On 8 Feb 2002, at 22:02, Andrew Duhan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:37, Sven Neumann wrote: > > > Let's see what we can do about the path tool. Simon started to hack > > on this, but I have no idea how far he's come. On the other hand we > > should probably decide on the feature-set for 1.4 soon and I don't > > think we should try to add sophisticated stuff like vector layers to > > 1.4 since it would probably delay the release too much. > A few of the most useful (hopefully > non-sophisticated, 1.4-bound) changes I can see are: [...] > and optionally, > *)selection-to-path results in fewer control points As to this latter wish: there is a little advertised option in GIMP with which you can control many aspects of the selection to path conversion. Go to the Paths dialogs, and Shift-Click on the Selection to Path button. You will get a dialog with many sliders, of which I understand none. Experiment. HTH, -- branko collin collin@xxxxxxxxx
