Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 13:29 -0800, Mark Lowry wrote: > If a second, stationary window is used rather than a > moving "lens", I would suggest that it should have its > own buttons for controling the magnification level. > Its desktop location should also be able to be > remembered upon exitin

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Mark Lowry
Good point. A GIMP magnifier such as we are discussing should magnify the actual image, not just the desktop portrayal of the image. If a second, stationary window is used rather than a moving "lens", I would suggest that it should have its own buttons for controling the magnification level. Its

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread gg
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:10:47 +0100, Akkana Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > peter sikking writes: >> what I am asking myself is 'does this thing need to be circular? > > XEphem has a magnifier in some of its views, like the moon view. > It's just a square with a yellow border, and you can drag

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Akkana Peck
peter sikking writes: > what I am asking myself is 'does this thing need to be circular? XEphem has a magnifier in some of its views, like the moon view. It's just a square with a yellow border, and you can drag the mouse around and magnify different parts of the image in real time. http://shallow

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Mohler
> how should tool interaction work with this? Would you want to see the > mouse cursor in the magnified view? Should you able to interact in it or > is it just a view? IMO, there should be a fixed crosshair or something in the center of the "zoom window" that corresponds to the cursor. As the to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:02:26 +0100, Thorsten Wilms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This leads me to a similar idea: > Opening a second view (implemented since long) > and enabling an option 'follow cursor', which would > scroll the view following the cursor, as long as the > cursor is on another vi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: > how should tool interaction work with this? the tool still only interacts in a real GIMP window > Would you want to see the mouse cursor in the magnified view? yep, normal sized mouse cursor, with for all the brush based tools the brush coverage shape enlarged correctly. > Should

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 07:41 -0800, Mark Lowry wrote: > Here's a screen shot of the Windows version in action. > > http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL66/86790/6669793/233053894.jpg > > The Windows version is not "bad", but improvements > could be made and I don't know if other operating > syst

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Mark Lowry
IMO, you definitely need to see the mouse cursor in the magnified view, and you should be able to interact with it. Windows has a magnifier that uses a second window for the magnified display. The good is that the cursor shows up in the enlarged view ... the bad is that the window takes up so muc

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread peter sikking
Steve Stavropoulos wrote: > I really _miss_ this feature! One of the things I do all the time, is > selecting rectangular regions from an image, with pixel perfect > precision and then copy + paste as new. > The important things in implementing something like this are: > 1) You have to have an

Re: [Gimp-developer] Unknown host anoncvs.gnome.org

2007-02-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 10:04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvs/gnome > CVS password: > Unknown host anoncvs.gnome.org. > > Have I missed a big change or is this a misleading error? You certainly don't missed the fact that we moved from CVS to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, how should tool interaction work with this? Would you want to see the mouse cursor in the magnified view? Should you able to interact in it or is it just a view? Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://l

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Steve Stavropoulos
On 2/24/07, Mark Lowry wrote: > It would be useful to add a temporary magnifying window that would > provide a zoomed-in view of the area immediately surrounding the cursor. > This could be accessed, for example, by pressing SHIFT+Z, upon which a > small window would open up and display the area ar

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Frédéric
On Saturday 24 February 2007 14:12, Mark Lowry wrote: > I was thinking more like this ... > > http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL66/86790/6669793/233033597.jpg Hello, I have to admit that this is a great idea. But I think it is better to have both normal and magnified view at the same time, becau

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Mark Lowry
I was thinking more like this ... http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL66/86790/6669793/233033597.jpg --- peter sikking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Lowry wrote: > > > It would be useful to add a temporary magnifying > > window that would provide a zoomed-in view of the > > area immediately s

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread peter sikking
Mark Lowry wrote: > It would be useful to add a temporary magnifying > window that would provide a zoomed-in view of the > area immediately surrounding the cursor. like this? assigned to a spring-loaded key (push down: magnifier appears, r

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement Proposal: Add a temporary magnifier

2007-02-24 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:14:13PM -0800, Mark Lowry wrote: > It would be useful to add a temporary magnifying > window that would provide a > zoomed-in view of the area immediately surrounding the > cursor. > This functionality would be very useful when making > selections with the pen > tool, l

Re: [Gimp-developer] Unknown host anoncvs.gnome.org

2007-02-24 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 2/24/07, gg wrote: > Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvs/gnome > CVS password: > Unknown host anoncvs.gnome.org. > > Have I missed a big change or is this a misleading error? You did :) svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gimp/trunk/ gimp Alexandre __

[Gimp-developer] Unknown host anoncvs.gnome.org

2007-02-24 Thread gg
Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/cvs/gnome CVS password: Unknown host anoncvs.gnome.org. Have I missed a big change or is this a misleading error? If it means cvs interface has been pulled , where are the instruction to set up svn? Thx.