Hello Gimpers!
As some of you may know, we (Sven, Mitch, Simon and Olof) have had a
Gimp session at the CCC camp in Berlin. Naturally, this resulted in a lot
of hacking and we have added some nice new features to Gimp.
Most of our current project is not finished yet, and some of the features
aren't in a presentable state, so we can can't commit them now. But
freezing Gimp without adding these new features makes some of our work
quite useless. We have therefore redefined the meaning of "feature
freeze", and hereby add those features (listed below) to the development
version of Gimp. You can consider them virtually checked into the current
CVS tree :-).
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* Features added by Sven, Mitch, Simon and Olof into the *
* current CVS tree as of 8 August 1999, Berlin Germany: *
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*Drag&Drop*:
Channels -> drag channel to toolbox to create new image
(both grayscale and RGB)
-> drag alpha channels to image to add channels to
that image (both single and multiple
selected channels)
-> drag color from color selection dialog or
fg/bg color swatches to colorify channel
Layers -> drag to palette (new palette from the current
layer)
-> drag to brush (new brush from layer)
-> drag to pattern (new pattern from layer)
-> drag to gradient (extract palette and
distribute in HSV space :-)
-> drag to layer mask
Selected layers -> the same functions as for Layers
Layer Masks -> the same functions as for Layers
Image -> drag image to layer dialog to create new layer
of image (select (modifier key) to drag
all visible layers or just the active
layer)
-> drag image to layer mask (select (modifier key)
to drag all visible layers or just the
active layer)
-> drag image to channel (select (modifier key) to
drag all visible layers or just the active
layer)
-> to palette (new palette from the active layer)
-> to brush (new brush from image)
-> to pattern (new pattern from image)
-> to gradient (extract palette and distribute :-)
File -> drag filename (from the File Open dialog) to
layer
-> to layermask
-> to channel
-> to palette (new palette from the active layer)
-> to brush (new brush from image)
-> to pattern (new pattern from image)
-> to gradient (extract palette and distribute :-)
Toolbox -> drag foreground color in fg/bg color swatch to
background or vice versa
-> drag color, pattern or gradient to status
dialog
Path -> drag selected paths to image (will copy paths
from one image to another)
Color selectors -> use the standard GTK color-drag
-> color to channel
-> color to Q-mask
Device status -> drag pattern, color and brush
*Paths*:
Selection of paths -> intersect, add, sub, etc.
To selection -> clear the path "pixels"
Interaction -> drag the beziers in the curve
-> Include Simons stuff (modify the behavior of
the tool)
Creation of new bez -> auto creation of new path, will not destroy the
currently active path
*Xinput*:
General settings -> see the context
Pressure/tilt paint -> gradient
-> size
-> tilt of brush
-> opacity
-> color space transform :-)
Transform tool -> the Intuous 4D mouse
Zoom/Pan -> the Intuous 4D mouse
*Help sys*:
Help file structure -> follow the menu structure
toolbox
image
layers
channel
path
load
save
general
URLTypes -> GIMP, PDF and HTML (use xpdf for pdf files)
Context driven help -> browser launch user configurable:
no browser/ existing browser/ new browser
Invoking -> time sensitivity in menu items (i.e roaming
5 sec over the <image>/Select/All
command will automatically load
the Select All help page).
-> when the helpbrowser is opened and you invoke a
command; e.g zoom, text, image/grayscale
etc, the help page for that command will be
loaded.
-> pressing F1 will open the main help page.
-> and of course have a help menu item in the toolbox.
Write the files :-)
*Context*:
Context -> tree structure
-> mapping Xinput matrix
-> save function
-> (context manager) see Simon's preview of it
*Toolbox*:
Indicator area -> add gradient indicator
-> click in current gradient and get gradient
dialog
*Tools*:
*** -> save tool option settings implemented as
session managment
{Pen
Airbrush
Brush} -> paint with gradient (all of the blends as in
the blend tool)
Xinput-airbrush -> new tool
Sponge -> new tool: saturate/desaturate
Measurement -> new tool: length in pixels and in resolution
(i.e
inches, cm or light years :-) second point
will give angle
Bez -> restricted to hor/vert/45 deg?
Maybe not possible due to mod keys?
*Dialogs*:
Gradient selection -> the default ones in a separate top area
-> toggle button for inverted gradients
Prefs -> tool to generate xserver res for the prefs
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* Mandatory for Gimp 1.2 (at least we think so), *
* but we are not planning to do it: *
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*Tools*:
Freehand select -> straight lines (plus mods as in the paint
tools)
IS -> Fix it :-)
-> straight lines (plus mods as in the paint
tools)
Move tool -> temp switch only when invoked by guides
-> switch it off as a preference
Freehand bezier select -> make a free selection and then selection to
path, just hide it for the user
*Dialogs*:
Brush -> possibility to save edited brushes
File -> generate more than one preview at a time
(button for dir)
*General*:
Installation (user) -> dialogs to ask for e.g the tile cache size
Tile cache -> location should be taken from g_get_tmp_dir()
Every Gimp developer is naturally welcome to participate in the
development of these features, but please contact us before you start,
so that we can code more effectively.
Happy Gimping Michael, Olof, Simon and Sven
