[Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.6.3

2008-11-22 Thread Sven Neumann
GIMP 2.6.3 is another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. The source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/downloads/#mirrors. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads s

Re: [Gimp-developer] Why does growning the selection rounds the corners?

2008-11-22 Thread jcupitt
2008/11/22 Martin Nordholts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > code. I think your use case makes sense and one way to support it would > be to add a check box to the Grow Selection dialog that if checked would > only grow the selection in the x and y axis. Another option would be to let people specify the mor

Re: [Gimp-developer] Why does growning the selection rounds the corners?

2008-11-22 Thread Martin Nordholts
Martin Nordholts wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Could you add this feature? >> > > I think your use case makes sense and one way to support it would > be to add a check box to the Grow Selection dialog that if checked would > only grow the selection in the x and y axis. > > - Martin

Re: [Gimp-developer] Why does growning the selection rounds the corners?

2008-11-22 Thread Martin Nordholts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > > Could anyone tell me why growing the selection rounds the corners? > Hi! Because the algorithm is generic and does not attempt to retain any special geometrical properties of the selection. Keep in mind that the selection is essentially just a channel.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Block user interaction while a plug-in is running?

2008-11-22 Thread jcupitt
2008/11/20 Guillermo Espertino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A better solution (and I think that the porting to GEGL is aiming in > this direction, among other things) would be to put the filter and the > transformations in a sort of queue, so the interaction is never blocked > and the processes are stack

[Gimp-developer] Why does growning the selection rounds the corners?

2008-11-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, Could anyone tell me why growing the selection rounds the corners? Many, many times I just want to grow rectangle selection by some pixels and don't want it to be rounded. So I have to always take the rectangle selection tool and adjust them. Could you add this feature? ___