Hi folks, I'm running gimp 1.2.4, and working on some very large images with extremely high aspect ratios (i.e. length is MUCH longer than width). Over the past few months I have had several problems related to bugs in the code that the gimp was using to set the initial display scale with my images. Fortunately, Sven Neumann and others recently diagnosed and corrected most of these problems. Additionally, I've made one further extremely simple patch to my own copy of the gimp. This patch causes the gimp to ignore the length of the long axis when determining the initial display scale, IF the aspect ratio of the image exceeds a cutoff value (I'm presently using 5:1 for the cutoff). This patch makes it MUCH easier and faster to work with my images, by avoiding the excessive amount of time that is otherwise required to zoom in to a reasonable scale. FWIW, aspect ratios on my images are typically on the order of 100:1. The preceding patch mostly does what I want, but it still has one slight deficiency. When a high aspect ratio image ratio is displayed, the gimp is setting the window size for the long image dimension to a value that appears to be just slightly larger than the actual screen size, and making the image scrollable in that dimension. Since the window generally does not initially appear centered on the screen, this means that the first step I must take when working with my images is now to move and resize the window. Admittedly that isn't a severe problem, but I work with a lot of images, and any additional steps that I can avoid add up to a lot of time in the long run. So, what I would like to do is alter the gimp's behavior slightly when determining the window size for an image which is scaled such that it exceeds the screen size. Rather than set the window size equal to the screen size in any dimension for which the screen size has been exceeded, I would like to set the window size to something like 80 percent of the screen size. Note that the result of the original image scaling routine is to set the image scale such that the window size is approximately 75 to 80 percent of screen size, and I would like to size the window similarly even if the image size exceeds the screen size. Can someone please point me to the location of the gimp's code that determines what window size to use when the scaled image won't fit on the screen? I'm guessing that a very simple patch to that code should make the gimp do exactly what I want. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! s/KAM P.S. - Once I get these patches completed, I plan to submit them for permanent incorporation into the gimp. They would be very useful for anyone else who works with high aspect ratio images.
