Re: [Gimp-developer] New Image dialog usability bug

2004-09-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Nathan, please try to be more concise. I am not going to read this huge amount of text which, I am afraid, will in large parts be unrelated. I think Jimmac has so far given the best argument for not changing the dialog behaviour. If we would change it, we would make it impossible to work with te

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Nathan Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 3) How do you add fonts in Windows, and what types of fonts can > > GIMP use there? > > The easiest way is to drag the file onto the Fonts directory and let > the shell do its magic. Unless you've done something creative, it's > probably in its

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-11 Thread Nathan Summers
On 11 Sep 2004 09:28:54 +0200, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The information given above may be appropriate for adding fonts to > your win32 system but it is irrelevant for GIMP on Win32. Please read > my other mail in this very thread. That's funny. Works for me. I'd call the metho

Re: [Gimp-developer] Console window on Win32

2004-09-11 Thread Alif Wahid
Hi, > It would be possible to make it impossible to close the console window > that GLib opens, by removing the close button from it. Then users > would know just to minimize it if they aren't interested in the > messages. See my last comment in bug #141102. It's often a habitual thing for window

Re: [Gimp-developer] New Image dialog usability bug

2004-09-11 Thread David Neary
Hi jimmac, Jakub Steiner wrote: > It's an interesting task that indeed exposes a problem of the current > UI. I have one usage pattern that would suffer if we implement the > behavior you propose though: > > 1) Select A4 from templates. Millimeters is selected as a unit (makes > sense). > 2) Chan

Re: [Gimp-developer] Console window on Win32

2004-09-11 Thread Alif Wahid
Hi Tor, I've played around with the g_set_print_handler and the g_log_set_handler functions and they certainly stop the console window from coming up when I use my custom handler to redirect the message to somewhere else. So it may well be a good way to give the user an option of redirecting these

Re: [Gimp-developer] New Image dialog usability bug

2004-09-11 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris
On Friday 10 September 2004 19:41, Kevin Cozens wrote: > Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > >Ok, just to drop my 2 cents in here: > > > >I think that changing the units on the new image dialog should not > >convert the numbers typed in, unless if explicitly desired. > > Just another thought. What

Re: [Gimp-developer] fonts

2004-09-11 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Sven Neumann writes: > The information given above may be appropriate for adding fonts to > your win32 system but it is irrelevant for GIMP on Win32. On Win32, fontconfig by default uses the Windows fonts directory, i.e. the same fonts that Windows uses itself. --tml _

Re: [Gimp-developer] New Image dialog usability bug

2004-09-11 Thread William Skaggs
On this issue I think I agree with Sven that the gain of reducing annoyance for new users does not offset the costs of (a) reducing the consistency of size-entry areas and (b) annoying the mass of existing users who know how it works and don't expect it to change. It's especially bad to change thi

Re: [Gimp-developer] New Image dialog usability bug

2004-09-11 Thread David Neary
Hi Bill, William Skaggs wrote: > On this issue I think I agree with Sven that the gain of reducing > annoyance for new users does not offset the costs of (a) reducing > the consistency of size-entry areas and (b) annoying the mass of > existing users who know how it works and don't expect it to ch

Re: [Gimp-developer] New Image dialog usability bug

2004-09-11 Thread Nathan Summers
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 07:47:39 -0700, William Skaggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Remember, even moving a menu entry to a more logical place is > annoying to many people. We don't want to offend our most > loyal customers! Of course, since this dialog is already radically different from how it l