Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:45 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: You might want to look at the nip2 graphics editor, which works this way. I find nip2 hard to use despite (or maybe because of?) the graphical interface, though. Thanks for the pointer. But we already decided that we don't want to

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 18:06 +, William Skaggs wrote: * Construct an optional MDI version of the gui. That is definitely not a goal. We are not willing nor able to maintain optional user interfaces. The UI has to evolve and it will be highly customizable, but we are not going to offer

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Jan 25, 2008 11:01 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: Actually, I don't think that we need to put action recording on our list as that will become obsolete with non-destructive editing. This is apples and oranges, Sven :-) Non-destructive editing boosts productivity as well, but has nothing (or very

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread Robert Krawitz
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:50:56 +1030 From: David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 25, 2008 9:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine All the users who ever bugged you asking for macros recording did it because they don't feel like programmers to learn Script/Python/Perl-Fu. With

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread David Gowers
Hi Alexandre, On Jan 25, 2008 9:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 11:01 AM, Sven Neumann wrote: Actually, I don't think that we need to put action recording on our list as that will become obsolete with non-destructive editing. This is apples and

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Jan 25, 2008 4:20 PM, David Gowers wrote: What significant sequence of actions that you can take is there, that cannot be done by simple graph editing? Users do not think in terms of graphs, they think in terms of actions and sequences of actions. They want to click Record, mess around with

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread David Gowers
On Jan 26, 2008 12:09 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 4:20 PM, David Gowers wrote: What significant sequence of actions that you can take is there, that cannot be done by simple graph editing? Users do not think in terms of graphs, they think in terms of

Re: [Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Jan 25, 2008 4:54 PM, David Gowers wrote: In short -- what you call 'action recording', I call 'packaging up a chunk of the undo stack'. Really, your 'start' and 'stop' actions would be trivial to implement: mark the start location in undo stack; mark the end; and prompt the user for a

[Gimp-developer] task list

2008-01-24 Thread William Skaggs
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think we want to publish something and call it a roadmap. But we had the plan to make a list of important tasks that outline where GIMP is heading and what we consider important to work on. Since there doesn't seem to be enough interest among the