Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-30 Thread Mirai Warren
All I can do is to modify the path and to draw it as a bitmap graphic. Isn't the GIMP supposed to editing photos and creating original works with pixel-based formats? It still lacks functionality or ease of use with those tasks, so why should paths and SVG need support past what it has now?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-30 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2008/12/30 Mirai Warren wrote: Isn't the GIMP supposed to editing photos and creating original works with pixel-based formats? It still lacks functionality or ease of use with those tasks, so why should paths and SVG need support past what it has now? Artificial limitation for creative

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:00 +0100, Iljoa wrote: It would be nice to have but getting this feature to work good requires quite a bit of work both on GIMP and Inkscape. How much work exactly? The point is that given the amount of active developers on GIMP we have enough feature

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread gg
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:00 +0100, Iljoa wrote: It would be nice to have but getting this feature to work good requires quite a bit of work both on GIMP and Inkscape. How much work exactly? The point is that given the amount of active developers on GIMP we have

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:40 +0100, gg wrote: SVG is not just a path.../path but a full blown xml spec that includes javascript and DOM. How much of that is handled by GIMP? I'm also unaware of the word trackle but I think the meaning is clear. Sorry, but the sentence in question was

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2008/12/29 Sven Neumann wrote: exchange paths between GIMP and Inkscape. So the best thing we can do at this point is to ask the Inkscape developers to add a way to get a path back into GIMP easily. It already works with Inkscape from SVN trunk. You just copy a path in Inkscape to clipboard

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 17:28 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: It already works with Inkscape from SVN trunk. You just copy a path in Inkscape to clipboard and Ctrl+V it in GIMP's image window. Seems somewhat hard to discover that you can get a path from GIMP into Inkscape using DnD and

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Iljoa
What do you mean, a trackle of the SVG format? Can you be more specific about this, please? Sven I meant a trickle (sorry for the typo) and to be more specific: In GIMP I cannot define a fill color, stroke color, type and width. I hava a naked bezier curve without any additional information.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Martin Nordholts
Iljoa wrote: In GIMP I cannot define a fill color, stroke color, type and width. I hava a naked bezier curve without any additional information. It is worth mentioning that GIMP 2.8 is planned to have basic vector layers which supports exactly that. The enhancement request to track is: Bug

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-29 Thread Henk Boom
2008/12/29 Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com: Iljoa wrote: In GIMP I cannot define a fill color, stroke color, type and width. I hava a naked bezier curve without any additional information. It is worth mentioning that GIMP 2.8 is planned to have basic vector layers which supports exactly

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-28 Thread Martin Nordholts
Iljoa wrote: Hi, I want to propose a feature request; I did this already in Bug 565776; there I was told this should be discussed here, and here I am: There should be the option to edit path layers in an external program. Hi It would be nice to have but getting this feature to work good

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-28 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
2008/12/28 Martin Nordholts wrote: It would be nice to have but getting this feature to work good requires quite a bit of work both on GIMP and Inkscape. Besides native path editing in gegl's test tool is getting really interesting, and once it's inside GIMP, one would probably not wish going

Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 08:58 +0100, Iljoa wrote: There should be the option to edit path layers in an external program. You are aware that you can drag a path from the GIMP Paths dialog into Inkscape and edit it there? Unfortunately I can't tell you how you can easily get that path back

[Gimp-developer] Feature proposal: Edit paths in external program

2008-12-27 Thread Iljoa
Hi, I want to propose a feature request; I did this already in Bug 565776; there I was told this should be discussed here, and here I am: There should be the option to edit path layers in an external program. It could work this way: Right click on a path, choose edit with external program, open it