Re: [Gimp-developer] Isn't this behaviour unintuative?

2011-06-30 Thread peter sikking
I wrote: I will update the spec now to formalise this. done, and it was not a one-liner. Martin (prime suspect for implementing the change): please do a careful diff in the wiki to see the changes. thanks, --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine

Re: [Gimp-developer] Isn't this behaviour unintuative?

2011-06-30 Thread peter sikking
Martin wrote: 2011/6/30 peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net: I will update the spec now to formalise this. done, and it was not a one-liner. Martin (prime suspect for implementing the change): please do a careful diff in the wiki to see the changes. It looks straightforward and I expect

Re: [Gimp-developer] Isn't this behaviour unintuative?

2011-06-28 Thread peter sikking
On Jun 28, 2011, at 11:35, SorinN wrote: But there was already Ctrl + Shift + E which bring up the dialog for export Ctrl + E was for overwrite without confirm. Probably the logical order was inverse - many peoples expecting Ctrl + E to bring up the export dialog, first of all,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Photoshop ?compatibility? mode

2011-02-02 Thread peter sikking
Alexia Death wrote: Well, on developer side there seems to be a consensus forming that this ps- menurc file should and will be removed from git and I personally agree. such enhancements should be maintained outside gimp. So most likely, once this is over you are furher away from what

Re: [Gimp-developer] New adjustment widgets

2011-01-07 Thread peter sikking
Cedric Sodhi wrote: I'd like to bring up an idea that does not seem too difficult to implement and that should replace the unusuable slider widgets for, say, brush size. If you are okay with that, I might implement it. The sliders are virtually useless because they cover a fixed range

Re: [Gimp-developer] New adjustment widgets

2011-01-07 Thread peter sikking
Thorsten Wilms wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 12:55 +0100, peter sikking wrote: http://mmiworks.net/test/decadepopup.png Aside of differences in labeling (of course not unimportant), it's the same concept as http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini9.5/basics/ladder right? vertically: yes, close

[Gimp-developer] brushes again...

2011-01-06 Thread peter sikking
GIMPsters, talking to Alexia today we came up with a matrix of different cases needing different cursor feedback: in one dimension: mouse up; mouse down + not moving; mouse down + moving in the other dimension: painting; touching up; textures/image brushes/ stamping multiplying this 3x3

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI enhancement patch from GIMP UI brainstorm blog

2011-01-05 Thread peter sikking
Bernhard Guillon wrote: I tried to show you why in my previous mail. I can only add that a developer plunking in a code change at users' request and then let users' feedback sort it out is the 'armpit of usability' (i.e. the worst possible). see: What is wrong about a high fidelity

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI enhancement patch from GIMP UI brainstorm blog

2011-01-04 Thread peter sikking
hi しげっち, I'm recently implementing a GUI features that is inspired by the ideas of the GIMP UI brainstorming. you do realise that the brainstorm is a 'sandbox' for ideas? the deal is that everything is OK within a brainstorm (so ideas keep flowing) but that is only _within_ the brainstorm.

Re: [Gimp-developer] GUI enhancement patch from GIMP UI brainstorm blog

2011-01-04 Thread peter sikking
. 2011年1月4日20:46 peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net: when making UI, one has to: 1) identify the issue 2) find the cause 3) evaluate everything (including brainstorm ideas) 4) make a solutions model 5) design the UI 6) develop it and although things go a bit jumbled every once in a while

Re: [Gimp-developer] unsharp mask

2010-12-09 Thread peter sikking
OK, now the interaction design input: yes, someone made a terrible mistake more than 20 years ago by taking a metaphor from the physical photo lab and using it in the digital software realm without taking the change of medium into account. this is a very common mistake, when metaphors are taken

[Gimp-developer] a reset...

2010-11-22 Thread peter sikking
GIMPsters, just FYI, but to escape out of a backlog of 641 GIMP devlist emails waiting for me with ever more not-so-trivial-as-one-thinks UI issues waiting for me, I had to set them all to read, and jump in again. on a more positive note, in order to get some UI work moving for GIMP again, I am

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread peter sikking
Lightning wrote: I don't agree with some of the product vision points as stated in the UI redesign wiki and by some developers (for example that GIMP is meant mainly for high end users and less for simple users - as we discussed on IRC yesterday) well, that is a tricky thing to say. It was

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-08-01 Thread peter sikking
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On 7/31/10, peter sikking wrote: so there is an explicit 'no' for GIMP as a web design tool. You probably meant web programming :) no I really meant the web design job: deciding how all information and interaction is gong to be represented on the page, how

Re: [Gimp-developer] html layers

2010-07-31 Thread peter sikking
bob wrote: Smashing magazine linked to an interesting blog entry, where John Nack discusses the possibility of HTML layers in photoshop. If I understand the gist of his proposition/fantasy, the idea is the ultimately his image editor would have a feature that can import, present and edit

Re: [Gimp-developer] Please fix Color and/or Value transfer mode

2010-07-28 Thread peter sikking
Rob Antonishen wrote: Would it not be simplest to add a corrected colour mode as a new mode, keeping the old one? Just call the old one Colour (legacy)? and give the new one a new internal mode number? yes it is, same for non-working overlay mode. There is no requirement to have back

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug Bug 568150 With 'Resize window on zoom', zoom focus does not work when window is of maximum size

2010-07-26 Thread peter sikking
xianghang liu wrote: I think this bug can be fixed by the attached patch. great. I trust that the solution is the right thing because Martin pointed out in the bug what should happen and where to repair it. I have checked Photoshop CS5 and found it has a similar behavior. uhm, can I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread peter sikking
Bill Skaggs wrote: The global popup menu is certainly useful; I have used it very often. The context menu for the text tool was introduced as part of on-canvas text editing. It was introduced because on-canvas editing could not work without it -- there was no reasonable way to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Help with new default resources in 2.8

2010-07-19 Thread peter sikking
hi all, the reason I talked myself into the position of 'maintainer of default resources' (is that a title like 'floor manager' at mcdonalds?) at the LGM is that I voiced concern over how they can either enhance or sabotage the product vision:

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-03 Thread peter sikking
Gino D wrote: Having said that, if there is no need to merge layers together, but you simply want to manage the pasted object as indipendent layer, then the optimal solution is to use the Paste as New Layer command rather than the Paste command, which actually generates floating selections.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-03 Thread peter sikking
Jason Simanek wrote: but in the majority of cases it will be in the 'wrong' position and it needs to be moved to be 'right'. Paste to new layer currently pastes the copied pixels in the top-left. I think Gino suggested that it be changed to 'centered'. It sounds like you are saying it

Re: [Gimp-developer] Gimp UX: Paste

2010-06-02 Thread peter sikking
Jason Simanek wrote: Has there been any discussion about doing away with the 'floating selection' quasi-layer that occurs after copy/pasting in Gimp? hey, what a coincidence. actually last weekend at lgm there was a meeting (joao, pippin and me) about giving Elle Yan's 'on-canvas tool' SoC

Re: [Gimp-developer] GSOC - On-canvas tool project tasks and plans - Google docs link

2010-05-25 Thread peter sikking
Elle Yan wrote: I am sending the tasks and plans of my GSOC project to the mailing list. It is a made public Google document: http://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1DESI4rzEoTe6dep_qPqcSJAklHdjGiw7VILuREftj3E it is good to see this overview, so I can see how wide plans are casting their

Re: [Gimp-developer] A background removal tool like the one in Office 2010

2010-05-16 Thread peter sikking
Someone Somebody wrote: I think a background removal tool like the one that exists in Office 2010 will be very useful in GIMP. for GIMP a one-trick-pony tool like that is not appropriate. for the level of use (high-end) that GIMP is tuned for, the combination of foreground selection tools,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-15 Thread peter sikking
Rob Antonishen wrote: I was reading the gimp vision again, and two things jumped out: - GIMP is easily user-extendable, by easy installation of plug-ins - GIMP should be easily extensible by the average user: one click-installation of plug-ins and was wondering if this could be implemented

Re: [Gimp-developer] Creating a new Layer

2010-05-06 Thread peter sikking
Thales img wrote: We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask a for a new layer a popup is opened asking Name, Width, Height, etc, for the new layer, for default the Width and Height values

Re: [Gimp-developer] GSoc - Brush Selector Widget

2010-05-05 Thread peter sikking
Zhenfeng Zhao wrote: Thank you for the quick feedback... now for the not so quick feedback... I think we want to have the 'from scratch' mode mutual exclusive with the 'from collection' mode. this separates nicely the 2 modes users are. this must be done by switching the mode at the top of

Re: [Gimp-developer] swimming in tabs

2010-05-01 Thread peter sikking
Martin wrote, it will not ship like this. I have problem with this attitude. Its not how open-source works. If its stable, you release it and then keep adding design and features in the next cycle. 2.8 has already taken too long. People who shoudn't be building Gimp from git are doing

Re: [Gimp-developer] swimming in tabs

2010-04-29 Thread peter sikking
Liam wrote: The single window mode has tabs, with a tab for each open image. well, temporarily. there are no tabs in the design. it will not ship like this. but it is good to find out that the trivial just put some tabs like firefox solution shows its weaknesses. --ps founder

Re: [Gimp-developer] GSoc - Brush Selector Widget

2010-04-18 Thread peter sikking
Zhenfeng Zhao wrote: I received a comment on my Gimp Gsoc proposal from Martin a couple hours ago. To answer Martin’s question, and think about what UI adjustments are needed for Brush Selector Widget, it may help to discuss here, to see whether my understanding is correct. After

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GSoC] Mentor Request from GNOME Outreach Program for Women

2010-04-13 Thread peter sikking
Michael Schumacher wrote: we've been approached on the #gimp channel by Marina Zhurakhinskaya from the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. She has helped GSoC applicants with their applications and is currently looking for a mentor for the following project: Full version (minus personal

Re: [Gimp-developer] GSOC - Free Transform Tool

2010-04-10 Thread peter sikking
Stephen McKeague wrote: what needs sorting out is that after some manipulation the transformation frame can be any kind of shape that can be made out of 4 corners connected by 4 straight lines, including a twisted bow tie type of shape. this general shape is then clipped by the viewport of

Re: [Gimp-developer] wiki down...

2010-03-29 Thread peter sikking
Alexia wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 00:11 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: So far no-one has approached me asking for the tarball that I prepared. Is there really no-one out there who's willing and capable to host this

Re: [Gimp-developer] GSOC - Free Transform Tool

2010-03-29 Thread peter sikking
Stephen McKeague wrote: this of course triggers a big update of the spec. there are also some rough edges in the spec that need to be defined: like when the frame is partially in view, or no edge of the frame is in view. On this note, could you please clarify for me where it says, Only

Re: [Gimp-developer] wiki down...

2010-03-29 Thread peter sikking
Sven wrote: As pointed out, spam shouldn't be a problem since the Wiki has a closed (and small) group of users and is not publicly editable. I'd prefer to have the Wiki hosted by someone who has been sticking around the GIMP project for a while. Someone who we all know as thrust-worthy.

Re: [Gimp-developer] GSOC - Free Transform Tool

2010-03-28 Thread peter sikking
Stephen McKeague wrote: My name is Stephen McKeague and I am very interested in implementing the Free Transform Tool in GIMP for this years Google Summer of Code, originally proposed by Martin Nordholts. The project information page seems to still be offline, so I would like to

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GSoC] About the idea: Basic gegl based paint tool

2010-03-27 Thread peter sikking
Jenny wrote: GEGL shipped an GUI application for test, with which user takes many OPs on the default image. But this application can not load images. I want to write a user-friendly GUI for GEGL as my GSoC project. I think this application should provide many drag-able blocks, where

Re: [Gimp-developer] Doubt in Google Summer Of Code Idea

2010-03-24 Thread peter sikking
Sven Neumann wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 21:30 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: The GIMP menu structure is a beast. But each item is well documented, in particular there are tooltips for most of them. The idea is to make the menu item labels and the descriptions of them searchable. It

Re: [Gimp-developer] wiki down...

2010-03-24 Thread peter sikking
Sven Neumann wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 23:11 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On 3/22/10, Sven Neumann wrote: Yes, it's down for a while already. I can't host this service any longer and already offered a backup on IRC for anyone who wants to take over. So far no one approached

[Gimp-developer] wiki down...

2010-03-22 Thread peter sikking
ehm guys, gui.gimp.org is down, or rather, serving up perfectly empty pages. --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture

Re: [Gimp-developer] Toolbox UI/Docking

2010-02-23 Thread peter sikking
Jerry Baker wrote: For discussion... https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610344 Add docking capabilities to the toolbox so it would be possible to dock another dialog to the top, bottom, left or right of the toolbox or dock the toolbox on the top, bottom, left, or right of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Hybrid window mode

2010-02-08 Thread peter sikking
Damien wrote: I'm so sad this proposal did not trigger any further discussion. I had not forgotten about it, but a serious reply is serious work. actually, a serious reply means solving the open issues around this theme, some of which you pointed out in your, ehm fiery, posting. --ps

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP GIT: window hints and text move

2010-01-25 Thread peter sikking
Akkana, With GIMP 2.6 Metacity works fine. Seems a bit of a stretch to force people to change window managers with 2.7 just so it doesn't do this. Agreed. It works if you use Utility window as the hint for the toolbox and docks, but then they stay on top of the image window unless you hide

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Use Glade + GtkBuilder for file-png.c save_dialog()

2010-01-09 Thread peter sikking
Martin wrote: Right now GIMP has virtuall all of the UI imperatively constructed with code. This has a few problems: * Tweaking the UI requires re-building the app * A lot of code duplication * Not very modern The patch I am replying to ports the PNG save dialog to Glade and uses

Re: [Gimp-developer] On bug 373060 - allow to easily switch to last used tool

2010-01-09 Thread peter sikking
Damien wrote: I started working on bug 373060 - allow to easily switch to last used tool and ran into design problems, so am I taking this here. I already have a strong idea on what the feature should be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373060 I think what needs to be filtered

Re: [Gimp-developer] On bug 373060 - allow to easily switch to last used tool

2010-01-09 Thread peter sikking
Liam wrote: Another little usage scenario: For my part I've always wanted something like this with dodge/burn, because whenever I switch from dodge to burn on a grayscale engraving scan, I need to change the mode from highlights to shadows - the only combinations that really make much sense

Re: [Gimp-developer] new brainstorm...

2009-12-17 Thread peter sikking
David wrote: a brainstorm where anybody can contribute a tip-of-the-day for GIMP: http://gimp-totd.blogspot.com/ Just a quick note on something you might want to correct: Send your image to us, put the word ‘GIMP tip’ ^ image - tip hey thanks, corrected. and we have already a first

[Gimp-developer] new brainstorm...

2009-12-16 Thread peter sikking
guys, I have pushed into service something that I brainstormed (no pun intended) ages ago with Roman Joost: a brainstorm where anybody can contribute a tip-of-the-day for GIMP: http://gimp-totd.blogspot.com/ I expect this to quickly give a lot of input that (with some manageable editing by the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Secure logging of GIMP actions

2009-12-15 Thread peter sikking
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:37 PM, meetthegimp.org wrote: I just had an interesting phone conversation with someone (sorry, I can't be more specific) who needs to log all actions that have been used to change an image. One should be able to reproduce all the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Making dockable tab style a global setting

2009-12-05 Thread peter sikking
Martin wrote: It is already possible to change the Tab Style for dockable dialog tabs. Right now however, this needs to be done on a per-tab level, using 'Tab Style' in the Tab menu for each dockable. It is cumbersome to manage the tab style on a per-tab level, so I suggest we make this a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Making dockable tab style a global setting

2009-12-05 Thread peter sikking
Martin wrote: peter wrote: Martin wrote: It is cumbersome to manage the tab style on a per-tab level, so I suggest we make this a global setting. That is, changing the tab style for one tab changes the tab style for all tabs. We could also have it in Edit - Preferences - Interface,

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP to be removed from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx?

2009-11-20 Thread peter sikking
Joao wrote: Yes, friend of mine was tehre, confirmed it too. (btw, it evenshowed up in slashdot). IMHO, stupidiest decision ever - they _want_ their users to be dumb and continue that way. well guys, GIMP has the vision to be a high-end/expert application, so we should not be amazed that a

Re: [Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-31 Thread peter sikking
first, thanks for the help from those who replied (Liam: hilarious) Akira wrote: I usually click with a selection tool on any area outside the active selection. But this isn't always fast to do. For example another tool may be currently selected, or the selection method may be set to

[Gimp-developer] ceci n'est pas une selection...

2009-10-30 Thread peter sikking
guys, would like to tap the wisdom of this crowd here. say I have made a selection in GIMP, done what needed to be done to the pixels in the selection and now want to get rid of the selection. the obvious way is Select-None. how many more ways are there? --ps founder +

[Gimp-developer] twisted GIMP fiction...

2009-10-23 Thread peter sikking
guys, cool story, sent by the user interface technology manager of symbian, who I am meeting next week for a workshop and a panel discussion. (symbian adopted the GIMP UI brainstorm method, btw). Begin forwarded message: You might find the following interesting. Augusten Burroughs is an

Re: [Gimp-developer] Would single-window fix usability nightmares?

2009-10-22 Thread peter sikking
OK guys, the tone of this discussion is distracting from the real problems we have and a possible solution. and we do have problems that are in gtk (mainly on windows) and with a load of window managers that do not even implement the window hint that we are apparently the bleeding-edge users of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Save + Export proposal

2009-10-20 Thread peter sikking
photocomix wrote: i knew that Peter Sikking (or somebody else from Gimp UI brainstorm staff)replied but the message get lost for technical problems (full storage disk) yes, I am (by default) the Gimp UI brainstorm staff, and I had about 3 threads going on here before the list collapsed

[Gimp-developer] test

2009-10-19 Thread peter sikking
mon 19, 16:09 --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-05 Thread peter sikking
yahvuu wrote: actually a question for peter (yahvuu): how complete is this overview? most notably, the porter-duff modes are not listed. I'll have a look to make the overview as complete as possible. I am interested in that. modes are like a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-04 Thread peter sikking
it to be unique. peter sikking wrote: maybe there are simply zero arguments to add modes... each new mode adds one finer step for adjustment of blending characteristics. If i want to darken a layer by itself, the curves tool allows nearly infinite different characteristics of darkening. If i

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-04 Thread peter sikking
so after writing in my last mail: layer mode sets the mathematical operation and seeing that the user requests for layer modes are not exactly streaming in, I was thinking during cooking: I should have a look at http://yahvuu.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/table-brightness-1600.png again, and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-03 Thread peter sikking
peter (yahvuu) wrote: peter sikking wrote: to have a reason to add these icons to GIMP, they really have to add something for usability, not just be different enough icons that happen to be similar in their group. what the icons have to deliver is additional _user_insight_ into the modes

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-03 Thread peter sikking
photocomix wrote: so I am sorry. no additions solely for digital-artists. I am afraid that you undervalue creativity of who use gimp for photo or image editing I explain better, even if the goal may be different (as photo- retouch differs from use gimp to paint) the tool used are

Re: [Gimp-developer] Would single-window fix usability nightmares?

2009-10-02 Thread peter sikking
Ilya Zakharevich wrote: However, I do not see how much this would affect the (AFAIK) main complaint about multi-window GIMP: that having several windows with several possibilities of what is focused requires many extraneous mouse clicks and/or keypresses. the introduction of a single window

Re: [Gimp-developer] Progressive escalation of help

2009-10-02 Thread peter sikking
Ilya Zakharevich wrote: To make a long story short: 3 stages is, of course, not enough - especially with applications which target SIMULTANEOUSLY professionals and first-time-Linux-users. I understand first-time-Linux-users as really newby linux desktop users, not beginner-GIMP-users (we have

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-02 Thread peter sikking
Akira wrote: [1] By the way, many people would find nice to see more digital-artist oriented features such as a mixing brush for example, of which there's a third party GIMP source code patch here: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/gimp-painter/releases/ I remember and checked: we discussed

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-02 Thread peter sikking
Martin Nordholts wrote: On 10/01/2009 07:46 PM, peter sikking wrote: meanwhile, can the overlay thing be repaired file-backward- compatible? If you refer to the Overlay layer mode being different when using GEGL compositing compared to legacy compositing, then yes I'm sure it's repairable

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-10-01 Thread peter sikking
Alexia Death wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:17 AM, peter sikking pe...@mmiworks.net wrote: another thing I see here is filling the new tile immediately with the same thing as the parent one. Auto filling fits with blender UI concept but not with gimp-s. Its important to remember

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-01 Thread peter sikking
peter (yahvuu) wrote: first: let me say that there is some real innovative stuff in this post, it is surely intriguing me. here's an idea how icons for layer modes could look like: http://yahvuu.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/layermode-sshot-proposed.png The icons provide a color-coded overview

Re: [Gimp-developer] Icons for layer modes

2009-10-01 Thread peter sikking
Martin Nordholts wrote: http://yahvuu.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/table-brightness-1600.png there is a grab bag of modes never seen in GIMP. do we want to (artistic need, not compatibility) and can (effort) add some of them? Effort-wise it is not a problem to add more layer modes, but I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Peter's single-window proposal (Was: We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8)

2009-10-01 Thread peter sikking
Akira wrote: If I may, I'd also like to add that I find absolutely necessary to maximize vertical space / resolution. It has become very precious resource lately as monitors are starting to adopt very squashed aspect ratios (16:10 was the normality until a few years ago, but recently 16:9

Re: [Gimp-developer] Peter's single-window proposal

2009-09-30 Thread peter sikking
Jon A. Cruz wrote: I think I might have one that can count as subtly different. Working on a prime image and drawing pieces, reference, etc from other images. Especially since I tend to think spatially, this is one I do a lot. I also tend to combine this workflow with others you have already

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-30 Thread peter sikking
Guillermo, What do you think about the method for splitting/joining views in Blender 2.5? It's fast, it kinda covers the idea of the image parade and it allows to float a section as a new window. The only thing needed would be something to mark which is the active image and that would be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Peter's single-window proposal

2009-09-28 Thread peter sikking
Jon A. Cruz wrote: I think I might have one that can count as subtly different. Working on a prime image and drawing pieces, reference, etc from other images. Especially since I tend to think spatially, this is one I do a lot. I also tend to combine this workflow with others you have

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-28 Thread peter sikking
Cole wrote: I think the term single-window mode is potentially confusing. It's how you dock the windows together that gives the user the *perceived* single-window or multiple-window mode. well, if I have to formulate it, then single-window is users' preference for a flat working surface,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Peter's single-window proposal

2009-09-28 Thread peter sikking
saul goode wrote: Citing a passage regarding the image parade on Peter Sikking's blog post: What I find very intriguing is that the notion of which file is open starts to blur. It should be noted that many plug-ins and filters provide dialogs in which the user is prompted (via drop-down

Re: [Gimp-developer] Peter's single-window proposal

2009-09-27 Thread peter sikking
third try, the list should be undead now: OK, comments have petered out here (yeah, dead list) and on the blog post. So it is time for me to summarise the users' needs I was able to filter out of them: 1) drag a layer to another image 2) side-by-side working for - cloning - color picking

Re: [Gimp-developer] Peter's single-window proposal (Was: We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8)

2009-09-20 Thread peter sikking
Daniel Hornung wrote: I'm not planning to dive deeply into this discussion, but I feel that Peter's blog deserves its own thread. OK, I am picking up the thread here. as I just commented on the blog post, I am going to address this need for windows-in-window and work-side-by-side

Re: [Gimp-developer] A new

2009-09-19 Thread peter sikking
Gerald Friedland wrote: That's a great idea. The idea would be to have only on foreground selection tool and make it automatically determine whether to use Magic Wand or SIOX I have been saying this for a while: every time I look at the 4 'content' selection tools (wand, scissors, SIOX and

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Improve brush outline for fuzzy brushes, sample screenshot included

2009-09-14 Thread peter sikking
Alexandre wrote: What exactly do you mean? OK, I'll try to be clearer: mouse up/not painting/just hovering over the canvas: show the real brush pixmap, with all the contrast we can muster vs. the canvas under it, 100% true opacity for each stamp pixel, reflecting brush, scale, aspect ratio,

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-14 Thread peter sikking
Liam R E Quin wrote: OK, I am listening. can you explain to me how this worked better in 2.6? First, note that I said right now -- although strictly speaking I should have said a month ago, I need to update. Sorry that I did not follow up on this sooner, but it may have been a good thing.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug #164774

2009-09-14 Thread peter sikking
Simon Budig wrote: David Gowers wrote: peter sikking wrote: can somebody tell me why we have a tiny replacement for the menu bar right below the menu bar? The obvious answer here is that it's visible when the menubar is not. Well, it has been introduced in the times where

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug #164774

2009-09-14 Thread peter sikking
Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 20:43 +0200, peter sikking wrote: it would however be fully reasonable is only ruler type of stuff would be dependent on rulers being displayed. even creating guides has to be one day be decoupled (don't know how yet) from rulers being

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Improve brush outline for fuzzy brushes, sample screenshot included

2009-09-14 Thread peter sikking
Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: That would be fine if GIMP only supported mouse click painting, not dragging. When one moves mouse while painting seeing brush outline and borders of analyzed area for healing brush is useful. peter sikking wrote: mouse down/painting/stroking on the canvas

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug #164774

2009-09-14 Thread peter sikking
Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 22:21 +0200, peter sikking wrote: Michael J. Hammel wrote: Isn't this already possible with Image-Guides-{New Guide,New Guide (by Percent)}? What would this decoupling add to this? being able to place a new guide with your mouse 'just

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Improve brush outline for fuzzy brushes, sample screenshot included

2009-09-12 Thread peter sikking
(peter) yahvuu wrote: what about printing a semi transparent copy of the actual brush on the canvas? exactly what I thought. Even though I think the patch made the brush outline better for fuzzy brushes, it is still not without flaws. Let's ignore the patch and aim for the above

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug #164774

2009-09-12 Thread peter sikking
second try sending this... Liam wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 00:00 +0200, peter sikking wrote: [///] grab the top-left square where the 2 rulers cross and drag+drop it anywhere on the canvas. the place that currently gives a pop-up menu? damn. yes. can somebody tell me why we have a tiny

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Improve brush outline for fuzzy brushes, sample screenshot included

2009-09-12 Thread peter sikking
second try sending this... (peter) yahvuu wrote: what about printing a semi transparent copy of the actual brush on the canvas? exactly what I thought. Even though I think the patch made the brush outline better for fuzzy brushes, it is still not without flaws. Let's ignore the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug #164774

2009-09-09 Thread peter sikking
On 5 Aug 2009, at 7:39, Martin Nordholts wrote: I am only a month late... On 08/04/2009 01:29 AM, Christopher Howard wrote: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164774 Hi - I was going to look into this enhancement. It was a request to make it possible for the user to change the

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-07 Thread peter sikking
Liam wrote: Right now gimp is broken for working on multiple projects (the file/save changes have rendered it too hard to keep track of where images are being exported) but the use case is central (I think) to how single window needs to work. OK, I am listening. can you explain to me how

Re: [Gimp-developer] We should go for a single-window mode in 2.8

2009-09-07 Thread peter sikking
Omari Stephens wrote: The phrase single-window mode really means absolutely nothing to me. Can someone draw a simple mock-up to make it clear? I will blog about it soon, so you know what I am up to. --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine

Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] Improve brush outline for fuzzy brushes, sample screenshot included

2009-09-01 Thread peter sikking
Guillermo Espertino wrote: what about printing a semi transparent copy of the actual brush on the canvas? exactly what I thought. --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction

[Gimp-developer] vector layers blogged...

2009-07-29 Thread peter sikking
hey guys, I have blogged about the work a group of students did on vector layers for GIMP under my guidance: http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2009/07/teaching-interaction-09.html teaser quotes: In our design project, there was plainly not enough functionality to be useful/usable.

Re: [Gimp-developer] keybindings

2009-07-26 Thread peter sikking
Liam wrote: First, a BIG thank you to Peter and others: the new menu item overwrite is much clearer. I do still have a problem in several gnomish scenarios, but things are indeed getting better. If I use the file manager and drag a file to gimp, or if I use the image thumbnail browser

Re: [Gimp-developer] The Export spec should be augmented to handle an important usecase

2009-07-25 Thread peter sikking
Omari Stephens wrote: UI powers that be: any ideas/status on this? having thought about it quite a bit, here are some jots: as Omari pointed out himself, it is a tug of war of different use cases and it depends on what just happens to be worked on, what the right default is for any given

Re: [Gimp-developer] Scrollwheel actions by default?

2009-07-25 Thread peter sikking
Jeremy wrote, Just a small thing. I noticed that by default, scrolling up and down with the mouse scrollwheel isn't configured to do anything at all. Especially as it wouldn't even be replacing something else, I propose that the scroll-up and scroll-down actions be configured, by default,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Proposal for composition rendering

2009-07-09 Thread peter sikking
(peter) yahvuu wrote: hi all, here's a (totally unbiased ;-) summary from the previous composition rendering thread, intended as a discussion base: I must say that I have been watching this discussion with increasing amazement. if you just start with some unbreakable UI principles like:

Re: [Gimp-developer] open/save/export

2009-06-23 Thread peter sikking
so what happened here? I have spend the last week and a half laying awake at night what is going on with this topic. I have re-evaluated every fundamental principle that is the basis for the change, looking at what is it is the other way around for users? and if that also could solve the 2.6

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2...

2009-06-22 Thread peter sikking
Chris Mohler wrote: I would also manually choke the white plate - this means making the white areas a point or two smaller than the colored areas, thereby preventing the white from poking out at the edges of the colored areas. this looks like trapping to me. is there a difference?

Re: [Gimp-developer] lgm talk, part 2

2009-06-21 Thread peter sikking
I am gluing some posts together: Guillermo Espertino wrote: It seems to me you completely misunderstood the whole thing. What makes you think there is any CMYK - RGB conversion involved here? I think he's talking about the procedure to perform when the source file is CMYK. The

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