[Gimp-developer] Enhancement - Diagonal line crop guide

2007-11-06 Thread Tim Jedlicka
(repost - got lost somewhere the first time) I stumbled upon this link describing the use of the Diagonal (45 degree diagonal from each corner of an image) as the optimum crop guide ("better" than rule-of-thirds or golden rule). http://www.diagonaalmethode.nl/ I hacked together a patch to add th

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-06 Thread gg
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:47:12 +0100, peter sikking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote: > >> I do take the hart of the matter [...] serious. > really, I did not mean "an adult male deer", > I meant 'the heart of the matter...' you probably also meant "seriously". I'm surprised an intelligent du

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection moving - is this a bug?

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Mohler
On Nov 3, 2007 1:19 AM, Martin Nordholts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Works fine fore me. Are you sure you are not just using weird Move Tool > Options? If not, please provide more details, like size of selection > before and after scaling and so on. Odd - after a few days, I can't reproduce it

[Gimp-developer] roadmap items from the UI team...

2007-11-06 Thread peter sikking
GIMPsters, I was away for a couple of days and I see that in the mean more task were volunteered that have an UI impact: * metadata stuff (jpeg dialog) * iWarp tool (right-on Tor!) * jitter and smudge and something about text (layers), that is not so trivial in the UI btw, text, svg and other ve

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-06 Thread peter sikking
Michael Grosberg wrote: > Very simple: Peter has a blog, right? and very occasionaly, he > posts something > relevant to the Gimp UI, such as the post about the print dialog. uhm, the print dialog stuff is for openPrinting. That project plots the future of printing for all linux desktop systems

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Grosberg
Alexandre Prokoudine gmail.com> writes: > > Solve the transparency problem, and the criticism will go away. > > You say what to do, but you don't say how. Very simple: Peter has a blog, right? and very occasionaly, he posts something relevant to the Gimp UI, such as the post about the print d

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-06 Thread peter sikking
I wrote: > I do take the hart of the matter [...] serious. really, I did not mean "an adult male deer", I meant 'the heart of the matter...' --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interactio

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-06 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: > So could we please stop talking about > some completely irrelevant article and instead deal with the actual > problem? Thank you. since I am responsible for this 'department', I do want to say something, but I'll keep it short. I do take the hart of the matter, which is behind that

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gdv, Vol 62, Issue 14 message 2

2007-11-06 Thread M Tieleman
You know, that is an excellent idea, but unfortunately aside from the brushes folder options, which I think are really needed, and pardon me if this is going a little offtopic, but the brushes themselves are still slow. If I draw a circle in gimp, no matter how I tweak the brush ( that includes spa

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-06 Thread jernej
On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 19:45:16, Michael Grosberg wrote: > Better yet, just put it in the program files folder. This is the Windows > "norm" for such files. No, it isn't. User's files belong to the user's profile directory - not just that, but you can't write to Program Files as a normal u

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Grosberg
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 15:21 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday, November 5, 2007, 21:38:52, Richard Hirner wrote: > > > What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: "Open brushes folder" > > which > > opens the appropriate folder with Explorer / Nautilus / whatever needed? > > Tha

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: my summary.

2007-11-06 Thread Guillermo Espertino
Roadmap will be closed by the end of this week, so I'd like to make a summary of the main issues I'd like to see fixed for 2.6 Since I'm not a coder, I just can give my user pov, so I'll try to be realistic and don't ask for too radical things, just changes to improve the existing tools. Please

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.6: user directory reorganization

2007-11-06 Thread jernej
On Monday, November 5, 2007, 21:38:52, Richard Hirner wrote: > What about an option somewhere in the GIMP menus: "Open brushes folder" which > opens the appropriate folder with Explorer / Nautilus / whatever needed? That would be one solution. -- < Jernej Simončič ><><><><>< http://deepthought.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Suggestions for 2.6: hopefully not very difficult

2007-11-06 Thread peter sikking
Sven Neumann wrote: > Michael Grosberg wrote: >> My second suggestion - I think it was discussed before - is to >> switch the >> functionality of the "add layer" button in the layers menu, at >> least as >> an option: >> click will create a new empty layer, shift-click will open the new >> l

Re: [Gimp-developer] problem (solved?) in gimp-plugin-template

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Schumacher
> Von: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > BTW, it would be nice if we could release an updated version of > gimp-plugin-template for GIMP 2.4. Any volunteers to update the template > in SVN? Here. I have to figure out why (some) third-party plug-ins don't find their translations on Win32 anyw

Re: [Gimp-developer] a first step towards Cairo drawing

2007-11-06 Thread peter sikking
Chris Mohler wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote: >> Currently we are drawing the rectangle using XOR. When we switch to >> Cairo this should probably change. But I am not entirely sure how to >> best draw a nice-looking outline that is visible on all images. >> Perhaps >> some of the artists out there c

Re: [Gimp-developer] problem (solved?) in gimp-plugin-template

2007-11-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 08:36 +, Carlo Baldassi wrote: > I have developed a GIMP plugin using the plugin template, and I have > been made aware of a problem in i18n support, which I think I solved: > the plugin name was not translated correctly in the menu. > > I think this is due to the f

[Gimp-developer] problem (solved?) in gimp-plugin-template

2007-11-06 Thread Carlo Baldassi
Hi, I have developed a GIMP plugin using the plugin template, and I have been made aware of a problem in i18n support, which I think I solved: the plugin name was not translated correctly in the menu. I think this is due to the fact that i18n is initialized in the run() function, while the plu

[Gimp-developer] problem (solved?) in gimp-plugin-template

2007-11-06 Thread Carlo Baldassi
Hi, I have developed a GIMP plugin using the plugin template, and I have been made aware of a problem in i18n support, which I think I solved: the plugin name was not translated correctly in the menu. I think this is due to the fact that i18n is initialized in the run() function, while the plu

Re: [Gimp-developer] Negative Press

2007-11-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 22:34 -0800, Valerie VK wrote: > Are there any plans for a "Future feature" page on the GIMP > website? You obviously completely missed that we are currently discussing the roadmap for 2.6 on this mailing-list. The goal is to get this task list published by the end of