Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 18:27 +0100, peter sikking wrote: first, Copy visible as new image could easily turn out too smart, but since the bottom Background layer prefers to be one without alpha, I can see something like: when ‘visible’ has effectively universal full opacity, then omit

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 21:48 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Speaking of which (and sorry for interrupting the thread), could somebody please fix Qmask message showing up in localized GIMP instead of Quick mask translation when you toggle quick mask with Shift+Q? Where does this

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 16:03 +0100, peter sikking wrote: no, squeezing these export options in the save dialog is not possible. I think there is a misunderstanding here. What people suggested is not to put the export options into the Save file-chooser but into the dialog that the save

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 11:15 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: Not all save plug-ins do this, but for those that do it seems to make a lot of choice to integrate the export questions there. That was supposed to read ... it seems to make a lot of sense Sven

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574418 now has a patch that implements this change. - blinking the channels/selections dialog: good - showing the channels/selections dialog as the top: rather not - making in the channels dialog case the new selection/channel the the

[Gimp-developer] The Gimp

2009-03-08 Thread sumith pandilwar
This is sumit . I am ineterested to apply for Gsoc 2009 - the gimp org.In the ideas of Gsoc 2008 there was a idea of implementing brushes that could be scaled up in a lossless way using svg files as brushes.I have the code of gimp 2.64 .So i need help to know what to start with. I will be very

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-08 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: what I first of all think is that the channels dialog needs to be split in two: a channels dialog and a stored-selections dialog. Having them in one dialog is admittedly somewhat confusing, but it is an established standard for pixel manipulation programs. this may look to

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 16:03 +0100, peter sikking wrote: no, squeezing these export options in the save dialog is not possible. I think there is a misunderstanding here. OK, I looked to much at that attached mock-up. What people suggested is not to put the export options

Re: [Gimp-developer] The Gimp

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, first of all, the application is called GNU Image Manipulation Program, or short GIMP, but not The Gimp. Please try to keep that in mind. On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 18:56 +0530, sumith pandilwar wrote: I am ineterested to apply for Gsoc 2009 - the gimp org.In the ideas of Gsoc 2008 there was a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 14:38 +0100, peter sikking wrote: this may look to you like we are only shuffling the furniture, but I cannot overstate how much this change is needed in the interest of usability: really. I am not exaggerating. a significant portion of our core user group

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread Alchemie foto\grafiche
On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 18:27 +0100, peter sikking wrote: first, Copy visible as new image could easily turn out too smart, but since the bottom Background layer prefers to be one without alpha, The first basic assumption is wrong...so maybe what build on that need reconsideration A

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread peter sikking
yahvuu wrote: what an inspiring post. peter sikking schrieb: I must also point out that this save + export change is also a change in attitude for GIMP. it clearly supports that our high-end users work in no-loss xcf all the time (if they want to store results) and that also means avoiding

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-08 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 14:38 +0100, peter sikking wrote: this may look to you like we are only shuffling the furniture, but I cannot overstate how much this change is needed in the interest of usability: really. I am not exaggerating. a significant portion of our core user

[Gimp-developer] text box

2009-03-08 Thread joff roepcke
Hi, I wasn't sure who to contact, so I joined this list in the hopes I could reach some developers. I'll try to keep this succinct. I recently switched to Ubuntu and Gimp with great excitement, finally free of Satan's Empire! But my happiness was short lived because it turns out my ability to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi. On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:15 +0100, peter sikking wrote: hmmm, there must be a misunderstanding here. Yes, obviously there is. But it is on your side. if you read carefully what I am proposing then you'll see that the only thing that is going to change about the channels dialog itself

Re: [Gimp-developer] text box

2009-03-08 Thread Owen
Hi, I wasn't sure who to contact, so I joined this list in the hopes I could reach some developers. I'll try to keep this succinct. I recently switched to Ubuntu and Gimp with great excitement, finally free of Satan's Empire! But my happiness was short lived because it turns out my ability

Re: [Gimp-developer] text box

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 11:30 -0700, joff roepcke wrote: I do simple graphic design- mostly ads for local businesses- usually with text. In order to play with a body of text, changing fonts and sizes, etc, you have to have a text box... hitting enter might work for one line, but formatting

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-08 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 17:15 +0100, peter sikking wrote: hmmm, there must be a misunderstanding here. Yes, obviously there is. But it is on your side. if you read carefully what I am proposing then you'll see that the only thing that is going to change about the channels

Re: [Gimp-developer] Behavior when saving a selection to channel

2009-03-08 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 21:05 +0100, peter sikking wrote: and I can't believe that proposing an alignment of GIMP UI with the realities of users expectations meets such a dogged resistance. There is no dogged resistance. I just had the impression that you believed that storing selections

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread gg
peter sikking wrote: Liam wrote: I had a careful look at this: My own workflow for www.fromoldbooks.org tends to be, 1. scan image with xsane plugin 2. crop if needed 3. save as 306-svens-ankles-raw.png 4. either quit after doing several of these, or continue with one... 5. use levels,

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread David Gowers
Hello, On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM, gg g...@catking.net wrote: there is a problem with this new attitude. Why does GIMP try to impose this you will work with xcf or die dictate? Because it has always been an XCF editor, not an anything else editor. Being able to modify images loaded from

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread gg
David Gowers wrote: Hello, On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:09 AM, gg g...@catking.net wrote: there is a problem with this new attitude. Why does GIMP try to impose this you will work with xcf or die dictate? Because it has always been an XCF editor, not an anything else editor. Being able to

Re: [Gimp-developer] save + export...

2009-03-08 Thread Alec Burgess
gg (g...@catking.net) wrote (in part) (on 2009-03-08 at 20:55): Sounds good. If exporting to original name with original options is readily accessible from a top level menu without having to retype the name that would be pretty good. I am concerned about whether this would require you