[Gimp-developer] Meaning of delay in screenshot plugin

2007-01-27 Thread Steve Stavropoulos
I found myself today in the need to take a screenshot of a window with an open menu. I selected Acquire->Screenshot in gimp and in the dialog I chose a delay of 5 seconds, to give me time to open the menu after I selected the window to grab. But, after a while I figured out that gimp first waits f

Re: [Gimp-developer] Meaning of delay in screenshot plugin

2007-01-27 Thread Clarence Risher
The screenshot delay behaves exactly as I have always expected it to. If you select immediately and then wait 5 seconds, how do you change virtual desktops to get to the window in question without 'accidentally' selecting your pager? Then again, I have often desired a feature do what you propose h

Re: [Gimp-developer] Meaning of delay in screenshot plugin

2007-01-27 Thread Akkana Peck
> On 1/27/07, Steve Stavropoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I chose a delay of 5 seconds, to give me time to open the menu > > after I selected the window to grab. But, after a while I figured out > > that gimp first waits for the 5 seconds to pass and then gives you the > > chance to select th

[Gimp-developer] Changing FGcolor during painting

2007-01-27 Thread David Gowers
I just noticed -- the foreground color can currently be changed during painting, and the change immediately takes effect -- old paint is still the old color, new paint uses the new color (even for the ink tool); You must trigger the plugin to change the FGcolor before you start painting, though. W

Re: [Gimp-developer] Meaning of delay in screenshot plugin

2007-01-27 Thread David Gowers
On 1/28/07, Akkana Peck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Meanwhile: you can still grab a menu by shooting the entire screen with a delay, then cropping it afterward ... arduous but better than nothing. Or use 2.2. :-) With a fairly simple plugin, it would be easy to auto crop -- just click on the