corner of an image) as the optimum crop guide ("better" >> than rule-of-thirds or golden rule). >> >> htt

Re: [Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

Sven Neumann wrote: >> well, obviously where one works with colors in the inspector that >> part is either never or on mouse-over not going to be transparent. > > Where we are back at the point where this is not likely going to be > ever > possible on all supported platforms using the toolkit th