[Gimp-developer] Introduction / Color layer modes

2010-08-03 Thread Rupert Weber
Hello there, recently I got sucked somehow into supplying a small patch for GIMP (all I ever meant to do was to report a bug...). -- and thank you to Sven, who remained very friendly and patient, despite me getting it all wrong the first cpuple attempts. So now that I licked blood I wanted to g

Re: [Gimp-developer] Introduction / Color layer modes

2010-08-03 Thread Rupert Weber
[ Ok, so I'm daring to repost my previuos mail again, which obviosly didn't make it...] I wrote a patch that might help fix the situation. First, I don't consider the current Color layer mode as broken. It is just different from what many users will expect. What I do consider broken, though, i

Re: [Gimp-developer] Introduction / Color layer modes

2010-08-03 Thread Sven Neumann
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 18:46 +0200, Rupert Weber wrote: > About how to store in XCF: > The obviuos choice seems to be to bump up the version to 3, which is > what the patch currently does if one of the new modes is used. > > That might not be good, though: > - Older versions will simply refuse to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Introduction / Color layer modes

2010-08-03 Thread Charlie De
> From: Rupert Weber > > I wrote a patch that might help fix the situation. > Thanks so much for working on this! I'm one of the people who'd greatly appreciate the fix. In fact, your effort is more than I dared hope for, I was resigned to the idea that the GEGL route was the only option

Re: [Gimp-developer] Introduction / Color layer modes

2010-08-03 Thread Alexia Death
On Tuesday, August 03, 2010 23:04:09 Charlie De wrote: > > From: Rupert Weber > > > > I wrote a patch that might help fix the situation. > > Thanks so much for working on this! I'm one of the people who'd greatly > appreciate the fix. In fact, your effort is more than I dared hope for, I > wa

Re: [Gimp-developer] Introduction / Color layer modes

2010-08-03 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 08/03/2010 10:04 PM, Charlie De wrote: > For that reason I've previously proposed what to me > seems to be the cheapest solution - offer the fix as a compile option in an > incremental bug release in the stable branch. Hi, Since this is the second time you mention this, I feel I have to step i

Re: [Gimp-developer] Introduction / Color layer modes

2010-08-03 Thread Rupert Weber
On 08/03/2010 10:04 PM, Charlie De wrote: > [...] For that reason I've previously proposed what to me > seems to be the cheapest solution - offer the fix as a compile option in an > incremental bug release in the stable branch. But if someone compiles from source anyway, it's probably easier to j