On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 12:09:24PM +0930, David Gowers wrote: > On 6/22/06, Carol Spears <carol@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >http://carol.gimp.org/bikeshed/images/screenshot-2006-06-21.png > well, i did not use the tool on that image. that image is my desktop and what is wrong with some of the third party scripts with this new tooltip thingie. > > Okay. > It looks like there is a bug in the SIOX tool/gui that causes it to return > to the foreground setting unexpectedly, until the Control key is first > pressed, then it works as expected. > i appreciate that you tried to use the tool and can verify that it is returning to the foreground setting like that. > the 'Contiguous' option being off seems to be key in this case. > I still can't get it to do quite what i tried to make it do. > Anyway.. this is a dubious use of this particular tool; it was designed for > use on photographic-type images, which your example is quite unlike. I've > tried it on photographs and it generally performs pretty well. > For this case I would have guessed immediately Fuzzy select would be the > quickest route to success, and it did turn out that way: it took me ~45 > seconds to select all the gradients without the lines or windows. > pathtool works the best for me. i want to write a tutorial for siox though so i have lately been trying to use this tool so that i can write one. it was suggested at the gimp convention that a tutorial should be written. you know how suggestions go, you try to take the good ones and ignore the wrong ones. at least, this is the approach i am trying to take. > Though, I suspect that you are tied up in your frustration and thereby > preventing yourself from doing things effectively. Maybe you have a genuine > grievance or maybe you're just behaving lazy. Personally, I've always found > a workout(preferably involving approaching serious peril, and demanding > enough to get adrenaline running) good to clear my head and sort out my > feelings, decide on something. heh. i think that you are probably right about this. the situation is wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong for adrenaline running in my life right now. all i can do is sit and count the wrongs about it. this in itself is very frustrating. thanks for the verification, carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
