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

2010-01-07 Thread Damien de Lemeny-Makedone
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 At first, i tried to implement the feature like the swa

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

2010-01-07 Thread Sven Neumann
> Furthermore, Mitch pointed out that gimp has had that kind of feature > ages ago, and I dug up a related commit from ChangeLog.pre-2-0 : > - > 2003-02-25 Sven Neumann > * app/gui/tools-commands.[ch]: removed "Swap Con

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 fil

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

2010-01-09 Thread Marcel Jakobs
On 09.01.2010 14:27, peter sikking wrote: > 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

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

2010-01-09 Thread Damien de Lemeny-Makedone
2010/1/9 peter sikking > > looking at the nature of the "small ad-hoc arsenal of tools + > tools settings + resources" requirement, I think that a brainstormed > mix of something I proposed ages ago, 'blobs of paint' or file palette, > see: > > < > http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2007/05

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

2010-01-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 15:59 +0100, Damien de Lemeny-Makedone wrote: [...] > > Regarding the implementation, such a file specific set of tool presets > would require to have them - gradients, brushes, palettes and fonts > included - embedded in the xcf file. Is this currently possible ? If > not,

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

2010-01-09 Thread yahvuu
hi all, Liam R E Quin wrote: > A nicer way to do this might be the ability to drag an icon from > Tool Options onto the toolbox to make a "new tool" that's really > a combination of default settings for an existing tool? in my mind, it's quite the other way round: An icon in the tool box represen

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 se

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

2010-01-09 Thread Alexia Death
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:21 PM, peter sikking wrote: > would you not be helped with 2 user presets for the dodge/burn tool, > which you would choose alternating during using the tool? > > so per-tool presets would be the solution for your case > (and, yes, millions of other cases where users _alw

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

2010-01-09 Thread Damien de Lemeny-Makedone
2010/1/9 Alexia Death > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:21 PM, peter sikking wrote: > > > would you not be helped with 2 user presets for the dodge/burn tool, > > which you would choose alternating during using the tool? > > > > so per-tool presets would be the solution for your case > > (and, yes, mil

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

2010-01-09 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2010-01-09 at 19:21 +0100, peter sikking wrote: > would you not be helped with 2 user presets for the dodge/burn tool, > which you would choose alternating during using the tool? Yes, especially if I could bind keystrokes to switch to them. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, h