Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-29 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Die, 2003-07-29 um 10.33 schrieb Sven Neumann: The shape displayed is what's used to sample, that's not a question. Make it configurable doesn't seem like a good idea here. I guess most people will agree that a circle is the natural choice. I don't. The colorpicker ist quite handy to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Daniel Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't. The colorpicker ist quite handy to determine the average color in some area and a square is much more natural to handle. How is a square more natural to handle than a circle? All other apps I've seen so far use a circle. Also for a circle

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Daniel Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess I don't really understand your question. Do you want to know whether it makes sense to display the shape actually used for sampling or whether to use a circle instead of a square? I'd say: Make the shape configurable and always display the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-29 Thread Phil Harper
From: Daniel Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Gimp Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool Date: 29 Jul 2003 13:39:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Am Die, 2003-07-29 um 10.33 schrieb Sven Neumann: The shape

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-29 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Phil Harper wrote: The shape displayed is what's used to sample, that's not a question. Make it configurable doesn't seem like a good idea here. I guess most people will agree that a circle is the natural choice. I don't. The colorpicker ist quite handy to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Daniel Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's easier to handle for arbitrary shaped regions IMHO. Coolest would be of course to provide a possibility to select a brush for the sample area; the grey value would determine the importance of the pixel on a given position. Selecting a black

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-28 Thread Roman Joost
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:53:00PM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote: Hija, I just noticed that GIMP uses the label Radius to describe a slider which is effectivly describing the size of a square area. This seems pretty misleading to me, what about edgelength or alike instead? I think Size would

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Daniel Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just noticed that GIMP uses the label Radius to describe a slider which is effectivly describing the size of a square area. This seems pretty misleading to me, what about edgelength or alike instead? Are you refering to the GimpColorTools here?

Re: [Gimp-developer] Wrong terminology in color picker tool

2003-07-28 Thread Daniel Egger
Am Die, 2003-07-29 um 02.14 schrieb Sven Neumann: Are you refering to the GimpColorTools here? (Derivatives of GimpColorTool are all the color correction tools as well as the paint tools.) You are right that we are using a square area here but since the value in question describes the half