Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-09 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 04:03:51 +, Karl Günter Wünsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you suggest that the GIMP is changing the orientation tag when it is loading the image. This is mandatory according to the EXIF specification. A program that supports EXIF and wants to display the image

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Schumacher
Von: Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is mandatory according to the EXIF specification. Just as a side note: it's Exif, not EXIF. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format Not really important for the discussion, but I do suggest that we do it right from the

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap: metadata and jpeg plug-in enhancements

2007-11-09 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Friday 09 November 2007, Raphaël Quinet wrote: No, that's wrong. And that's one of the reasons why I want to remove this confusing question. The EXIF standard defines precisely the list of tags that must be updated and the list of tags that must be copied unchanged. Unfortunately, older

[Gimp-developer] Problems using some API functions

2007-11-09 Thread Dani Perez
Hi, I am trying to use some functions of the application API, for example: gimp_text_layer_new gimp_image_get_by_ID I have included in my plug-in code the following two header files: #include libgimp/gimp.h #include libgimp/gimpui.h But I am still getting a compilation error saying

Re: [Gimp-developer] Requests for curves for photo retouching

2007-11-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:02 +0100, Andrea Olivotto wrote: - Please, a more dense curve. Better if user can select 4 or 8 lines. It would be nice if you could explain why the current grid isn't dense enough and how exactly a more dense grid would be useful. - Please, draw in the

[Gimp-developer] Requests for curves for photo retouching

2007-11-09 Thread Andrea Olivotto
Hello to everyone! I'm Andrea from Italy, this is my first post. I'm an amateur photographer, and I'm using GIMP to retouch my photos. I wrote some articles in italian on the argument, and I'm here to suggest some hints for this beautyful program. Histogram: - It's an invaluable tool for

Re: [Gimp-developer] Problems using some API functions

2007-11-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:13 +0100, Dani Perez wrote: I am trying to use some functions of the application API, for example: gimp_text_layer_new gimp_image_get_by_ID You can't use the application API from your plug-in. This is the internal API that is used in the GIMP core. Sven

[Gimp-developer] XCF saving all state = no more temporary parasites

2007-11-09 Thread Raphaël Quinet
Here is a brain dump about XCF and state persistence. It is just food for thought and does not require immediate action for 2.6, except maybe for the handling of the flag GIMP_PARASITE_PERSISTENT: Some time ago, Peter mentioned that he would like the XCF file format to save all state associated

[Gimp-developer] 2.6 Roadmap: GEGL integration

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Natterer
Hey all, GIMP 2.6 will include some bits of GEGL, not the full-blown package with GEGL everywhere, but some selected spots that are easy to handle and unlikely to break anything in the planned short development cycle. The tentative plan is pretty simple: * write adapter/proxy functions/objects

Re: [Gimp-developer] Requests for curves for photo retouching

2007-11-09 Thread Andrea Olivotto
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:02 +0100, Andrea Olivotto wrote: - Please, a more dense curve. Better if user can select 4 or 8 lines. It would be nice if you could explain why the current grid isn't dense enough and how exactly a more dense grid would be useful. -

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF saving all state = no more temporary parasites

2007-11-09 Thread Raphaël Quinet
After the quick feedback that I got on IRC, I think that I should clarify a few things... If I understood correctly what Peter was suggesting some time ago, this was about making sure that the XCF files contain all the information necessary to continue your work in such a way that it would make

Re: [Gimp-developer] Requests for curves for photo retouching

2007-11-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, you might want to have a look at http://sven.gimp.org/misc/gimp-curves.png which is a screenshot of the Curves widget from SVN trunk. As you can see we already incorporated some of your suggestions. And of course the widget benefits a lot from being drawn with Cairo... All this is still open

Re: [Gimp-developer] 2.4 and how to continue from here

2007-11-09 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
A Monday 29 October 2007 16:24:11, Sven Neumann escreveu: I suggest that we keep brainstorming for the 2.6 roadmap for another week and then collect the ideas. It would be nice if we could end with a list of well-defined tasks. When that list is collected, I would like to discuss which of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Requests for curves for photo retouching

2007-11-09 Thread Andrea Olivotto
Sven Neumann wrote: you might want to have a look at http://sven.gimp.org/misc/gimp-curves.png which is a screenshot of the Curves widget from SVN trunk. As you can see we already incorporated some of your suggestions. And of course the widget benefits a lot from being drawn with Cairo...

Re: [Gimp-developer] Requests for curves for photo retouching

2007-11-09 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Nov 9, 2007 6:50 PM, Andrea Olivotto wrote: Will the Cairo libray be ported in Windows? Or is a strict Linux library? It's already ported and used by varios crossplatform applications for quite a while (e.g. Inkscape). Alexandre ___ Gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Requests for curves for photo retouching

2007-11-09 Thread jernej
On Friday, November 9, 2007, 16:50:58, Andrea Olivotto wrote: Will the Cairo libray be ported in Windows? Or is a strict Linux library? GTK+ has used Cairo since 2.8, which is why Windows 9x/ME support was dropped then. -- Jernej Simončič http://deepthought.ena.si/ If God had intended for

Re: [Gimp-developer] finishing the roadmap for 2.6 and beyond

2007-11-09 Thread Michael Grosberg
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:05 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, I'd say we close the submission of proposals for the roadmap at this point and proceed to the next step. Which is collecting the tasks that have been described and putting them into a list for further discussion. Do we have a

[Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmap items

2007-11-09 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi, Here is the list of proposed changes in 2.6 that Sven asked for: Tools - IWarp as tool (Tor) - finishing rectangle tools (Enselic) - full use of cairo for the select/crop tools (?) - add support for color jitter in the paint tools (Adrian Likins) - paint tools should support smudging as

Re: [Gimp-developer] Requests for curves for photo retouching

2007-11-09 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
It would be nice if the curves dialog becomes semi-transparent when user clicks image if the dialog overlays the image. Currently the dialog size is so large, than it is hard to preview the whole image with the dialog not overlaying it at 1024:768 monitor resolution. Some backward interaction

[Gimp-developer] Angled guides - was Re: 2.4 and how to continue from here

2007-11-09 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
A Friday 09 November 2007 13:01:06, você escreveu: Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:36 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: One other smallf eature I will want to add is the ability to add free- angled guides. I have this almost complete on my codebase, just .XCF saving for it is missing. I should

Re: [Gimp-developer] Angled guides - was Re: 2.4 and how to continue from here

2007-11-09 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Nov 9, 2007 7:54 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: My idea for UI is just writing some code for the rotate tool to be able to rotate guides, just as the move tool can move guides. i think that once tested this won't get in anyone's path and will be a little nice feature for GIMP. Arbitrary

Re: [Gimp-developer] finishing the roadmap for 2.6 and beyond

2007-11-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 18:31 +0200, Michael Grosberg wrote: I'll Group ideas by contributor and put the page in the wiki. I don't think we want to use the GIMP Wiki for this (or for anything else). The roadmap should eventually be put on www.gimp.org so we don't we just put it there from

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

2007-11-09 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 00:06 +0100, peter sikking wrote: Where we are back at the point where this is not likely going to be ever possible on all supported platforms using the toolkit that we use and will continue to use. I am used to development teams telling me 'can't do

Re: [Gimp-developer] Angled guides - was Re: 2.4 and how to continue from here

2007-11-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:54 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote: I had never added a UI for it - I add then through scripts. And except for bugs with the guides thenselves (which i ironed out as I developed then), I never had any side effect from using them. Snapping to these guides or

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF saving all state = no more temporaryparasites

2007-11-09 Thread William Skaggs
From: Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] So here is a short list of what I think makes sense to include in XCF files: - All image parasites and layer/drawable parasites. They should all be persistent - no reason to have exceptions. The problem is that when a parasite gets saved, it becomes

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF saving all state = no more temporary parasites

2007-11-09 Thread Raphaël Quinet
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 10:15:42 -0800, William Skaggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] - All image parasites and layer/drawable parasites. They should all be persistent - no reason to have exceptions. The problem is that when a parasite gets saved, it becomes

[Gimp-developer] GEGL is now being developed under LGPLv3+

2007-11-09 Thread Øyvind Kolås
From the ChangeLog: 2007-11-09 Øyvind Kolås [EMAIL PROTECTED] Upgraded GEGL from (L)GPLv2 to (L)GPLv3. The library itself and the operations are under LGPLv3 and the sample programs using the GEGL library are licensed under GPLv3. Copyright statements in all files

Re: [Gimp-developer] Angled guides

2007-11-09 Thread Tom Lechner
Hi, I've just sent in two gimp ui brainstorm pictures for angled guides to that gimp brainstorm blog, where casual comments are discouraged, so I thought I'd summarize here: 1. Angled Linear Guides Double click on a line defines a center of rotation. Drag anywhere else on the line, and the