Re: [Gimp-user] Moving text while typing it.

2008-11-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 02:53 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: In KDE's KolourPaint one can open the Text tool, add text, and move the text insert location while the text is in edit mode. How does one do this in Gimp? You open the text tool, add text and move the text using your mouse or the

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving text while typing it.

2008-11-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/15 Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 02:53 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: In KDE's KolourPaint one can open the Text tool, add text, and move the text insert location while the text is in edit mode. How does one do this in Gimp? You open the text tool, add text

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving text while typing it.

2008-11-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 14:07 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, Sven. It seems that on my system (Kubuntu 8.04) one must close the window labeled Gimp Text Editor in order to move the text. I don't see why you would have to close that window in order to move the text. What keeps you from

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving text while typing it.

2008-11-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/15 Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, Sven. It seems that on my system (Kubuntu 8.04) one must close the window labeled Gimp Text Editor in order to move the text. I don't see why you would have to close that window in order to move the text. What keeps you from moving the text

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving text while typing it.

2008-11-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/11/15 Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Excellent, thanks! However, the more general question stands: do the Gimp devs take kindly to feature requests regarding the usability of Gimp's tools? Or should I not even bother and waste their time? The developers

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving text while typing it.

2008-11-15 Thread sablade08
I thought that was just because I was using the MAC version. Actually, I find I can only move the text with the arrow keys while any use of the mouse closes the box to editing regardless of where one clicks. On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:04:38 +0200, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/11/15

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving text while typing it.

2008-11-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/15 Martin Nordholts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/11/15 Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Excellent, thanks! However, the more general question stands: do the Gimp devs take kindly to feature requests regarding the usability of Gimp's tools? Or should I not even bother and

Re: [Gimp-user] Moving text while typing it.

2008-11-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 16:04 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: After more experimentation, I see that this is the situation: If I click the canvas outside the text field, then the Gimp Text Editor window gets focus and I cannot move the text with the keyboard (nor the mouse, because I was not

[Gimp-user] gimp 2.6 - separate+

2008-11-15 Thread Bernhard S.
Hello, I've been trying to use the seperate+-plugin recently with gimp2.6 to create CMYK tiff images... it's currently not working for me. is there a way to use it with gimp 2.6? i can compile it after installing libtiff-dev and libgimp2.0-dev, but after installing it, gimp tells me the following

Re: [Gimp-user] gimp 2.6 - separate+

2008-11-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 21:43 +0100, Bernhard S. wrote: I've been trying to use the seperate+-plugin recently with gimp2.6 to create CMYK tiff images... it's currently not working for me. is there a way to use it with gimp 2.6? i can compile it after installing libtiff-dev and