On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Popolon wrote: > Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:00:35 +0100 > From: Popolon <popogimp@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [Gimp-developer] Selection to brush/pattern/whatever in menus... > > 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 didn't find how to > convert a selection to a pattern. For him the only way was to save > selection to move the file to ~/gimp-xx/pattern folder and restart gimp :(. > > > A day, don't know exactly for why, By wandering in gimp menus, I find > the miraculous: > Script-Fu->Selection->To Brush/Image/Pattern I adjusted my local version to become "Edit, Define Pattern..." (and similarly "Edit, Define Brush..."). I think the current label is incorrect and misleading because the selection itself is not being modified, the _contents_ of the selection is what is being modified (same goes for most scripts and filters). > I believe (perhaps wrong), that the human logic is to use the same tool > to do nearly the same thing. > > The menu Select could have an organisation for these conversions as: > > 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. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
