Fwd: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-19 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
Please forgive me forwarded wrong message(carol's) by mistake previously. -- Forwarded message -- From: miriam clinton (iriXx) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:48:27 -0800 Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus... To: L

Fwd: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-19 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
-- Forwarded message -- From: Carol Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:44:14 -0800 Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus... To: "miriam clinton (iriXx)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GIMPDev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Fwd: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-19 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
-- Forwarded message -- From: Laxminarayan Kamath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 12:23:11 +0530 Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] some day, someone write: > > I would say it would take

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-14 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:41:41PM -0800, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: hi, i am really glad that you stuck with this list. since making this excellent decision, might i direct you to this document: http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html and ask that you at least strip the mail

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-12 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
Carol Spears wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:41:05AM -0800, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: Carol Spears wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:17:20AM -0800, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: just to clarify - i'm here contributing from the point of view of a professional graphic designer,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-12 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
Carol Spears wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:41:05AM -0800, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: I'm freelance, have worked for a variety of companies in temporary contracts or purely freelance (I value my independence, and owning my own company). I would say it would take me at least dou

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Cozens
Sven Neumann wrote: Yes, the plan's to move the scripts out of the script-fu menu into the places they belong to. What's missing here though is a better menu registration functionality in Script-Fu. Kevin wanted to add a bug report about this. Actually, I was originally expecting Sven to add the bu

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-12 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:41:05AM -0800, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: > Carol Spears wrote: > > >On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:17:20AM -0800, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: > > > > > >>just to clarify - i'm here contributing from the point of view of a > >>professional graphic designer, considerin

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-12 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, "miriam clinton (iriXx)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Script-Fu is totally incomprehensible to graphic designers Actually you are not supposed to recognize that it's a script-fu. How to achieve that is what we are discussing at the moment. Sven Brilliant! I was

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-12 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
Hmm, will give it a try. Again, not easy to find - designers also work under a great deal of pressure to get stuff done fast, and a tool where selections appear obscured will not encourage them so easily. Cinepaint, though, has had a great deal of success. I'm going to be interested to compile

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-12 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
Jakub Friedl (lists) wrote: please use Win 98 or XP if you have to use Windows, but not ME. It is the worst system from Microsoft available. I'm testing on both Win ME (forced to by a proprietary laptop) and XP. XP has a nice widget set. But a designer - a vanilla designer, not a programmer-d

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]> ]> The natural place for a user to look would be ]> ]> within the "brushes" dialog. ]> ]Huh? ...? Seriously? ]> Seriously: ]> That's where brushes ... ]> Brush editor is the only other tool that creates brushes. ]That isn't true. Image->Save ... I stand corrected. Brush editor is the only

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "miriam clinton (iriXx)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Script-Fu is totally incomprehensible to graphic designers Actually you are not supposed to recognize that it's a script-fu. How to achieve that is what we are discussing at the moment. Sven

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I meant as an export operation. In general, if you pass a file to > a save operation that it doesn't support, it proposes an export > operation to convert to a format supported (like saving an RGB > image as gif, for example). I'm not sure how that's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread David Neary
Hi, Alan Horkan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Neary wrote: > > Alan Horkan wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Neary wrote: > > > > It should also (IMHO) work on images and not just drawables, > > > > proposing a flatten if necessary. Every time I have used > > > > selection to brush so

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Popolon
Sven Neumann wrote: Hi, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Seriously: That's where brushes are managed. That's where they're deleted. That's where they're chosen. That's where they're created from scratch. That's where they're edited. That's where someone looking for a brush that doesn

[carol: Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...]

2004-11-11 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:17:20AM -0800, miriam clinton (iriXx) wrote: > just to clarify - i'm here contributing from the point of view of a > professional graphic designer, considering the mainstream > Adobe/Macromedia market who would have never used GIMP, and how we can > 'convert them over'

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Alan Horkan
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Neary wrote: > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:36:18 +0100 > From: David Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in > me

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Alan Horkan
Miriam > okay... since i'm in the Hotel California where you can check in but > never check out Sorry that the you were unable to unsubscribe, I have no idea why the unsubscribe system didn't work for you but I'm pretty sure the developers were joking and that if you are still unable to uns

[Offtopic] Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Alan Horkan
; Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in > menus... > > just to clarify - i'm here contributing from the point of view of a > professional graphic designer, considering the mainstream > Adobe/Macromedia market who woul

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread David Neary
Hi, Alan Horkan wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Neary wrote: > > It should also (IMHO) work on images and not just drawables, > > proposing a flatten if necessary. Every time I have used > > selection to brush so far, the selection was created with "select > > all". > > I'd rather not add a f

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Jakub Friedl (lists)
> Also - anyone have an address for the Inkscape-devel and Sodipodi-devel > lists? http://www.inkscape.org/mailing_lists.php http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sodipodi-list here you are > candy' - thats another important factor for designers, we're competing > with the Windows and Mac

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
just to clarify - i'm here contributing from the point of view of a professional graphic designer, considering the mainstream Adobe/Macromedia market who would have never used GIMP, and how we can 'convert them over' . This market are of the 'pick it up and use it' intuitive designers - they wi

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Jakub Friedl (lists)
> Script-Fu is totally incomprehensible to graphic designers > it depends. i am a fluent script-fu speaker for example. ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread miriam clinton (iriXx)
okay... since i'm in the Hotel California where you can check in but never check out from a graphic designer's point of view this is a nightmare... most of them wouldnt know how to use the Bash shell, or only the basics, let alone how to do this. Is it possible to design a GUI implementati

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Alan Horkan
gt; Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in > menus... > > Hi, > > Sven Neumann wrote: > > Script-Fu->Selection->To Brush solves this nicely > > but it should be moved to a better place in the menus. I forgot that I made further modif

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread David Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: > Script-Fu->Selection->To Brush solves this nicely > but it should be moved to a better place in the menus. It should also (IMHO) work on images and not just drawables, proposing a flatten if necessary. Every time I have used selection to brush so far, the selection was c

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread David Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The natural place for a user to look would be > > within the "brushes" dialog. > > Huh? If you wanted to use the current image or part of it as a brush, > you would look in the Brushes dialog? Seriously? Personally I'

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ]> The natural place for a user to look would be > ]> within the "brushes" dialog. > ] > ]Huh? If you wanted to use the current image or part of it as a brush, > ]you would look in the Brushes dialog? Seriously? > ] > > Seriously: > > That's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]> The natural place for a user to look would be ]> within the "brushes" dialog. ] ]Huh? If you wanted to use the current image or part of it as a brush, ]you would look in the Brushes dialog? Seriously? ] Seriously: That's where brushes are managed. That's where they're deleted. That's where t

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The natural place for a user to look would be > within the "brushes" dialog. Huh? If you wanted to use the current image or part of it as a brush, you would look in the Brushes dialog? Seriously? Sven __

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
]> Select->To...->[Brush/Channel/Image/Path/Pattern/...] ] ]I agree that it would help if the scripts ]were moved to elsewhere in the ]menus, but I reiterate my point that I do ]not think they do not belong ]in ]the Select menu. ] The natural place for a user to look would be within the "brushe

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-10 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Popolon wrote: > Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:00:35 +0100 > From: Popolon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus... > > Actually in Select menu there is two items "To Path&

Re: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Popolon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The menu Select could have an organisation for these conversions as: > > Select->To...->[Brush/Channel/Image/Path/Pattern/...] > > to avoid a to long Select menu. > > and a 'Selection To Brush/Pattern' button could be in brush/Pattern > windows, as there

[Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus...

2004-11-09 Thread Popolon
Actually in Select menu there is two items "To Path" and "Save To Channel". I searched long time how to convert selection to brush, I think that the only way was to save brush to a file, move the file to ~/.gimp-xx/brush folder and restart gimp. This week in a newsgroup, another guy searched did