Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] ]> gimp 2 includes a menubar, thank goodness! ]I like the menu but it would be even better to make ]some sort of scroll in the menu. What am I talking ]about? ]Say I have a small imagethe menu gets cut in half. ]If there was a way to make that menu scrollabe so ]everything can be seen, it wo

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread Alan Horkan
> > Photoshop does have some vector tools... of course we have SVG which > > Illustrator also uses... > > GIMP has a path tool which is essentially a vectors tool. It could > need some other vector shapes though... of course we have SVG which is > the standard format for storing paths in GIMP 2.0.

Re: [Gimp-developer] first impressions of GIMP 2.0

2004-10-25 Thread Jakub Friedl, adresa do konferenci
> One of the tools that I absolutely love is the > "dynamic" shortcut tool. If you set this in the I agree. This function boosts productivity by 1000%. And certainly the function I miss most when forced to work with Photoshop. ___ Gimp-developer mailing

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread Gezim Hoxha
> gimp 2 includes a menubar, thank goodness! I like the menu but it would be even better to make some sort of scroll in the menu. What am I talking about? Say I have a small imagethe menu gets cut in half. If there was a way to make that menu scrollabe so everything can be seen, it would be ni

Re: [Gimp-developer] first impressions of GIMP 2.0

2004-10-25 Thread Gezim Hoxha
One of the tools that I absolutely love is the "dynamic" shortcut tool. If you set this in the preferences, then go to one menu highlight a tool then just press a letter, this letter will become the new shortcut of the tool and it's sweet :) (I should say that it took a while to discover this nice

Re: [Gimp-developer] first impressions of GIMP 2.0

2004-10-25 Thread Jakub Friedl, adresa do konferenci
> only case where you'd need 300dpi - so I don't understand why this > option is there, without CMYK color. > AFAIK, the CMYK and support for other colour spaces is under development. The keyword is GEGL library. You are right, this is really something current versions lack a lot. But working with

Re: [Gimp-developer] first impressions of GIMP 2.0

2004-10-25 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> > I'm actually (sadly) testing the ;atest Winblows version (Win ME) Eek. If you have to use Windows, please at least test it on a Windows version that is a "real" operating system. I mean Windows 2000 or XP. There are many limitations in Windows Me. It might be a bit better that Windows 98, but

Re: [Gimp-developer] first impressions of GIMP 2.0

2004-10-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "miriam clinton (iriXx)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Rect Select Options though is a feature that few designers need > in a menu - it would be better to use a custom Color swatch tool - > which is invaluable. I don't understand. Would you mind to elaborate on this? > The Colormap utte

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "miriam clinton (iriXx)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Photoshop does have some vector tools... of course we have SVG which > Illustrator also uses... GIMP has a path tool which is essentially a vectors tool. It could need some other vector shapes though... of course we have SVG which is the

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread Alan Horkan
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: > Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:12:46 -0700 > From: "miriam clinton (iriXx)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI > > thanks Sven and Carol for your answers... I'll get back to you with more > details a

[Gimp-developer] first impressions of GIMP 2.0

2004-10-25 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
ok... i have to retract a lot of what i said - theres stackable and snapped menus - although it'd be preferable if they were a little smaller (for those of us using 1024x768 - theres not a lot of room to drag and drop other menus underneath (although most features are covered by tabs). The prob

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread Jakub Friedl, adresa do konferenci
...and the reason behind that : Q: Why the split from Sodipodi? Mainly just differences in objectives and in development approach. Inkscape's objective is to be a fully compliant SVG editor, whereas for Sodipodi SVG is more a means-to-an-end of being a powerful vector illustration tool. Inkscape'

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread Kevin Cozens
miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: i'm familiar with sodipodi - its close, but no banana... needs a lot of work, but i'd like to help there too... havent seen inkscape yet - is it new? IIRC, inkscape started life as an off-shoot of sodipodi but it is now a separate project. The answer to the first que

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
Jakub Friedl, adresa do konferenci wrote: i still cannot understand why you call fireworks a vector only tool. last tim e i used it was primarily a raster editor. and if i look at its homepage http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/ it still seems to be capable raster graphic aplication (with

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread Jakub Friedl, adresa do konferenci
> but a good vector only tool is very important, with vector-to-web > features... (like Fireworks) i still cannot understand why you call fireworks a vector only tool. last tim e i used it was primarily a raster editor. and if i look at its homepage http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/ it

[Gimp-developer] Flash (was Re: gimp GUI)

2004-10-25 Thread GSR - FR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2004-10-24 at 1721.39 -0400): > And I also have a libswf on my Debian machine. A quick apt-get search: [...] > It appears that openoffice has some SWF support ... Based in ming library http://f4l.sourceforge.net/. It, and other interesting info is listed in http://en.wikipedia.

Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp GUI

2004-10-25 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
hi Gezim, yes, i'm going to download gimp2 now... and indeed, Flash and vector graphics are badly needed for designers to migrate - but i'm not sure who to contact except you guys :) Photoshop does have some vector tools... of course we have SVG which Illustrator also uses... its the slicing

Re: [Gimp-docs] Re: [Gimp-developer] Help system

2004-10-25 Thread Daniel Egger
On 24.10.2004, at 20:36, Sven Neumann wrote: The help system has always been designed that way. The problem was with the way the help pages get generated from the DocBook sources. During that process empty pages were generated instead of no pages. Thus, the language fallback in the help system coul

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help with gimp directory structure

2004-10-25 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:13:54 +0200, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Jean-Sebastien Senecal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm working on an open-source software for real-time mix-medias, > > similar to Puredata. We've started using part of the Gimp code for > > im