Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color

2013-07-30 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 20:50:29 +0200 From: si...@budig.de To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color ok, to clarify: I meant Shift-X (as in X vs. x :) The point is though that the functionality behind shift-x got lost

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color

2013-07-29 Thread Richard Gitschlag
So, to give an analogy, if you are working on a surface with no alpha channel, you can simply swap to the background color to erase something you've drawn (which is also precisely what the Eraser tool does if there's no alpha channel!), right? Okay, I think I understand. You know how the

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color

2013-07-29 Thread Simon Budig
Richard Gitschlag (strata_ran...@hotmail.com) wrote: Okay, I think I understand. You know how the Eraser option uses an Alt key modifier for Anti-erase? Maybe add something similar to the Pencil/Paintbrush tools - Alt key activates an anti paint mode. The difference between this and

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color

2013-07-29 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Simon Budig wrote: At some point we had a feature where the keyboard shortcut X would swap between two different tools (and their contexts). It seems that this feature got lost at some point unfortunately. Anybody willing to hunt it down and resurrect it? X

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color

2013-07-29 Thread Brendan Scott
On 07/30/2013 04:45 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Simon Budig wrote: At some point we had a feature where the keyboard shortcut X would swap between two different tools (and their contexts). It seems that this feature got lost at some point unfortunately.

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color - Update

2013-07-26 Thread Brendan Scott
Just to be clear - the reason I am proposing the enhancement request is a new way of using a feature which has already been coded (ie giving the paintbrush eraser functionality). The purpose is primarily to have a better workflow, but also to have more meaningful treatment of background

Re: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Gitschlag
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:09:13 +1000 From: disposableem...@apps.opensourcelaw.biz To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: [Gimp-user] Enhancement request: Transparency as a paintable color Hi All, I have lodged a request for GIMP to support use of transparency as a color. By this I