On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:04:47PM -0400, Christopher Curtis wrote: > I hope I'm not showing my lack of UI skills here, but: > > On 9/26/06, Carol Spears <carol@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:17:34PM -0700, William Skaggs wrote: > >> >"Indexed images are not currently supported." (heal) > >> Healing does not operate on indexed layers > >Healing cannot manipulate indexed images. > > "Cannot heal indexed images. Use Image->Mode to change color mode." > > Points: Instructs how to fix the problem. Concise enough (I hope) to > fit translations. Remove "Use" if constraints prevent users from > seeing "Image->Mode" (the important part) when clipping. > i think that your rewrite is very good. it actually causes me to wonder what has happened to humans that we need to have these messages all over the place though. could it be that so many of the 'needs' of users has been fabricated? (fabricated here meaning invented in such a way to make it seem as if there is so much unhappiness and so that it allows something that was really really good to be changed to be not so good) > And as a general, pie-in-the-sky, comment: > > It seems that indexed mode editing is cumbersome, confusing, and > limited. When core operations are moved into a GEGL, The GIMP should > probably lose indexed mode editing (indexed formats autoconvert > to/from) and a separate tool be created just for this type of editing. > > More blue sky: > > It would be really slick if all GEGL-apps could shuffle images amongst > themselves, assuming that interface is intuitive. So that, for > example, an indexed editor, a pixel editor, a SVG editor, and a > prepress app could all have a 'window' onto a shared image stored in > GEGL space. > indexing images is used only because a good and free animation format has not been agreed upon or for games or simple graphics for speedy web pages. perhaps the need to continue to clutter gimp gui is more a failure of all of the communities who are supposedly there adding to the wealth of information that is already known about image manipulation and also about working with GIMP specifically to make images. how many different ways does the same thing need to be said? could (perhaps) everyone take a step back and a few minutes to consider that it is actually not possible to make an application that is as strong as GIMP that will work easily for people who will not take the time to become familar with it and get on with something that is more productive. i will be honest. i do not think that i will ever see that message in the status bar before i will see it in my own mind based on my experience(s). restated. where are we going? will we want to be there once we arrive? carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
