Re: [Gimp-user] Image bit depth

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Worthington
It's worth remembering that printing is almost universally still 8bit. However, it is clearly very important that any current image package should allow opening and manipulation of greater depth images. My own camera is a long obsolete Fuji S20 but it produces 12bit images. As a result all

Re: [Gimp-user] Image bit depth

2008-01-16 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:49:59 -, Joao S. O. Bueno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, answering you both: yes, current gimp trunk is using GEGL for some color operations, which are them performed at 32bit floating point precision. Version 2.6, which will come out this year will implement

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-29 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:17:10 -, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 December 2007 1:12:41 am JC Dill wrote: Scott wrote: I didn't attack you... yet. You, on the other hand, ARE attacking others here: And why on Earth would you not at least display the actual ratio as the user

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-29 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:40:09 -, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Looks like despite many attempts to explain it to you, you still did not understand that you misunderstood how the tool works in GIMP 2.4 and that you don't need the Alt key in order to use it. Have it your way;

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-29 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:42:54 -, Bob Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Worthington wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:40:09 -, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Since I use the click-drag a lot when working on websites, an extra twiddle with an extra menu is a nuisance and 2.2

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Thomas Worthington
I've just reverted to 2.2 2.4 has too many problems to bother with; the alt key is the final straw. TW On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:42:29 -, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 21:18 +, Thomas Worthington wrote: It's not a problem either with window managers

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:29:12 -, Olivier Lecarme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you be only a little specific about these capricious changes? And what is this alt-key problem? From the beginning of GIMP, the alt key has been used for some specific uses, for example in the layer mask. I'm

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:05:39 -, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:26:12 am Thomas Worthington wrote: Moving a selected region is a very common action and now seems impossible under normal Linux user interfaces. I can see the application of capricious

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:37:02 -, JC Dill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope that documentation is high on your list. This is one of the weakest parts of most open source projects. Something like a browser needs little documentation. Something more complex like a mail reader needs more

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:08:44 -, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:46 +, Thomas Worthington wrote: I've just reverted to 2.2 2.4 has too many problems to bother with; the alt key is the final straw. Sorry, but if there are problems with 2.4

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-20 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:00:40 -, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is actually the point where the 2.4 crop tool is a lot superior than the one in 2.2. Not only does it not pop up an annoying dialog as soon as you start to use it. It also features an entry for the aspect ratio

[Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-19 Thread Thomas Worthington
Is there any way to restore the Alt key to its old usage in 2.4? I can't drag selections anymore because it requires Alt and mouse at the same time, which is a problem on Linux. How do I tell Gimp to use another shift-type key for that action? TW

Re: [Gimp-user] Alt Key

2007-12-19 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:10:11 -, Daniel Hornung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Thomas Worthington wrote: Is there any way to restore the Alt key to its old usage in 2.4? I can't drag selections anymore because it requires Alt and mouse at the same time, which

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 Print dialog

2007-11-04 Thread Thomas Worthington
On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:31:25 -, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new dialog shows all the system printers. On a Linux system that is the printers that you installed as CUPS printers. This is usually done using gnome-cups-manager or an euqivalent printer manager. Installation of

Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-04 Thread Thomas Worthington
The website certainly deserves some negative press; it's terrible. And as the only person in the world who likes the Gimp's UI, I can say that the new one is so little different that I still like it. On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:05:21 -, Kevin Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry Loo wrote:

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 Print dialog

2007-11-04 Thread Thomas Worthington
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Worthington writes: Is there any way to get the print dialog in 2.4 to work like the old Gimp-Print one? The new one is hopeless: doesn't list my printers (which norman writes: that I haven't yet got Gimp 2.4.1 installed as there is nothing yet for non

[Gimp-user] 2.4 Print dialog

2007-11-03 Thread Thomas Worthington
Is there any way to get the print dialog in 2.4 to work like the old Gimp-Print one? The new one is hopeless: doesn't list my printers (which the old one didn't either but at least I could tell it about them), won't take a .ppd file to set printable area or indeed any other feature of the

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 Print dialog

2007-11-03 Thread Thomas Worthington
Duh! I'm on Linux (Gentoo) with Gimp 2.4.1 installed. Should have said; I keep forgetting there's other platforms out there! On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:27:38 -, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get the print dialog in 2.4 to work like the old Gimp-Print one? The new one is

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.4 Print dialog

2007-11-03 Thread Thomas Worthington
That's great, thanks. Bought the book, by the way. Very useful even though I've been using Gimp for quite a long time now. Thomas On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:00:18 -, Akkana Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Worthington writes: Is there any way to get the print dialog in 2.4 to work