Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

2015-12-16 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
gt; It makes sense that the most discoverable UI should be the one to do > the  > more, and later users learn progressively optimized UI logics to > improve  > their workflow. For all theses reasons, the *default* UI seems  > acceptable. Agreed. Liam -- Liam

[Gimp-gui] problems with the wiki on gui.gimp.org

2017-05-06 Thread Liam R E Quin
by hand; Americo's user page because the user accounts were lost; one page that had a colon in its page title and it turned out that the MediaWiki backup script couldn't handle that!!! When elephants poop at least it's good for the soil. -- Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> Web

Re: [Gimp-gui] Possible places to save vertical space in Single (and Multiple) Window Mode

2017-12-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2017-12-29 at 18:14 +0100, Tobias Ellinghaus wrote: > Am Freitag, 29. Dezember 2017, 16:32:49 CET schrieb Elle Stone: > > Hi All, > [...] > > > 6. [...] image window tabs [...] > This one annoys me most. When only having a single image open the > tabs should > probably not shown at all.

Re: [Gimp-gui] Prioritize loading speed, dismiss fonts loading.

2018-03-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 14:26 +, Fulvio Massimo Mariani wrote: > Also consider that a designer usually has more than 3000 fonts > installed, Yup... $ fc-list | wc -l 9069 And that's only active fonts. GIMP starts in under 5 seconds though, and this computer is several years old. And since

Re: [Gimp-gui] Pipette

2020-06-18 Thread Liam R E Quin
[replying to the list too] On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 16:48 +0200, Benjamin Röhling wrote: > Yes, there was some text. > > My question is, can the pipet get an option to sample color from all > layers? It has such an option, in Tool Options; it's called Sample Merged. That is, assuming that you mean

Re: [Gimp-gui] About the "floating selection"

2020-12-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 22:47 +0100, Jehan wrote: > > I don't think we should just assume that "multiple masks" would > follow later. Fair point. . Let's > just keep floating selections, but for this unique case, rename it > "floating mask" and maybe move the icon to the right (above the mask >

[Gimp-gui] opentype feature support

2021-06-21 Thread Liam R E Quin
Inkscape and LibreOffice both have some openType font feature support. It's a major part of OpenType, and it's big in graphic design. Examples include * alternate glyphs, that might be accessed with a "gyph palette" * enabling small caps, different styles of numerals * control over ligatures (fi,

[Gimp-gui] gimp project file support

2021-07-14 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
*OK, maybe i should think about something smaller before trying to tackle opentype features and text for now :) Smaller and bigger at the same way. I've wished for a long time gimp had the concept of projects - * a set of related resources such as fonts, brushes * tool settings and other presets

Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp project file support

2021-07-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 22:06 +0200, Jehan wrote: > > be radical :) > > Ahah too bad, especially as it got stuck in wait list, so I could > have deleted it before distribution if you had told me!  Hah, i didn't realise it had been sent until i saw it in the list! Thank you for taking the time

Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp project file support

2021-07-14 Thread Liam R E Quin
oops, i actually sent that out by mistake, it was in my drafts folder! it's a bit half-baked (and the font stuff has been goig better) but what the heck, let's be radical :) On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 12:25 -0400, Liam R. E. Quin wrote: > *OK, maybe i should think about something smaller bef

Re: [Gimp-gui] PLEASE improve font organization

2022-06-29 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2022-06-30 at 01:32 +0200, Jehan wrote: > [ > I...] > understand. Though I think that the point is also that these are > considered fonts of their own. I.e. using your example, sure Arial > Italic and Arial are related, but Arial Italic is more than just > Arial > glyphs made italic.