Re: [Gimp-developer] version numbers

2003-06-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:40:17PM +1000, Owen wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:41:20 -0400 Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe we can jump it up to 2 simply because everyone seems to be involved again :) Follow Mr Knuth's technique Call this one 1.4 which would be followed by

[Gimp-developer] Re: What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
From what I expected and understood from the Future of Gimp RFC: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03656.html Gimp 2.0 will indeed have 16-bit per colour value, CMYK, integration with GEGL, etc. If there's still work in this direction, then I suggest making it version 2.0, and

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:35:51PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: And please try a google search for gimp 2.0 as suggested. My quick looking reveals gimp 2.0 backend, 16 bit, cmyk, does qualify for pre press ... I did that since Marc suggested and I spent some time with the results. I

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread David Neary
Hans Breuer wrote: To clarify things a bit and to justify a 2.0 version number for this release, I made a compressed version of the NEWS file as found in the 1.3 tree. So here's a list of (mostly user-visible) changes. I'm sure I still missed quite a few things... I could comment on every

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com writes: I'm sorry but I need to sell this conference at the moment and everyone seems flat broke. We really could need some good marketing and instead Who is we? A company? You are selling a conference? So the fact that you mentioned the number 2.0 to

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tino Schwarze) writes: I did a more specific search: http://www.google.com/search?q=gimp+2.0+-gtk+-GTK+GEGL+-gimp-developer+-gegl-developer I excluded pages mentioning GTK plus the developer lists. Still 160 hits, some on major sites. The main argument against naming

[Gimp-developer] A new filter idea..

2003-06-19 Thread Bowie J. Poag
Is this the right forum to discuss new filter ideas? If so, I have one i'd like to share. Cheers, Bowie ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally I wouldn't be averse to calling the current CVS 2.0, and having a 2.2 pretty quickly afterwards (say around Christmas) as was done with GTK+ to say All known bugs introduced in the 2.0 release are fixed. I am glad you said that since

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com writes: Ok, here's _my_ deal: *If* you say that not calling it 2.0 would cause problems in fundraising, then you simply win... While my concerns were, for me, important enough to mention them (and argue about them), and while the gtk+ has 2 etc.. style

Re: [Gimp-developer] A new filter idea..

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Bowie J. Poag [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this the right forum to discuss new filter ideas? If so, I have one i'd like to share. Sure, go ahead and tell us what you have in mind. Sven ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-developer] blur filter

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, M.C. Joel E. Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have an image with blured added noise (actually, donk know the noise distribution) and would like to ``clean it''. does such a blur filter exists?, can somebody give me some directions? You might have a better chance to get an answer if

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread David Neary
Sven Neumann wrote: Yes, please. But we probably need to get to a point here. GIMP-something.0 sounds pretty weird for a stable release... I say it's time for a show of hands. My vote is for 2.0, because there are likely to be lots of new bugs and 1.4 makes it sould like a really stable

Re: [Gimp-developer] A new filter idea..

2003-06-19 Thread pcg
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:05:25AM -0700, Bowie J. Poag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this the right forum to discuss new filter ideas? If so, I have one i'd like to share. Sure it is, even more so if you plan to implement it, hint, hint :) -- -==-

[Gimp-developer] Re: A new filter idea..

2003-06-19 Thread Carol Spears
Bowie, welcome. I am sure that any idea you have for a filter will be more than welcome here. :) carol On 2003-06-19 at 0205.25 -0700, Bowie J. Poag typed this: Is this the right forum to discuss new filter ideas? If so, I have one i'd like to share. Cheers, Bowie

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Adam D. Moss
David Neary wrote: By the way, what's the current story with PuPUS? Is it abandoned, or will it get released at some stage post-1.3+? You can look back through the archives for my notes on pupus' state. In summary I had to kill it because of lack of time. An early version was up and running, but

Re: [Gimp-developer] A new filter idea..

2003-06-19 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Thursday 19 June 2003 06:05, Bowie J. Poag wrote: Is this the right forum to discuss new filter ideas? If so, I have one i'd like to share. Maybe... But might be gimp-user, or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just send the idea at once. :-) Cheers, Bowie

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:14:30PM +0200, David Neary wrote: Yes, please. But we probably need to get to a point here. GIMP-something.0 sounds pretty weird for a stable release... I say it's time for a show of hands. My vote is for 2.0, because there are likely to be lots of new bugs and

[Gimp-developer] Re: What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Branko Collin
On 19 Jun 2003, at 12:56, Sven Neumann wrote: pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com writes: Ok, here's _my_ deal: *If* you say that not calling it 2.0 would cause problems in fundraising, then you simply win... While my concerns were, for me, important enough to mention them (and argue

Re: [Gimp-developer] useless plead for honest evrsion numbers :)

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Christopher W. Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something of a clincher for me is: has the file format changed? If I save an XCF under 1.4 and I can still open it under version 1.2, then it seems more like a point release. This doesn't add much to the discussion but I felt I could not

[Gimp-developer] IANAL, LZW

2003-06-19 Thread Branko Collin
IANAL, but IIRC, today is the day the absurd (and perhaps illegally gained) LZW patent claim of Unisys runs out in the USA. Merkins can use GIF now. -- branko collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-developer] useless plead for honest evrsion numbers :)

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Robert L Krawitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IMHO, this is not a good reason for numbering it 2.0. By now, GTK+ stands independently of the GIMP; it's maintained by different people, the releases aren't synchronized, and indeed (even in 1.2) the GIMP has its own widget set layered on top

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:14, David Neary wrote: Sven Neumann wrote: Yes, please. But we probably need to get to a point here. GIMP-something.0 sounds pretty weird for a stable release... I say it's time for a show of hands. My vote is for 2.0, because there are likely to be lots of new

Re: [Gimp-developer] IANAL, LZW

2003-06-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:16:23PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote: IANAL, but IIRC, today is the day the absurd (and perhaps illegally gained) LZW patent claim of Unisys runs out in the USA. Merkins can use GIF now. Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan until

Re: [Gimp-developer] IANAL, LZW

2003-06-19 Thread Marco Wessel
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Tino Schwarze wrote: Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan until then. And here I thought software, ideas, and maths weren't patentable in Europe. Japan I don't know about, but I recall the US lobbying for such things being patentable

Re: [Gimp-developer] IANAL, LZW

2003-06-19 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:45:30PM +0200, Marco Wessel wrote: Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan until then. And here I thought software, ideas, and maths weren't patentable in Europe. That's what I thought too, but my source (

[Gimp-developer] Re: What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Carol Spears
On 2003-06-19 at 1504.01 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen typed this: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:14, David Neary wrote: Sven Neumann wrote: Yes, please. But we probably need to get to a point here. GIMP-something.0 sounds pretty weird for a stable release... I say it's time for a show of

[Gimp-developer] David Neary mail problems

2003-06-19 Thread pcg
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:17:52PM +0200, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just FYI, I get relay prohibited to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when replying to you. -- -==- | ==-- _ |

[Gimp-developer] Menus in image window

2003-06-19 Thread David Neary
A few people I have talked to expressed a wish to have the menus on to of image windows on by default. It is certainly a much more intuitive way to get at the context menus than the right mouse button, and newer gimp users seem to find it very helpful. Thus, I would like to propose having them

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread pcg
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:56:03PM +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still disagree on that, people are eagerly waiting for 2.0 for the very features it should have. Unfortunately. Are they? I do. Others on this list do. It's up to you to make your opinion on that. I don't

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread pcg
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:03:50PM +0200, Branko Collin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you have to ask yourself: who am I selling to? Graphics artists? (off-topic philosophical rant, not meant as an answer to you!) Personally, I didn't write gimp-perl (the only major contribution of mine to gimp)

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread pcg
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:14:30PM +0200, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I say it's time for a show of hands. My vote is for 2.0, because My vote is for 1.x, or 2.0, if sven decides it on the grounds that we need it for marketing. The other arguments simply don't overweight the confusion I

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com writes: When, if not now, do you want to increase the major version number? When there is a major change (e.g. gegl, cmyk). Using another toolkit is not a major change at all to me. Using the same internal representation for images, having the same

Re: [Gimp-developer] Menus in image window

2003-06-19 Thread David Neary
David Neary wrote: Thus, I would like to propose having them on by default, and turnoffable by expert users. Consider this a request for comments. It's a tiny thing - I just want to see if there are any objections. To see just how tiny, there's a patch attached :) Cheers, Dave. --

Re: [Gimp-developer] Menus in image window

2003-06-19 Thread David Neary
Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is even an argument for having them always-on, and turning off that option. The option is always available not to use them, after all :) That would be really bad. When doing graphics work (and every other kind of

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Øyvind Kolås
* Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030619 17:18]: Hi, pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com writes: When, if not now, do you want to increase the major version number? When there is a major change (e.g. gegl, cmyk). Using another toolkit is not a major change at all to me. Using the same

[Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread José Manuel García-Patos
My point in this situation is that, given that version number doesn´t matter all that much, why can´t we just be honest with ourselves and call it 1.4? Look, nobody cares about version numbers anymore. Let´s take the Linux kernel as an example: version 2.2 got a lot more of media attention than

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread pcg
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:09:57PM +0200, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so replacing the approx. 8,000 lines of code in the base directory with GEGL would be considered a major feature. If we get all the other stuff we said would be in 2.0, yes. The fact that the other 230,000

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com writes: Well, from a user perspective, the improvement from using gtk2 over gtk1 is very nearly nil Even for me, the switch from gtk2 to gtk1 in itself is not at all an important new feature or improvement. I wonder why you keep talking about the

[Gimp-developer] New thread on GIMP 1.3+

2003-06-19 Thread David Neary
Hi all, At this stage, everyone has had their say on the version number thing. Personally I'm surprised there is so much fuss. But at this stage we all know where we all stand. I'm starting a new thread to try to accomplish 2 things. 1) The death of all the other next version threads (I think

Re: [Gimp-developer] New thread on GIMP 1.3+

2003-06-19 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 21:44, David Neary wrote: To facilitate that, could the people who wish to express an opinion on the version numbering reply to this thread (once each) with the version number they would like to see on the next stable release of the GIMP. The rest of this mail can be

Re: [Gimp-developer] New thread on GIMP 1.3+

2003-06-19 Thread Adam D. Moss
David Neary wrote: I'll get the ball rolling: 2.0 8.0 (PeerMarketParityTM... sorry for the spam) -- Adam D. Moss . ,,^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foxbox.org/ co:3 Responsible parents don't raise kids in West Virginia. ___ Gimp-developer

[Gimp-developer] New Filter Idea: Disease

2003-06-19 Thread Bowie J. Poag
Hi gang, I've gotta get to class in a few minutes, but, here's something to look at: http://www.ibiblio.org/propaganda/Gimp-DiseaseFilter.gif Disclaimer: I don't know if this sort of thing already exists in Gimp. If it does, do let me know. It would save me alot of coding effort. :)

Re: [Gimp-developer] New thread on GIMP 1.3+

2003-06-19 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:44:01PM +0200, David Neary wrote: I'll get the ball rolling: 2.0 1.4. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-developer] New thread on GIMP 1.3+

2003-06-19 Thread Nathan Carl Summers
My vote is for 1.4. Otherwise, the Slashdot headline we will get is GIMP 2.0 Fails to Deliver Promised Features Rockwalrus ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

[Gimp-developer] Re: Blur filter

2003-06-19 Thread Joel Eduardo Rodriguez Ramirez
Actually I would like to colaborate with a new filter also (as Bowie), but mine idea is in the direction of: ``Inverse Image Filtering with Conjugate Gradient'' http://people.cornell.edu/pages/zz25/imgcg/ it is a new idea under Gimp? Downloading the latest 1.x versi'on will look into the

Re: [Gimp-developer] New thread on GIMP 1.3+

2003-06-19 Thread Jakub Steiner
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 21:44, David Neary wrote: I'll get the ball rolling: 2.0 1.4. From the marketing perspective 2.0 would do more harm than good because of the mentioned expected bad press ('none of the promised features'). -- Jakub Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-developer] What's new in GIMP-1.3 so far

2003-06-19 Thread Raymond Ostertag
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:03:55 +0200 David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since CVS has what amounts to a re-write of 1.2 (as opposed to the modularisation which was envisaged way back at GIMPCon 2000), we would need to be careful that we don't give the impression of stability with an

[Gimp-developer] [Fwd: Gimp features]

2003-06-19 Thread Adam D. Moss
I got this directed at me so I'm bouncing it to this list (don't ask me for an interpretation, I only work here). --Adam ---BeginMessage--- Hello Adam. I should propose next feature for gimp: Scale for brush. - I have scale brush - zoom in and zoom out.(bird,range,and all other brushes).Too I