On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:38:45PM +0200, Pierre-Alexis wrote: > Hello, > > I have a couple of thoughts that may (or may not) > interest you : > - it's too bad that Gimp's filters' previews don't > allow you to zoom in/out... it makes them almost > useless in many cases ! it's sad too that some filters > don't even have a preview...
one of the differences in the plug-ins and their previews is that some of the plug-ins have been written in c and have access to the parts of gimp that use previews. others have been scripted in either script-fu or python or perl (depending on if you have gimp-python and gimp-perl installed or not). the last time that i looked, scripts for gimp do not have access to previews. > - it's a little strange (but not serious) that filters > previews are to be seen in a little preview windows, > while other tools' previews (curves, hue-saturation, > and so on...) are to be seen in the main window... it > give a "non rigorous" feeling... > you can easily configure the size of the previews for the plug-ins that have previews. i wrote a how-to and a demonstration of how to do this on my web site: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp2/basics/gui/gtk/gtkrc.html i created examples up to 576x576pixels. just because my examples stopped there does not mean that you need to. > What do you think of all this ? Does it read relevant > to you ? > it makes sense what you are asking. the mishmash of different plug-ins and different behavior makes sense as well, if you can understand the gimp and its humble origins. it was in so many ways like a big community soup in which everyone brought something good and different and added it into the making. or perhaps like a pot luck dinner. at least this seems to describe the gimp-1.0 i started with. i also can see what a huge effort it would be, coding-wise, to give preview access to gimp scripters. it might be a case on my part of a little knowledge is a bad thing, but i understand it enough to see how complicated it would be. it is also (perhaps) difficult to see the humble origins right now from such a beautiful piece of software. this was the goal, but remember, looks can be deceiving and probably that is the intention of "looks" -- to be deceiving. i hope the configuration how-to is helpful to you. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
