Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
Does it keep the entire menu inside the screen if the "layers" dialog is at the right edge of the screen ? -- Laxminarayan Kamath Ammembal (+91) 9945036093 ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 08:01 +, Laxminarayan Kamath wrote: > Does it keep the entire menu inside the screen if the "layers" dialog > is at the right edge of the screen ? Of course. If it wouldn't, that would be a bug in GTK+. Sven ___ Gimp-de

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 21:47 -0800, Bill Skaggs wrote: > One of the minor annoyances of using Gimp is that the Layer Mode > menu (and paint mode menu, etc) is unpleasantly long -- for me, it > nearly extends from the top to the bottom of the screen. It > would actually be very easy to change t

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-15 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Unfortunately now that I have had time to think a bit harder, I understand that there is a fundamental difference in how my initial effort to implement a warp tool works compared to how the IWarp filter does. Basically, when using the IWarp filter, and manipulating the preview in its dialog, IWarp

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-15 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >snip< > Hopefully this is a question with an obvious answer, and there is some > tool that already works like this... > > Or is it really so that a warp tool, and the "filter brush" kinds of > tools that Ankh asks for

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Bill Skaggs wrote: > One of the minor annoyances of using Gimp is that the Layer Mode > menu (and paint mode menu, etc) is unpleasantly long -- for me, it > nearly extends from the top to the bottom of the screen. It very much depends on particular GTK+ theme in

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Skaggs
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately now that I have had time to think a bit harder, I > understand that there is a fundamental difference in how my > initial effort to implement a warp tool works compared to how > the IWarp filter does. Do y

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-15 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> Do you really need to do it exactly the way the filter does it? > From your description, I don't really understand why your > current approach is less valid, or even why it will produce a > significantly different result. It does produce a significantly different result. In my current code,

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread peter sikking
Bill wrote: > It seems to me > that the separators are not that important, because the categories > are pretty artificial in the first place, and were really imposed > mostly > to give the very long list some structure, as far as I can see. > But this > is something that you should consider.

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Nemes Ioan Sorin
agree with Peter, (part of my job is to improve user interaction && UI usability) separators are good, even better are spacers (like in Firetox and Thunderbird [fluid spacers]) also a line OR a background surrounding a group of buttons are good for focusing to a 'grouped set of functions' ...ins

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread jEsuSdA 8)
Bill Skaggs wrote: > One of the minor annoyances of using Gimp is that the Layer Mode > menu (and paint mode menu, etc) is unpleasantly long -- for me, it > nearly extends from the top to the bottom of the screen. It > would actually be very easy to change the code so that these menus > are laid o

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Skaggs
Well, it's clear that the idea is not generating a great deal of enthusiasm. Before dropping it, though, I'd like to take one more shot at clarifying the problem -- I'm attaching a screenshot showing a typical incarnation of the Paint Mode menu, using the Default Gimp theme and Ubuntu's default Hu

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
Why not add it as a preference.. By default, keep it one column. If people find it annying, they can choose to have two columns in "preferences" dialog. -- Laxminarayan Kamath Ammembal (+91) 9945036093 ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@list

[Gimp-developer] Filter- Brush (was: i warp tool)

2008-02-15 Thread Alchemie foto\grafiche
"Bill Skaggs wrote >I would be interested in getting opinions on some of the open >questions about how such a tool should work. That tool was at top of my wish list and i had long discussion about a couple of year ago I' happy to see that maybe now is doable, but some of the objections i had

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:13 -0800, Bill Skaggs wrote: > Well, it's clear that the idea is not generating a great deal > of enthusiasm. [... screenshot...] > I don't think I have to persuade anybody that this is less than > ideal from a usability point of view. The question is, can we do > anythi

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Akkana Peck
Liam R E Quin writes: > Seems to me that probably most people will use at most a couple of the > layer modes in normal use, so maybe putting the top 7 on the menu and > having a "more modes" submenu is a possibility. Eek, please no! Often the best way to use layer modes is to go down the list one