Re: [Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

2008-02-18 Thread Tobias Jakobs
On Feb 18, 2008 8:27 AM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 05:13 -0200, Guillermo Espertino wrote: > > > Anyway, I'd would like to know why common tasks wouldn't fit there > > Yeah, I would also like to know that. > I thin peter explained i in one of the first

Re: [Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

2008-02-18 Thread peter sikking
I only have time to write a quick note, so here we go: Yes, focus on the 'yelling kid' to imagine what kind of interaction avoid. Our core users are people who know what they are doing. They do not need 'help'. GIMP has to avoid trying to be the boy scout helping the grandma across the busy stree

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Skaggs
On Feb 17, 2008 5:07 PM, Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps for the rotation tool it doesn't mean much, but at least for > the perspective tool it would be nice if one could undo the > incremental changes one does to the control points. Probably this > wouldn't be hard to implement

[Gimp-developer] scripting problems

2008-02-18 Thread Al Niessner
I have found posts related to this error in the forum, but nothing really matches. I have also googled for a solution and found none. The difficulty that I am having starts with this really simple python script in a file called gimpTest.py: from gimpfu import * print "I am running the script" gi

Re: [Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

2008-02-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:21 +0100, Tobias Jakobs wrote: > You can see the problem very good, if you start Krita. Krita has such > a yelling start dialog. But I'm not sure if not having common tasks in > the start window is the solution or if we just have to design it more > carefully than Kri

Re: [Gimp-developer] no image open spec...

2008-02-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:54 +0100, peter sikking wrote: > Our core users are people who know what they are doing. > They do not need 'help'. Yes, they do. This dialog is the first thing people see when starting GIMP. And a large fraction of our users are beginners. So we have a good chance h

Re: [Gimp-developer] scripting problems

2008-02-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:02 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > I don't think using "--batch -" works with python-fu-eval. It might make > sense to add this as a special case just like it is being done for > script-fu-eval now. Please ignore what I said. python-fu-eval does special-case the "-" com

Re: [Gimp-developer] scripting problems

2008-02-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:05 -0800, Al Niessner wrote: > I have found posts related to this error in the forum, but nothing > really matches. I have also googled for a solution and found none. > > The difficulty that I am having starts with this really simple python > script in a file called g

Re: [Gimp-developer] scripting problems

2008-02-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:05 -0800, Al Niessner wrote: > I expect the the line "I am running the script" to print and then GIMP > to exit -- see http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html for details on > gimp.quit(). The documentation you are looking at is hopelessly outdated. gimp.quit() ex

Re: [Gimp-developer] scripting problems

2008-02-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:26 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > > I expect the the line "I am running the script" to print and then GIMP > > to exit -- see http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html for details on > > gimp.quit(). > > The documentation you are looking at is hopelessly outdated. gim

Re: [Gimp-developer] scripting problems

2008-02-18 Thread Al Niessner
Sorry about getting twice Sven, but I should keep it on the list for the next person searching the archives. Any suggestions or guesses on how to make the GIMP application exit? On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 21:26 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:05 -0800, Al Niessner wrote

Re: [Gimp-developer] scripting problems

2008-02-18 Thread Sven Neumann
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:27 -0800, Al Niessner wrote: > Personally, pdb.gimp_quit(0) makes just as much sense as gimp.exit() as > long as it noted somewhere. All PDB procedures are documented in the Procedure Browser that you can reach from the Xtns menu in the toolbox. Sven

Re: [Gimp-developer] scripting problems

2008-02-18 Thread Al Niessner
Dang! I tried pdb.gimp-quit() like in script-fu and it, of course, did not work. I then browsed http://developer.gimp.org/api/2.0/index.html looking for a quit or some type of control over gimp and did not see anything. It works. Thanks. Personally, pdb.gimp_quit(0) makes just as much sense as g

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

2008-02-18 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 10:05 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: > > There are very good reasons why tear-off menus are deprecated. They > > don't solve usability issues but introduce them. > > They're deprecated? It figures that something so useful would be. Well, perhaps not deprecated in the "don't