Re: [Gimp-developer] using the GIMP donations

2007-11-22 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Nov 22, 2007 9:58 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote: > For quite some time I have thought about setting up a system that would > allow donors to donate money to a specific feature, e.g. donate money to > implement a Polygonal Selection Tool. The money in this Polygonal > Selection Tool Pool would even

[Gimp-developer] New option for the fill tool (feature suggestion/request)

2007-11-22 Thread Shin Diggar
Sorry, I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't know how to do this myself but I'd like to suggest a new feature for the fill tool. How about an option to use the cursor position as a start point for tiling fill-patterns rather than the top left corner of the layer? Perhaps this could be greyed-out

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option for the fill tool (feature suggestion/request)

2007-11-22 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Hi Shin, I'd hardly find this useful but for some very specific patterns. Instead, I'd suggest you tried using layers and layer masks in your workflow, more or less like this: once you select the area to be filled, create an empty layer, create a layer mask on it, choose "from selection" (an

Re: [Gimp-developer] finalizing the task list

2007-11-22 Thread Chris Mohler
On Nov 22, 2007 1:03 AM, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 18:32 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2007 7:26 PM, Chris Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does this sound reasonable? Is there anything I missed? Any volunteers > > > > to work on th

Re: [Gimp-developer] New option for the fill tool (feature suggestion/request)

2007-11-22 Thread Martin Nordholts
Shin Diggar wrote: > Sorry, I'm not a programmer so I wouldn't know how to do this myself but I'd > like to suggest a new feature for the fill tool. > > How about an option to use the cursor position as a start point for tiling > fill-patterns rather than the top left corner of the layer? Perhap

Re: [Gimp-developer] using the GIMP donations

2007-11-22 Thread Martin Nordholts
Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 07:58 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > >> For quite some time I have thought about setting up a system that would >> allow donors to donate money to a specific feature, e.g. donate money to >> implement a Polygonal Selection Tool. The money in t

Re: [Gimp-developer] using the GIMP donations

2007-11-22 Thread William Skaggs
From: Martin Nordholts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >The administrative overhead would fall on me to the extent possible, and >as long as patches are GPL and taxes etc are handled, what legal >problems would there be? Maybe these problems are bigger than I >currently see The problems are bigger than you

Re: [Gimp-developer] some gimply thoughts

2007-11-22 Thread GSR - FR
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2007-11-22 at 1544.46 +1030): > Hi Liam, > > On Nov 22, 2007 9:45 AM, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Evidence that auto levels loses details -- > > take a photograph (or a scanned engraving, or whatever) and open > > Levels, and press autl. Note that the l

Re: [Gimp-developer] using the GIMP donations

2007-11-22 Thread saulgoode
> Martin Nordholts wrote: > > But I still can't see why it would be a bad thing to allow donors to > donate money to specific features and what legal problems that would > then arise. > > The administrative overhead would fall on me to the extent possible, and > as long as patches are GPL and taxes

Re: [Gimp-developer] some gimply thoughts

2007-11-22 Thread David Gowers
On Nov 23, 2007 6:03 AM, GSR - FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2007-11-22 at 1544.46 +1030): > > Hi Liam, > > > > On Nov 22, 2007 9:45 AM, Liam R E Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Evidence that auto levels loses details -- > > > take a photograph (or a scanned e

[Gimp-developer] OpenPalette Implementation.

2007-11-22 Thread Sandman
Hi, I would like to ask for the development team's consideration for implementing the OpenPalette format for their palettes. OpenPalette is really hoping for a medium with interoperability and flexibility. The file format is XML-based; there's a DTD and XSD already written and ready for busines

Re: [Gimp-developer] OpenPalette Implementation.

2007-11-22 Thread saulgoode
> Hi, I would like to ask for the development team's consideration for > implementing the OpenPalette format for their palettes. > > OpenPalette is really hoping for a medium with interoperability and > flexibility. The file format is XML-based; there's a DTD and XSD already > written and ready for

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

2007-11-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 08:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I find it rather arrogant to presume that those who can code are the only > ones who can contribute to development and as a consequence anyone who can > code is also an authority on graphic design and UI implementation. I have

Re: [Gimp-developer] finalizing the task list

2007-11-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 10:55 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: > OK. Should these tasks be added perhaps? > http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/ToDo They should be considered, and as far as I can see, this has happened. But they don't belong on the task list unless we decide that they should go there. This

Re: [Gimp-developer] using the GIMP donations

2007-11-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 18:12 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > But I still can't see why it would be a bad thing to allow donors to > donate money to specific features and what legal problems that would > then arise. What would be the advantage if we allowed it? I can only see disadvantages if

Re: [Gimp-developer] OpenPalette Implementation.

2007-11-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 20:18 -0800, Sandman wrote: > Hi, I would like to ask for the development team's consideration for > implementing the OpenPalette format for their palettes. The format seems to be rather limited and doesn't cover the needs of modern graphics applications. On the Create m