[Gimp-user] Wacom Pen Buttons

2008-10-27 Thread Hroth
You need to set it up within GIMP.  It's under preferences, I think.

When I try to configure the configure extended input devices box in the
preferences window it lists only x,y,pressure,x tilt, y tilt and wheel for
the WACOM Tablet Pressure Stylus and the
keys tab is completely blank. Is this where the option is supposed to be? 

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Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi,

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 18:14 -0400, Ernie Wright wrote:

 Does something the user does not expect is the definition of a design
 flaw 

It's more like technically it does the right thing, but the user
expects a different result. Unfortunately there is often no clear
solution for these kind of problems.


Sven


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[Gimp-user] Wacom Pen Buttons

2008-10-27 Thread Hroth
Is there a file containing the preferences settings that I can manually edit
in a text editor to change the default settings or something?

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[Gimp-user] Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4

2008-10-27 Thread Claus Berghammer

Hello Gimp Users and Developers,

This is a follow up of Bug 557950 (which in fact isn't a bug, according to
Sven Neumann ;-)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557950

As described in the “Bug”, scaling in Gimp 2.6 series is far slower, than it
was in 2.4. Sven Neumann commented:

“We have completely changed the scaling implementation. The new algorithm is
slower for some cases, but that is not a bug.”

Since there is no explanation WHY the algorithm was rewritten, I guess 2
possible reasons:

1.)The old code did something wrong in some cases
2.)The new code was necessary due to GEGL integration

For the first point, I compared scaling results from 2.4 and 2.6, and they
are (ignoring some harmless alignment issues) 100% identical (using
difference blend mode). I also cannot remember, that in the past years, the
scaling routine in Gimp produced noticeable wrong results. (Beside the
lanczos interpolation, that didn't work right, when it was introduced)

So my question is, isn't it possible, to have both algorithms in Gimp, and
let the user decide which one he wants to use? (Option in Scale Dialog) 

If it was due to point 2, the GEGL integration, than can we expect a faster
version of the new scaling routine? Or will it be automatically faster, when
GEGL is integrated more/better?

The current situation draws some users (not myself) to not use Gimp 2.6, and
stick with 2.4 instead, because the difference in speed is so dramatically.

Sincerely, Claus Berghammer

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Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-27 Thread Nathan Lane
So why not convert your selection to a path then stroke the path? This is a
good work around, and even in my mind now, this makes sense. The stroked
path is antialiased.
Nathan

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi,

 On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 18:14 -0400, Ernie Wright wrote:

  Does something the user does not expect is the definition of a design
  flaw

 It's more like technically it does the right thing, but the user
 expects a different result. Unfortunately there is often no clear
 solution for these kind of problems.


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Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-27 Thread Simon Budig
Nathan Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 So why not convert your selection to a path then stroke the path? This is a
 good work around, and even in my mind now, this makes sense. The stroked
 path is antialiased.

This is a good workaround if you know what you're doing and what effect
you're after. We just cannot make this descision on behalf of the user
from within Gimp code.

Bye,
Simon

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[Gimp-user] Identify old GIMP font

2008-10-27 Thread Per Gregers Bilse
Hi,

I'm not really a big/fanciful user of GIMP, but have found it extremely
useful on the odd occasion.  One such was when I needed to create a set
of buttons for a virtual instrument, 4-5 years ago.

I have now forgotten the name of the font I used (...)  and I'm wondering
if anybody here might be able to identify it.  Please have a look at
the screenshot at

http://www.networksignature.com/normalshot.png

The font in question is the one used in the buttons on the left (Hour,
Day, Week, etc).  I do remember it had an odd name, there was only one
of its kind (no bold, italic, etc), and it came in only half a dozen
sizes or so.  I also remember that when I upgraded the system a year or
so later, the font didn't show up in GIMPs font listing, and I made an
important note of tracking it down (which I of course didn't get round
to doing).

Your help will be most appreciated.

Thanks, best,

  -- Per
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Re: [Gimp-user] Identify old GIMP font

2008-10-27 Thread Simon Budig
Per Gregers Bilse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 The font in question is the one used in the buttons on the left (Hour,
 Day, Week, etc).  I do remember it had an odd name, there was only one
 of its kind (no bold, italic, etc), and it came in only half a dozen
 sizes or so.

That looks like one of the Fixed fonts shipped with the X-Server.

Since Gimp no longer uses the X11-mechanisms for font selection it no
longer shows up in the font dialog. You need to somehow convince
fontconfig to provide that font as well. I currently cannot tell you ad
hoc how to achieve that.

Bye,
Simon

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Re: [Gimp-user] Identify old GIMP font

2008-10-27 Thread GSR - FR
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2008-10-27 at 1842.17 +0100):
 Per Gregers Bilse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
  The font in question is the one used in the buttons on the left (Hour,
  Day, Week, etc).  I do remember it had an odd name, there was only one
  of its kind (no bold, italic, etc), and it came in only half a dozen
  sizes or so.
 
 That looks like one of the Fixed fonts shipped with the X-Server.
 
 Since Gimp no longer uses the X11-mechanisms for font selection it no
 longer shows up in the font dialog. You need to somehow convince
 fontconfig to provide that font as well. I currently cannot tell you ad
 hoc how to achieve that.

Modern fontconfig has /etc/fonts/ dir with config options and where
you can write a local.conf file. Probably it has some defaults and
other things (alternatives, examples) commented out. In some cases,
there are files you can copy (or better symlinks) from the
conf.avail subdir to the conf.d subdir and that way activate
things. I see a README explaining all this, and man fonts.conf also
helps.

GSR
 
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Re: [Gimp-user] Wacom Pen Buttons

2008-10-27 Thread GSR - FR
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2008-10-23 at 1342.25 +0200):
 Hi, I'm using Gimp 2.6.0 for Windows with a Wacom Cintiq 12WX graphical
 tablet. Whenever I press one of the buttons on the Wacom pen it comes up with
 the right-click file,edit etc. menu and the other button moves the canvas
 around. I keep hitting them by mistake and would like to disable this. 

Long time since I had a Wacom in MSWindows, but I remember the driver
had a tool to configure what each button did (send MB2, send double
click of MB1, disable, etc). Maybe that is still provided so look into
what Wacom installed at the operating system level, not just GIMP
config options. Personally I found the extra buttons useful, so just
started holding the pen with the button near finger tip but not
touched... similar idea to old fountain pens, they have a single
holding position. ;]

GSR
 
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Re: [Gimp-user] Identify old GIMP font

2008-10-27 Thread David Herman
On Monday 27 October 2008, Per Gregers Bilse wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm not really a big/fanciful user of GIMP, but have found it
 extremely useful on the odd occasion.  One such was when I needed
 to create a set of buttons for a virtual instrument, 4-5 years
 ago.

 I have now forgotten the name of the font I used (...)  and I'm
 wondering if anybody here might be able to identify it.  Please
 have a look at the screenshot at

 http://www.networksignature.com/normalshot.png
-snip---

What the others have said is undoubtably correct.

The original font you used is probably not Eurostyle
but there are some similarities, it might work for you as a 
replacement

see ya
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Re: [Gimp-user] Scaling in Gimp 2.6 is much slower than in Gimp 2.4

2008-10-27 Thread Eric P
Claus Berghammer wrote:
 Hello Gimp Users and Developers,
 
 This is a follow up of Bug 557950 (which in fact isn't a bug, according to
 Sven Neumann ;-)
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557950
 
 As described in the “Bug”, scaling in Gimp 2.6 series is far slower, than it
 was in 2.4. Sven Neumann commented:
 
 “We have completely changed the scaling implementation. The new algorithm is
 slower for some cases, but that is not a bug.”
 
 Since there is no explanation WHY the algorithm was rewritten, I guess 2
 possible reasons:
 
   1.)The old code did something wrong in some cases
   2.)The new code was necessary due to GEGL integration
 
 For the first point, I compared scaling results from 2.4 and 2.6, and they
 are (ignoring some harmless alignment issues) 100% identical (using
 difference blend mode). I also cannot remember, that in the past years, the
 scaling routine in Gimp produced noticeable wrong results. (Beside the
 lanczos interpolation, that didn't work right, when it was introduced)
 
 So my question is, isn't it possible, to have both algorithms in Gimp, and
 let the user decide which one he wants to use? (Option in Scale Dialog) 
 
 If it was due to point 2, the GEGL integration, than can we expect a faster
 version of the new scaling routine? Or will it be automatically faster, when
 GEGL is integrated more/better?
 
 The current situation draws some users (not myself) to not use Gimp 2.6, and
 stick with 2.4 instead, because the difference in speed is so dramatically.
 
 Sincerely, Claus Berghammer
 

I'd be curious to see some benchmarks comparing 2.4 and 2.6 in this regard so 
that we know just how dramatically
different the speed is.

Eric P.
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Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-27 Thread Ernie Wright
Sven Neumann wrote:

 On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 18:14 -0400, Ernie Wright wrote:
 
Does something the user does not expect is the definition of a design
flaw 
 
 It's more like technically it does the right thing, but the user
 expects a different result.

Design flaws aren't technical problems, they're conceptual problems.
The program is doing the wrong thing correctly.

- Ernie  http://home.comcast.net/~erniew
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Re: [Gimp-user] stroke selection not antialiased

2008-10-27 Thread Ernie Wright
Simon Budig wrote:

 Nathan Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
So why not convert your selection to a path then stroke the path? This is a
good work around, and even in my mind now, this makes sense. The stroked
path is antialiased.
 
 This is a good workaround if you know what you're doing and what effect
 you're after. We just cannot make this descision on behalf of the user
 from within Gimp code.

I can't believe any user actually wants this behavior.

But assuming some do, they could still get it by untoggling the
Antialiased checkbox in Choose Stroke Style--and in fact, I would expect
users who want aliased strokes are already doing that, unaware that the
Antialiased setting makes no difference at all (that I can see, anyway).

- Ernie  http://home.comcast.net/~erniew
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