RE: [Gimp-developer] file chooser performance

2005-02-14 Thread Austin Donnelly
a few people have claimed that opening the file chooser dialog would take a considerable amount of time if it is opened in a directory with lots of files. Also check when opening the file chooser dialog on an NFS or other remote filesystem isn't too bad, even with small number of files. In my

RE: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool

2004-12-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:gimp- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Skaggs Sent: 06 December 2004 19:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Scissors tool [...] I looked at the code not too long ago, and my

RE: [Gimp-developer] Re: 2.2 splash screen competition

2004-12-02 Thread Austin Donnelly
My favourite so far is the colourful paint pots by Metin Amiroff: http://www.gimp.org/contest/gallery.cgi?display=imagename=20041202090612748 6 Or maybe the paint tubes by Andreas Nilsson, I can't decide: http://www.gimp.org/contest/gallery.cgi?display=imagename=20041202090610747 8 I think

RE: [Gimp-developer] new file-new dialog

2004-05-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
Austin Donnelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Add an easy way to change the image's unit. It's quite well hidden in the Image Scale dialog right now. With the changes proposed above, changing the image unit could become a more frequent task, so it should be easily accessible

RE: [Gimp-developer] Dithering

2004-01-20 Thread Austin Donnelly
That's because the screen display code doesn't smooth the image when it scales it, for speed reasons. Dedicated viewing programs can afford to do a better job showing the image because they won't be re-drawing it quite so often (imaging panning around the image while editing it - you'd like that

[Gimp-developer] jobs for the boys: RIP coders wanted

2003-11-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
Hi GIMPers, I know this is a little off-topic, but it's definitely interesting to anyone looking for a job in the pre-press software industry. Ben Hobbs (from Idealpeople, a recruitment firm) is looking for people with experience of RIPs, and other pre-press issues. I've put a message from him

RE: [Gimp-developer] PS vs. PDF

2003-08-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
Are you sure it hasn't been updated for so long? Take a look at the PostScript 3 reference manual. OK, 5 years instead of 6 (1998). But in today's world, that's a HUGE time... What you're looking at is a mature standard. Surely that's a good thing! If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

RE: [Gimp-developer] Portable XCF

2003-08-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
Tor wrote: [filesystem within a file] It's a nice idea in theory, but makes it quite hard to write a parser for. MS Word files (until recently) were basically FAT filesystems, which makes it easy to handle under Windows but harder to parse when you don't have a convenient DLL to do it lying

RE: [Gimp-developer] Re: Portable XCF

2003-08-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
Yes, try it with dd and cp (GNU version only?): dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zero-test count=1000 cp --sparse=always /tmp/zero-test /tmp/zero-sparse ls -l /tmp/zero-test /tmp/zero-sparse du -cs /tmp/zero-test /tmp/zero-sparse [...] What I do not know is how many fs support it, and if they can

RE: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon RFC: Portable XCF

2003-08-14 Thread Austin Donnelly
How is the serialization done then, just a raw 32-bit IEEE float dump with a predefined endianness? 64-bit doubles just as easy? Yup. The real problem comes when your code is running on a system without IEEE float support, and you need to manually convert from IEEE float to your local

RE: [Gimp-developer] Gradient dithering

2003-07-18 Thread Austin Donnelly
Conceptually I like this, and the gotchas are toggleable via the UI. I like the idea too. It should be checked in and turned on by default. Austin ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Gimp-developer] useless plead for honest evrsion numbers :)

2003-06-18 Thread Austin Donnelly
(Yes, I like the text tool, I etxremely like the undo history.. but that is all nothing major). But the undo history is not a new 1.3 feature, it was introduced by me in one of the 1.1 testing series and has thus been in all the 1.2 versions. Austin

RE: [Gimp-developer] Tool API [LONG!]

2003-04-03 Thread Austin Donnelly
[...] the_gimp should not be accessed directly, and tile_manager is probably too ugly for tool developers with weak stomachs. Not clear; iscissors uses a custom tile manager which supplies tiles containing gradient/direction information. This way, the expensive calculation of this info is

RE: [Gimp-developer] Why modules interface?

2003-01-22 Thread Austin Donnelly
I want to add some features (changeing the gamma of the display ...) to filmgimp. There already is a module called cdisplay-gamma which can do this. You don't need to write any code, just use this pre-existing module. However, I'll still answer the rest of your questions: I liked to

[Gimp-developer] FW: Patch for wishlist entry 75558

2003-01-10 Thread Austin Donnelly
Can someone please look into this patch I've been submitted? Ta, Austin ---BeginMessage--- Title: Patch for wishlist entry 75558 Hi, I wrote a patch for the bugzilla entry 75558, curve tool does not remember old values. I wrote a patch for this a while ago, but it seems to be removed

RE: [Gimp-developer] List of changes for the future 1.2.4 release

2002-12-19 Thread Austin Donnelly
Saving .xcf on full filesystem hangs GIMP http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101340 doesn't seem overly complicated since there's only one call to fwrite() in app/xcf.c which needs to have its return_value to be checked. The larger part of the problem is to propate the error up

RE: [Gimp-developer] how does undo currently work

2002-11-01 Thread Austin Donnelly
I wrote some docs about the undo system's operation; try looking around in the doc/ subdirectory. I can't vouch for how accurate they are now, but I don't think the system has changed much since I added the undo history feature. Austin ___

RE: [Gimp-developer] 16 bit gray images not handled properly

2002-10-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
I wrote a patch which added a warning, but subsequently it was decide that not enough people would understand or care what was going on. Austin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:gimp-developer- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Roland Roberts Sent: 14 October 2002

Re: [Gimp-developer] What to do when zooming in? (bug #79384)

2002-04-23 Thread Austin Donnelly
On , 23 Apr 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: ack. Who writes the patch? Sorry, not me - lack of time :( Austin ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Size entry widgets..

2002-04-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Wednesday, 27 Mar 2002, Øyvind Kolås wrote: * My workflow for posters that will be printed on a laser printer is: - make a new grayscale image with the same size ratio as A4/A3 - fullfil the design - scale the image up to the full res of the

RE: [Gimp-developer] amp photoshop curves

2002-04-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Friday, 29 Mar 2002, regis rampnoux wrote: You can load the files with the plug-ins amp4gimp which is in the registery. (I found yesterday a bug but you can use it ...) There is no save option at this moment. If the amp format is simple enough, why don't we just make it the default format

[Gimp-developer] image-title-format etc

2002-02-22 Thread Austin Donnelly
get your hands on GIMP-1.3.3 and add %L to the image-title-format or image-status-format strings. There you go. Since we now have a number of these *-format strings, has someone taken the time to generalise my code for image-title-format? Austin ___

Re: [Gimp-developer] Plugin icons in menus

2002-02-22 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Sunday, 17 Feb 2002, Maurits Rijk wrote: Will it be possible for plug-ins in 1.3.x/1.4 to put their own neat little icons in front of their menu entry? I guess this would mean some minor enhancements to the plugin API :) While technically this is possible, I don't think its a good idea

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Menus, keybinding et al, first draft

2002-02-22 Thread Austin Donnelly
On , 17 Feb 2002, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: As any looked into how all this will work with different window managers? What window managers grab what keys and can the window managers easily be configured to use alt if gimp isn't using it? It is important to check this since we will

Re: [Gimp-developer] image-title-format etc

2002-02-22 Thread Austin Donnelly
On , 22 Feb 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: get your hands on GIMP-1.3.3 and add %L to the image-title-format or image-status-format strings. There you go. Since we now have a number of these *-format strings, has someone taken the time to generalise my code for image-title-format?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop brushes

2002-02-13 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Wednesday, 13 Feb 2002, Maurits Rijk wrote: I noticed that it's pretty easy to write a plug-in to import Photoshop brushes. There seem to be lots of those freely around on the net. First question: is this plug-in already available (couldn't find it in the registry) and secondly: if not,

Re: [Gimp-developer] EXIF information in JPEG files

2002-02-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
On , 7 Feb 2002, Sven Neumann wrote: exactly. If there's a need to improve the current parasites, let's do that now. I could imagine that a more hierachical structure might help, but I'd like to see a real usage case before we consider doing such a change. Is the EXIF data such a usage case?

Re: [Gimp-developer] intelligent scissors

2002-01-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tuesday, 15 Jan 2002, Martin Waitz wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:37:13PM +, Austin Donnelly wrote: I think I was the last person to substantially modify the iscissors code. I read the paper you reference above, and indeed it was quite helpful. However, note

Re: [Gimp-developer] intelligent scissors

2002-01-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tuesday, 15 Jan 2002, Martin Waitz wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:08:28AM +, Austin Donnelly wrote: I did test-implement it. #define USE_LAPLACIAN and recompile to see if it makes much difference. I couldn't see a visual different, only it was a bit slower. well, then your

Re: [Gimp-developer] intelligent scissors

2002-01-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
1.2.2 definitely has the USE_LAPLACIAN code in, but it is not enabled. The current developer head in CVS doesn't. I'm assuming that as part of porting iscissors.c to the new tool model someone (Mitch/Sven?) took the opportunity to strip out unused code. This is a perfectly reasonable thing to

Re: [Gimp-developer] intelligent scissors

2002-01-15 Thread Austin Donnelly
On , 15 Jan 2002, Michael Natterer wrote: I stripped out the USE_LAPLACIAN part not because it was unused but because my impression was that it could not work: gimp-1-2/app/iscissors.c has the following piece of code: #ifdef USE_LAPLACIAN static gint laplacian [9] = { -1, -1, -1,

Re: [Gimp-developer] intelligent scissors

2002-01-14 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Monday, 14 Jan 2002, Martin Waitz wrote: anyone working at the iscissor tool at the moment? i would like to implement some of the features described in http://www.cs.orst.edu/~enm/publications/GMIP_98/seg_scissors.html as a work for an university course. I think I was the last person

Re: [Gimp-developer] XCF support added to ImageMagick

2001-12-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tuesday, 4 Dec 2001, Seth Burgess wrote: I think if you make sure to check the version of the XCF, this will be exceptionally useful to users of ImageMagick. Its not at all an uncommon request on gimp-user or the gimp newsgroup. Batch conversion is still best handled via the

Re: [Gimp-developer] 1.2 Bug selection (swatters ready!)

2001-12-01 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Friday, 30 Nov 2001, Dave Neary wrote: 63411 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63411 NEW Eraser Tool behaves wrongly when toggling. Seems pretty accessible... 35489 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35489 NEW crop tool doesn't always change canvas size

Re: [Gimp-developer] Thoughts on CMYK, and getting it without implementing it.

2001-11-27 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tuesday, 27 Nov 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Marc) (A.) (Lehmann ) wrote: Anyways, I had some conversation with two graphics designers about CMYK problems and the Gimp at the Systems, and I think it might be worthwhile to read the following sometimes true observations. Remember, they are

Re: [Gimp-developer] Grain Erase plug-in

2001-10-25 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Wednesday, 24 Oct 2001, Jerome Dumonteil wrote: I've released a plug-in for gimp (main goal is to remove black isolated pixels on dirty scanned document). Any comment welcome. (However I don't think it has enough interest to be in the main gimp release, so don't consider its name and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Fix for the gif plugin.

2001-09-09 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Sunday, 9 Sep 2001, David Odin wrote: I've two question about this plugin: - why gifload and gif are kept separated, when, for most image formats, the loader and the saver is in the same plugin? Patent reasons: you need a Unisys LZW compression patent licence in order to use the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Auto save?

2001-08-08 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Tuesday, 7 Aug 2001, Michael Soibelman wrote: Well, one of those plug in crashes and it's all gone. ??? Please let us know which plugin crashing causes the entire GIMP to crash. This is a very serious bug. The whole point of plugins is exactly to isolate the main GIMP program from

Re: [Gimp-developer] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 1.2.2

2001-07-27 Thread Austin Donnelly
On , 27 Jul 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.2/v1.2.2/ This release fixes a large bunch of bugs, adds a couple of new translations and features a complete rewrite of the help pages. Oops. It doesn't build out of the box. D'oh!!! [...] creating

Re: [Gimp-developer] 1.2 Bug Hunting

2001-06-20 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Wednesday, 20 Jun 2001, Dave Neary wrote: The default Made with the GIMP comment is hard coded into plug-ins/common/xbm.c - and presumably into the others too. It seems to me that the easiest solution would be to include gtkrc in the relevant plug-ins, and do a read on the gimprc when

Re: [Gimp-developer] show jpeg preview time

2001-06-20 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Wednesday, 20 Jun 2001, Iccii wrote: I'm using the GIMP to creat image files for my web site. So, I want to know how much time is necessary for loading the images which is saved by jpeg or other file type. It's useful to show loading time in jpeg saving dialog. See attachment file if you

Re: [Gimp-developer] handling of image comments (was 1.2 Bug Hunting)

2001-06-20 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Wednesday, 20 Jun 2001, Raphael Quinet wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: If we'd fix this by making gimp_image_new() attach a default comment parasite (just like it sets the default resolution), all images touched by The GIMP would get the default comment unless they

Re: [Gimp-developer] Big Fat Piggy Gimp

2001-06-11 Thread Austin Donnelly
Layer deletes are a little funky: they don't get deleted when they are removed from the layer list, since they get pushed on the undo stack. They get deleted when the undo information is freed, ie when it expires or when it is on the redo stack and an new action is pushed on the undo stack, thus

Re: [Gimp-developer] paper sizes [request for comments]

2001-06-09 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Friday, 8 Jun 2001, David Monniaux wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Austin Donnelly wrote: But, we're talking about *paper* here. A4 for me is the same size as A4 for another user, surely? There are only a limited number of paper sizes in existence, and they should all be available

Re: [Gimp-developer] paper sizes [request for comments]

2001-06-08 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Friday, 8 Jun 2001, David Monniaux wrote: I've been trying to contact libpaper's author, but to no avail so far. libpaper is old (1996) and does not offer per-user paper formats. Furthermore it does not allow interactive modifications. But, we're talking about *paper* here. A4 for me

Re: [Gimp-developer] adding a tool

2001-06-07 Thread Austin Donnelly
On , 7 Jun 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: Jonas Geduldig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm interested in adding a tool for detecting and cutting out contour regions. Intelligent Scissors ?! Yup, this sounds a lot like intelligent scissors. Read the comments at the top of app/iscissors.c I

Re: [Gimp-developer] shrunk display

2001-06-02 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Friday, 1 Jun 2001, David Monniaux wrote: I would like to know the precise functions that handle the shrinking of the image for display. I would like to code them in MMX. What leads you to suspect that scaling the image for display is a bottleneck? Last time I looked, it was much

Re: [Gimp-developer] [patch] unbelievable speedup for bumpmap...

2001-04-06 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Thursday, 5 Apr 2001, Georg Acher wrote: I just looked into bumpmap.c and tried to figure out if it can profit from blocking and played a bit with the code. It seems that there is some major (performance) problem with the gimp_pixel_rgn_get/set_row-calls in Gimp 1.2.1. The original

Re: [gimp-devel] [Gimp-developer] preview icons

2001-02-22 Thread Austin Donnelly
On , 22 Feb 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: But most (all?) window managers scale them down to a tiny 16x16. Not mine: fvwm 1.24r IMO the whole thing should go away, but if people like it, please make a preferences option to enable it. I think it's a good idea. Austin