Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-29 Thread saulgoode
Quoting peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net: so now we need a design problem. the course is short but intense, 3 days with me full-time to work up a solutions model and then they take some days to finish their presentation. so now huge redesign problems, more something like a compact tool.

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-29 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
Hello all who put down good student UI projects. Clearly, Peter can't have his students do them all. Given this, would you consider putting them up at http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/SummerOfCode2009ideas ? There are five days left to the application process, so some student may bite, and then it

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-29 Thread Rob Antonishen
Why limit it to path stroking? It might be more flexible to create a stroke style editor where you could visually adjust those attributes including tapers, brush spacing, jitter, gradient mapping, and ultimately new features like rotation, opacity and scaling (which tapering ultimately is),

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-29 Thread Akkana Peck
Rob Antonishen writes: Why limit it to path stroking? It might be more flexible to create a stroke style editor where you could visually adjust those attributes including tapers, brush spacing, jitter, gradient mapping, and ultimately new features like rotation, opacity and scaling (which

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-28 Thread Tobias Jakobs
Hi Peter! On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 21:38, peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net wrote: ... please post your suggestions what we could do. What about a concept for an metadata viewer/editor. Thats a thing, that's completely missing in GIMP. It doesn't sound very sexy to design an UI for that problem,

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:32 +0100, Tobias Jakobs wrote: P.S. Isn't a metadata viewer/editor a nice GSOC project idea? There is a metadata viewer/editor plug-in in the GIMP source tree for a long time already. Someone just needs to finish this project as it appears that Raphael is not going

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-26 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:12 AM, yahvuu wrote: levels, curves - could support the user's intention more directly:                   - mark places in the image, which should be brighter/darker,                     or have more/less contrast or modified colors                   - the

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-26 Thread David Gowers
gradation map - nearly the same: map image points to positions in the gradient Yahvuu, you probably need to clarify: how is this different from Colors-Map-Gradient Map? On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:12

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-26 Thread Irena Damsky
Peter Hi, I think you should post this question to the GIMP-USERS list. I find it extremely useful to ask the users themselves what do they want to be a part of a package they are using... Irena On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:38 PM, peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net wrote: hi all, at the end of

Re: [Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-26 Thread yahvuu
hi, David Gowers schrieb: gradation map - nearly the same: map image points to positions in the gradient Yahvuu, you probably need to clarify: how is this different from Colors-Map-Gradient Map? sorry for the misspelling. Exactly Colors-Map-Gradient Map is what i meant. Here again, a

[Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-25 Thread peter sikking
hi all, at the end of may I am again teaching an interaction design course at the FH Voralrberg (university of applied sciences). here is the plan: the course is in the form of a design project, and the students work in small teams on a UI concept for GIMP. all (4) teams work on the same design

[Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-25 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
Peter: Here is a suggestion UI project for training purpose: Right now, in GEGL, you have access to the whole 2-parameter family of cubic splines for resampling, as well as bilinear. Pick three representatives, say Catmull-Rom (lots of halo), smoothing B-Splines (lots of blur) and bilinear

[Gimp-developer] a good student UI project...

2009-03-25 Thread Nicolas Robidoux
Peter: Of course, you could also use the interface to choose between three cubic methods, which makes a lot of sense within GEGL (the jaggy one would be lagrangian bicubic). Nicolas Robidoux Universite Laurentienne ___ Gimp-developer mailing list