Re: [Gimp-developer] The name Gimp

2009-10-31 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
On 10/29/09, Laxminarayan Kamath kamat...@gmail.com wrote: What about FreeMI ? standing for Freedom to Manipulate Images? *if* the GTK people want to rename accordingly, even that would sound nice FreeTK Whether people are serious about this or not, I am going to revise my suggestion. FreeMI

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re branding ....

2009-10-31 Thread David Gowers
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:12 PM, vabijou2 vabi...@yahoo.com wrote: Christopher Howard-3 wrote: Its about having a product you aren't afraid to advertise. . As soon as I say GIMP, you can see the doubt on their faces, because they associate the word with being weak or lame. I agree

Re: [Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-31 Thread Martin Renold
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:29:48AM +0100, peter sikking wrote: the obvious way is Select-None. I often use Ctrl-a (Select-All). Doesn't get rid of the selection, but I usually can do what I wanted to do afterwards. bye, Martin ___ Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-31 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
peter sikking wrote: say I have made a selection in GIMP, done what needed to be done to the pixels in the selection and now want to get rid of the selection. the obvious way is Select-None. how many more ways are there? I usually click with a selection tool on any area outside the active

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name Gimp

2009-10-31 Thread Alexia Death
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Stephen Griffiths scg...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 13:06 +0200, Alexia Death wrote: Some English speakers discomfort at the name is getting a bit ridiculous IMHO. These words make me squirm. fag - a pile of sticks (secondary meaning, rarely used)

[Gimp-developer] Wish: adding Jitter and Brush Dynamics into Script-Fu

2009-10-31 Thread ginodo...@gmail.com
Hi. After glancing over the various commands listed inside the Script-Fu Procedure Browser, I noticed that it ain't possible to invoke Jitter and Brush Dynamics by using the Script-Fu language. It would be nice if these two useful features were implemented within Script-Fu in some way. By

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name Gimp

2009-10-31 Thread phanisvara das
i'm glad that gimp developers prefer to spend their time on improving the application rather than discussing and implementing 'improvements' to it's name. it's a darn good program. before i switched over to linux about one year ago i thought i couldn't live without photoshop. now i wouldn't

Re: [Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-31 Thread peter sikking
first, thanks for the help from those who replied (Liam: hilarious) Akira wrote: I usually click with a selection tool on any area outside the active selection. But this isn't always fast to do. For example another tool may be currently selected, or the selection method may be set to

Re: [Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-31 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:50 +0100, peter sikking wrote: what I am missing is a direct way to end the selection state. brainstorm - like a close box [x] on the top-right of the marching ants - or (another shortcut actually) press esc (may be taken in some states) Escape is taken

Re: [Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-31 Thread SHIRAKAWA Akira
peter sikking wrote: [cut] brainstorm - like a close box [x] on the top-right of the marching ants - or (another shortcut actually) press esc (may be taken in some states) /brainstorm I like the close box more (the esc button on my keyboard is too far away from my tablet, and I think

Re: [Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-31 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 31 October 2009, peter sikking wrote: brainstorm - like a close box [x] on the top-right of the marching ants I like the idea of adding such a selection context menu to the selection, it could have much more than just an [X], maybe stuff like what Alt+... currently does (move

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re branding ....

2009-10-31 Thread vabijou2
David Gowers wrote: 'jeeples'? lol. I'm sure the FSF people would like it :) How do we verb it though? jeepling? BWAHAHAHAHAHA. (more seriously, G+ is extremely close to the name of the gnu C++ compiler, G++). OK, as I have said I am not a programmer, so I was not aware of G++. I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re branding ....

2009-10-31 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Saturday 31 October 2009, vabijou2 wrote: Speaking again as a non-programmer, why would anything have to change internally? Many internal names have gimp in them, and future generations of programmers should not have to ask themselves what that stands for when nobody knows GIMP anymore.

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name Gimp

2009-10-31 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 10/31/09, Christopher Howard wrote: that. Every heard, though, of the original name of the Linux OS? Torvalds wanted it called Freaxs. Fortunately, though, the name Linux stuck, and even Linus admitted this was better. For reasons far beyond human imagination this is all but a valid

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wish: adding Jitter and Brush Dynamics into Script-Fu

2009-10-31 Thread Michael Natterer
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 11:40 +0100, ginodo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. After glancing over the various commands listed inside the Script-Fu Procedure Browser, I noticed that it ain't possible to invoke Jitter and Brush Dynamics by using the Script-Fu language. It would be nice if these two

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name Gimp

2009-10-31 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 10/31/2009 09:26 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: The question you really have to ask is: will actual GIMP developers agree to work on rebranded GIMP? Because, you see, there are just 3,7 of them. And only Martin (correct me if I'm wrong) once said he wouldn't mind having GIMP rebranded. I