[Gimp-developer] Intro and a CVS question

2006-11-23 Thread Chris Mohler
Hi - My name is Chris Mohler. I'm not a hard-core programmer, but have some experience with C and Python. I've recently set about to assembling a prepress environment with OSS tools. Of course GIMP is a cornerstone of the project, so I'd like to become more involved with GIMP development

Re: [Gimp-developer] Intro and a CVS question

2006-11-23 Thread Chris Mohler
If no specific branch is mentioned, current CVS usually means the HEAD branch. This is what you get if you just do a cvs checkout without specifying a revision or branch (i.e., no option like -r gimp-N-N). -Raphaël OK - thanks! Chris ___

[Gimp-developer] Spot channels in TIFF files.

2006-11-24 Thread Chris Mohler
Hi, I thought I'd give a shot at adding spot colors to the GIMP TIFF implementation. If I understand, I need to look at /gimp/plug-ins/common/tiff.c and add some of the functionality found in /gimp/app/xcf/(?) (specifically, the portion that assigns the channel color and opacity), and have

Re: [Gimp-developer] Fwd: [Gimp-user] Color selectors, which one do you use?

2006-12-06 Thread Chris Mohler
Actually, during the user observations we found out that print-oriented professionals have learned to thing in CYMK. How I wish I could remove that part of my brain that translates RGB to CMYK. Back on topic - I use the default picker. I would use the triangle were it snappier. The CMYK

Re: [Gimp-developer] Fonts Dialog

2006-12-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On 12/30/06, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 15:29 +0100, iwkse wrote: Such feature is useful when the user has a really high number of fonts cause loading all them slow down whole gimp at the start. Why not just fix the slow startup instead? If your copy

Re: [Gimp-developer] Fonts Dialog

2006-12-30 Thread Chris Mohler
You don't really need to restart GIMP. Its enough to rescan and it's done. Just click on open font selection dialogue and you'll find rescan. Salvatore Awesome! Now I feel like an ass for requesting a feature that exists... Chris ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Mohler
how should tool interaction work with this? Would you want to see the mouse cursor in the magnified view? Should you able to interact in it or is it just a view? IMO, there should be a fixed crosshair or something in the center of the zoom window that corresponds to the cursor. As the tool

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Mohler
Here is the feature request (as I see it): distill away. Magnifier: (Needs a better name - spy glass, super loupe?) The maginfier provides the ability to see an up close view of the area immediately surrounding the cursor, in a manner that does

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On 3/4/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 12:53 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: [1] This seems like the best existing dialog to place this. It doesn't seem to warrant it's own dialog, unless we were to extend the funtionality into a new info dialog similar

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Mohler
First off, I want to apologize - it's not my intention to be combative, and I can be a total ass sometimes. Secondly, I wonder if we should make two feature requests: the first for a dockable magnifier with options, and the second for a key-triggered pop-up version of the same magnifier. Should

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-19 Thread Chris Mohler
On 3/4/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But yes, the most obvious and by far the easiest solution is to add a tracking view that users can add to their docks similar to the Navigation dialog. I've filled out a feature request based on this approach. I've also taken initial steps to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-03-20 Thread Chris Mohler
On 3/19/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We aren't using cairo yet. But I don't see what you would want to use gdk_draw_drawable() for. OK - I have more to learn! app/dialogs/dialogs.c, IIRC Thanks. Chris ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

[Gimp-developer] CMYK palette info from Photoshop

2007-03-31 Thread Chris Mohler
Hi, I'm working on bug #316618: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316618 I was cruising along until I found that Photoshop palettes have many CMYK data. What's the best method of converting these colors to RGB and getting reasonably close? I tried the functions here:

Re: [Gimp-developer] CMYK palette info from Photoshop

2007-03-31 Thread Chris Mohler
On 3/31/07, Hal V. Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might consider using a color transform using ICC profiles. For example you could use sRGB as your generic destination color space and perhaps a SWAP profile for the CMYK side. Once you have selected your two profiles doing the conversion

Re: [Gimp-developer] CMYK palette info from Photoshop

2007-04-01 Thread Chris Mohler
Thanks all - I should be able to figure something out from your suggestions. Chris ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] CMYK palette info from Photoshop

2007-04-10 Thread Chris Mohler
On 4/10/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The lcms plug-in is a good example as it already uses the color profiles you need. That is the profiles configured in the Color Management section in the prefs. The problem that we are facing here though is that the bug you are looking at is

Re: [Gimp-developer] Three point layer distortion mapping feature?

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On 5/2/07, Mark Lowry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What are everyone's thoughts on this? Is it worth initiating an enhancement request in Bugzilla? IIRC, hugin[1] can align stacks of images. Chris 1 - http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-09 Thread Chris Mohler
At the risk of lengthening this thread... :) I agree with Peter - saving in a lossy format is a last-step operation in a good workflow. I respect the case of simple tweak and saving, but in the long run, all users should never being able to choose save and then lose data. I expect the Save

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor.

2007-07-10 Thread Chris Mohler
On 7/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:08:45 +0200, Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I expect the Save command to retain *all* data: not just some. If you expect that when using jpeg you are wrong and need to see the first use warning that has

Re: [Gimp-developer] jpeg quality factor

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Mohler
Sorry - I always forget to Reply-All to this list... On 7/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] GIMP IS A TOOL, NOT A TUTORIAL. Take an analogy: A builder needs to nail a piece of wood as a guide but all the nails he has to hand are too big. To get round the problem he

Re: [Gimp-developer] discussing the roadmap for 2.6

2007-10-24 Thread Chris Mohler
On 10/24/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] IMO it would be best if people proposed features here so that they can be discussed on the list. We should then collect these proposals somewhere and try to decide on milestones for them later. It would probably help if we try to be

Re: [Gimp-developer] a first step towards Cairo drawing

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On 10/27/07, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Currently we are drawing the rectangle using XOR. When we switch to Cairo this should probably change. But I am not entirely sure how to best draw a nice-looking outline that is visible on all images. Perhaps some of the artists out

[Gimp-developer] Selection moving - is this a bug?

2007-11-02 Thread Chris Mohler
Not sure if this is a bug or not. Using 2.4.1 on ubuntu 7.10. 1. Create a new image 2. paint a couple of areas (just for reference) 3. select a painted area 4. float the selection 5. move it around 6. shift-T and scale it 7. try to move it again At step 7 I expect to be able to move the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection moving - is this a bug?

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Nov 3, 2007 1:19 AM, Martin Nordholts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine fore me. Are you sure you are not just using weird Move Tool Options? If not, please provide more details, like size of selection before and after scaling and so on. Odd - after a few days, I can't reproduce it

Re: [Gimp-developer] finalizing the task list

2007-11-20 Thread Chris Mohler
Does this sound reasonable? Is there anything I missed? Any volunteers to work on this list? Sounds reasonable to me. Since I never get around to contributing anything, I took a few minutes to copy-paste some items from the mailing list that came up this past month. It needs work - I haven't

Re: [Gimp-developer] finalizing the task list

2007-11-21 Thread Chris Mohler
On Nov 20, 2007 7:26 PM, Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this sound reasonable? Is there anything I missed? Any volunteers to work on this list? Formatted it a bit better: http://cr33dog.fedorapeople.org/misc/gimp_task_list_02.html http://cr33dog.fedorapeople.org/misc

Re: [Gimp-developer] finalizing the task list

2007-11-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Nov 22, 2007 1:03 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 18:32 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 7:26 PM, Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this sound reasonable? Is there anything I missed? Any volunteers to work on this list

Re: [Gimp-developer] finalizing the task list

2007-11-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Nov 22, 2007 1:03 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a nice start, but I think we need a lot more information in the short description. So one row per task is certainly not going to be sufficient. But it's probably a good idea to finalize the structure and layout before we go

Re: [Gimp-developer] finalizing the task list

2007-11-26 Thread Chris Mohler
On Nov 26, 2007 1:58 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 18:52 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: On Nov 22, 2007 1:03 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a nice start, but I think we need a lot more information in the short description. So one row

Re: [Gimp-developer] improving QMask mode

2007-11-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On Nov 30, 2007 6:15 AM, David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that QMask mode could be made quicker to use, by providing an option to: a) Reset the FG/BG colors to black and white upon entering qmask mode and b) Push the context before entering qmask mode, and pop it when exiting

Re: [Gimp-developer] tagged resources such as brushes, gradients, etc

2008-01-18 Thread Chris Mohler
On Jan 18, 2008 5:03 AM, Tobias Jakobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 8:55 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current favorite approach is to put the tags into files in the ~/.gimp-2.x directory, one file per resource type. So there would be a brushrc, gradientrc,

Re: [Gimp-developer] ‘no image’ window: prog ress...

2008-03-16 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:31 AM, peter sikking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GIMPsters, some good news on this front, I have spent a couple of man-days rethinking and re-specifying the 'no image' window situation. It is now roughly complete:

Re: [Gimp-developer] functions in wacom

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Dani Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to get some features of the wacom like coordinates X and Y, pressure of pencil, etc in each instant of time. Does Gimp save this information in any file? Are there functions to obtain it? Have you looked

Re: [Gimp-developer] More intelligent user protection from information loss

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Alexia Death [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Exactly... Witch has bitten me in the ass a few times... That evil witch has bitten me a few times as well - even with the pentagram drawn under my workstation ;) Chris ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] international chars in Gimp

2008-06-27 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Andrei Simion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does Gimp support German characters. I work on Mac and I want to add text on an image. I cannot copy/paste the character Ü because Gimp uses its own clipboard, so I have to somehow type it in. What I can do? On a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Script proposed for inclusion in gimp 2.6

2008-08-05 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion, a better solution to the copy visible to new layer functionality would be to add an option to Merge Visible Layers which would retain the original visible layers. This approach would seem more intuitive and would not

Re: [Gimp-developer] Script proposed for inclusion in gimp 2.6

2008-08-05 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:10 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: It would help a lot if you guys would not assume that everyone knows all Photoshop features. If you are missing a particular feature, then please take the time

Re: [Gimp-developer] newb questions re python-fu

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:29 AM, paul taney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, A coupla questions from the newb... I am trying to write my first python-fu plug-in and I cannot get it to install. Heres how I am pushing it to the plugins dir: cp VanDerWalt.py

Re: [Gimp-developer] newb questions re python-fu

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:37 PM, paul taney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks very much, Chris. I am using your file now and made a coupla repairs, afaict. But it still doesnt install. Now I may know why, as running it straight up gives No module named gimpfu! AFAIK, you can't run gimp-fu

Re: [Gimp-developer] newb questions re python-fu

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:41 PM, paul taney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks very much, Chris. I am using your file now and made a coupla repairs, afaict. But it still doesnt install. Now I may know why, as running it straight up gives No module named gimpfu! AFAIK, you can't run

Re: [Gimp-developer] Python back-up files

2008-09-27 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Samuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another question from me: When I write a plugin, my text editor (kwrite or kate) creates a backup file named plugin.py~. When I start now the plugin in GIMP, it is executing the backup instead the original. Hi, I think you

[Gimp-developer] Debug level

2008-10-07 Thread Chris Mohler
Sorry if this is a dumb question - I did search the gimp-dev site but did not see an answer. I see many statements like this in the source: IFDBG(3) g_debug (Compression mode: %d, comp_mode); I built GIMP (2.6) with --enable-debug=yes, and then set G_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG to 3. Running GIMP from

Re: [Gimp-developer] Debug level

2008-10-07 Thread Chris Mohler
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Martin Nordholts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Mohler wrote: Sorry if this is a dumb question - I did search the gimp-dev site but did not see an answer. I see many statements like this in the source: IFDBG(3) g_debug (Compression mode: %d, comp_mode); I

[Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - home folder

2008-10-09 Thread Chris Mohler
Hi list, I've been mucking around with a GIMP plugin a la python, and I have a question: Is there a method to discover the GIMP version and/or ~/.gimp folder that works across platform (from python)? Thanks, Chris ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - home folder

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I've been mucking around with a GIMP plugin a la python, and I have a question: Is there a method to discover the GIMP version and/or ~/.gimp folder that works across platform (from python

Re: [Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - home folder

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:11 AM, paul taney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a method to discover the GIMP version and/or ~/.gimp folder that works across platform (from python)? gimp.directory On a Mac running gimp2.4.5 print gimp.directory = %s % gimp.directory prints

Re: [Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - home folder

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Mohler
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Re: [Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - home folder

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:57 AM, paul taney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chris Mohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - home folder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: gimp Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - home folder

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:56 PM, paul taney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of getting a GUI file chooser, the main plug-in function is executed, and the the name of the currently selected palette is passed instead of this_file Attaching to another menu (Toolbox/Xtns/, for example)

Re: [Gimp-developer] A question about python gimpfu - home folder

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:31 PM, paul taney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe a pallette or something is passed by default and you have to have a placeholder for it -- as with (image, drawable) when it lives at Image. def test_attach(p, this_file): print Test type(p): + type(p)

Re: [Gimp-developer] new feature request - gimp

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Jim Michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] sorry, my primary email is html (yahoo) email. yahoo mail has no options to send as text (no yahoo there). From: http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtips/qt/et_plain_text.htm To compose a text-only message in Yahoo!

[Gimp-developer] Guides in templates

2008-12-27 Thread Chris Mohler
Hi gimp-dev list, With a recent SVN I created a new image, added guides, and saved it as a template. However when I create a new image and select the template, the guides are no longer there. Is this intended behavior? I can't think of any reason not to keep the guides, but thought I'd ask...

Re: [Gimp-developer] Guides in templates

2008-12-28 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: Hi, On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 19:25 +, Chris Mohler wrote: With a recent SVN I created a new image, added guides, and saved it as a template. However when I create a new image and select the template, the guides

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp's name

2009-01-21 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Viktor Kojouharov vkojouha...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here or anything like that. I'm just wondering whether during the great discussions of old about changing the name of the program, the name 'Wilber' was considered? Wilber sounds

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp on a Commercial CD-Rom ?

2009-02-10 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Jackson Tam j...@sditech.com wrote: Hi Tobias, Yep, we are planning on making a donation J. Thanks for the reply and I hope you could help me with a few more questions. It would be greatly appreciated. You might find this page (and the entire site,

[Gimp-developer] Possible feature for Clone Tool?

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Mohler
Hi, I just finished a bunch of cloning (dates inserted into digital pics) and thought of something: When cloning, would it be possible to display the source pixels inside of the clone tool's brush outline? I think that would be quite useful for dealing with cloning when straight edges are

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

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Mohler
I know this thread is already getting long, but I'd prefer to see Export behave similar to: 1. Create a new, multilayer XCF 2. File-Export 3. Name it something.png, click Next 4. Set options, click Save At no point do I want to be nagged about layers, masks, or anything else. If there were a

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

2009-03-11 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Rob Antonishen rob.antonis...@gmail.com wrote: Sven mentioned other uses, like spot colour and halftoning.  I can't find any references on using gimp channels for spot colour, in fact google only finds me claims that a weakness of gimp is that it does NOT

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: [...] I don't understand why that is needed. What is our goal here? To create PDF files as small as possible? IMO the goal for PDF export should be to improve support for professional printing. File size is not important for

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Mohler
2009/3/22 peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net: Sven wrote: bummer about the non-standard, but would industrial-strength TIFF in and export not be significantly more in line with our product vision than industrial-strength pdf in and export? Depends on what gets used nowadays. If professionals

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 20:43 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: The product vision states that GIMP is a high-end photo manipulation application and that certainly includes support for editing images in the CMYK color space.

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:44 PM, peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net wrote: Mix master tape (in rgb) and then cut the lp (in cmyk). I can express any CMYK color in RGB - but not the other way around. Therefore, I master all of my print jobs in CMYK, and if I cut something like a preview for a

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net wrote: Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: Which means in fact that the team does not wish to meet *real* prepress users needs on product vision level. I would like to have this answered answer first: why can't they do it with

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP PDF export plugin

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, yahvuu yah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Chris Mohler schrieb: I can express any CMYK color in RGB - but not the other way around. now i'm confused :) Is CMYK-RGB-CMYK roundtrip safe? Not really. What I was trying to say is that I send RGB proof images to my

Re: [Gimp-developer] New features that should be nice

2009-03-29 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Eduardo Barijan eduwb.horizo...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/29, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com: Save early, save often - and if in doubt, save a copy ;)  Personally, I would turn off the auto-save feature if it was an option: I don't want to automatically save

Re: [Gimp-developer] New features that should be nice

2009-03-29 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Eduardo Barijan eduwb.horizo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Gimp coders! I was thinking about 2 new features that would help a lot. 1 - the auto-save job. When you`re working and gimp crashes, your work is lost =x. If not a auto-save, a .bak file that you can save

[Gimp-developer] Pop-up message

2009-04-01 Thread Chris Mohler
Hello list, I've written a python plug-in that uses this function: pdb.gimp_message($message) One user in particular is having problems with it, and someone has advised me that You just can't expect gimp_message to raise a popup message window. The error console dockable dialog is there to get

Re: [Gimp-developer] Procedural call to undo?

2009-05-11 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:31 PM, gg g...@catking.net wrote: peter sikking wrote: David Hodson wrote: That's true, but how does that make undo different from many other functions? undo involves user having a change of heart. a script cannot have a change of heart. No but it can have a

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:37 AM, peter sikkingpe...@mmiworks.net wrote: guys, the second part of my lgm talk is blogged now: http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2009/06/gimp-squaring-cmyk-circle.html I like this approach. I have a few questions: Will each plate have a density or

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-19 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:41 PM, peter sikkingpe...@mmiworks.net wrote: Chris Mohler wrote: http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2009/06/gimp-squaring-cmyk-circle.html I like this approach. I have a few questions: Will each plate have a density or opacity attribute?  (some inks

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, yahvuuyah...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Chris Mohler schrieb: Imagine I'm designing a black t-shirt with say five spot colors, including white. [..] Whew ;) Whew, too ;) Makes me wonder if it has to be that hard or if it points to some missing software

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-20 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM, yahvuuyah...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Chris Mohler schrieb: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM, yahvuuyah...@gmail.com wrote: i assume the temporary layers are mostly grayscale? Usually RGB layers, or grayscale channels. sorry, imprecise question. I mean

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, peter sikkingpe...@mmiworks.net wrote: Imagine I'm designing a black t-shirt with say five spot colors, including white.  After completing the artistic design, I enable the 'projection screen'.  This theoretically would result in my five plates.  However,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-05 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Dirk Sohlergimp-developer...@kamerastars.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there! I filed a “bug” with an enhancement request to the GIMP Bugzilla, but Martin Nordholts told me, to send a mail to the GIMP developers mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-05 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Dirk Sohlergimp-developer...@kamerastars.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there! I filed a “bug” with an enhancement request to the GIMP Bugzilla, but Martin Nordholts told me, to send a mail to the GIMP developers mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Dirk Sohlergimp-developer...@kamerastars.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Mohler schrieb: | What the heck - I added it as a (very) simple plug-in: | http://registry.gimp.org/node/17235 I can’t find the menu option „Filters

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Alec Burgessbura...@gmail.com wrote: Works on Windows 2.6.6 but message is displayed in Error console (which I have as one of panels in main dock) not on the status bar. Is this somehow configurable? Note: IMO this is a feature not a bug since it allows user

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Rob Antonishenrob.antonis...@gmail.com wrote: Bug?: The entry Filters - Measurement - Path is always enabled whether or not any path exists (expected) but in Filters-Repeat Path,  Filters-Reshow Path and Filters-Recently Used-Path it always shows as Disabled

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Mohler
Bar or Error Console.), author=(Chris Mohler), copyright=(Chris Mohler), date=(2009), label=(Active Path), imagetypes=(*), params=[ (PF_IMAGE, img, Image, None), (PF_DRAWABLE, drw, Drawable, None) ], results=[], function=(measure_path

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Alec Burgessbura...@gmail.com wrote: Whether paths are Active or not does not appear to change results - it still shows the measurement. I've updated the plug-in at the registry (http://registry.gimp.org/node/17235). If in doubt which is which, I added 'Version

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Sven Neumanns...@gimp.org wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:58 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: I had a little trouble finding docs on the named parameters (I ended up using help(gimpfu.register) in the console).  I've pasted the new register() below - one thing

Re: [Gimp-developer] Improvement for measurement tool

2009-07-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sven Neumanns...@gimp.org wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:32 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: When using the old, unnamed register() parameters, if you leave 'params' empty, the main plug-in function still receives two parameters - the current image

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug #164774

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:09 PM, peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net wrote: Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 22:21 +0200, peter sikking wrote: Michael J. Hammel wrote: Isn't this already possible with Image-Guides-{New Guide,New Guide (by Percent)}?  What would this decoupling

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug #164774

2009-09-14 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Michael J. Hammel mjham...@graphics-muse.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:50 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote: I think it's reasonable to pair rulers and guides, and would certainly want to keep the ability to drag a guide from a ruler. However, if there were

[Gimp-developer] Compiling from git on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-10-03 Thread Chris Mohler
Hi, Not sure how best to proceed - GIMP is requiring libgtk 2.16.6 to proceed, and Ubuntu 9.04 is shipping 2.16.1. Any ideas? Also - the INSTALL file probably needs an update: 4. You need to have installed GTK+ version 2.16.1 or newer Chris ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Compiling from git on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-10-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how best to proceed - GIMP is requiring libgtk 2.16.6 to proceed, and Ubuntu 9.04 is shipping 2.16.1. Any ideas? Never mind :) Compiling 2.16.6 now, sticking in /opt... Chris

Re: [Gimp-developer] Compiling from git on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-10-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Alexia Death alexiade...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure how best to proceed - GIMP is requiring libgtk 2.16.6 to proceed

[Gimp-developer] Hacking on the mail plugin

2009-10-03 Thread Chris Mohler
. From 099cf07983d1dbc82510952b2a2bce798b7ef62f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 21:10:35 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update mail plugin to use xdg-email This is a work-in-progress patch to use xdg-email instead of sendmail. There are known problems

Re: [Gimp-developer] Hacking on the mail plugin

2009-10-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: This should probably read  gchar *xdgargs[4]; (sorry forgot to reply-all) Oops (facepalm). Thanks. So, I've written a replacement plug-in that works pretty well. However, the only filetype supported is still .XCF. Looking

Re: [Gimp-developer] Hacking on the mail plugin

2009-10-04 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Chris Mohler cr33...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at the new api docs, it seems possible to raise a GimpDialog that contains something like a toggle for Native XCF or Export and also the new 'gimp_export_dialog_new' widget.  Does this sound reasonable? Also

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP T-shirts in our online store

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Omari Stephens x...@csail.mit.edu wrote: Guillermo Espertino wrote: Ismael: I don't know the official position about this, but I think that the Wilber image you used looks pretty dated. I'd use the Tango version or the icon for Mac that Jimmac designed. They

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name Gimp

2009-10-28 Thread Chris Mohler
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, John B johnb...@gmail.com wrote: IMO this would be a valid reason for a name change. Has that ever been considered? Search the archives - this has been discussed to death... and there will be no name change. Chris

Re: [Gimp-developer] The name Gimp

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Scott drmem...@3rivers.net wrote: Way OT, but speaking of getting in trouble with acronyms, I remember years ago at law school when someone founded a Christian Legal Association there, and they would post bulletins on the walls. Somebody (hmmm, wonder who?...)

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

2009-10-30 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:37 PM, David Gowers 00a...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:59 AM, peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net wrote: guys, would like to tap the wisdom of this crowd here. say I have made a selection in GIMP, done what needed to be done to the pixels in the

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

2009-11-02 Thread Chris Mohler
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: I wonder why you need both hands on the tablet. The pros that I have seen working with GIMP always had one hand on the keyboard and the other hand holding the tablet pen. I don't want to offend you in any way, I just would

Re: [Gimp-developer] Trying to Make a Plug-In

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Callie for...@gimpusers.com wrote: My first question would be, what language should I be using and how do I set it up so that it will work. I'd recommend python, as it is pretty easy to pick up even for the non-programmer. IIRC the OSX version of GIMP includes

Re: [Gimp-developer] Color space support

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Jason Simanek jsima...@gmail.com wrote: The trouble that most contemporary designers have when it comes to creating professional graphics with the Gimp (and Inkscape, Scribus, etc.) is due to their lack of knowledge. (Also anecdotal) - personally, the trouble I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Could new version of gimp building swf?

2010-06-01 Thread Chris Mohler
2010/6/1 Hades ppm10...@163.com: In linux env,is there any good swf builder project ? There's also the flex SDK - but there is no GUI: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Download+Flex+4 It is quite capable if you are good with actionscript. CHris

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Jason Simanek jsima...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like you are saying it should be pasted to the exact location where it was copied from. I agree. The pasted pixels should end up exactly where I copied them from. From my own (user) perspective, I wholeheartedly

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-03 Thread Chris Mohler
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: I bound this to ctrl-v and played for a while and it feels pretty intuitive.  One feature is that if you make a selection and go ctrl-x, ctrl-v it pastes the cut out bit exactly where it was cut out from, which makes sense.

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