Chris, > First off, I want to apologize - it's not my intention to be > combative, and I can be a total ass sometimes. don't worry, I am also fired up about this one. here is why: people have talked to me a week or more ago on the irc along the line of: "what's the big deal, one way or another will do." here is the big deal: for my pov the dockable magnifier is just-another-feature, it will make some people happy in some situations. the pop-up loupe however, has the potential to be a transformational feature. It has the potential (when properly designed) to fully transform the way most people work with GIMP in work-macroscopic/change-microscopic situations, that go way beyond the mentioned setting selections pixel-precise. "saul" on the irc made this film (thanks): <http://flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com/GIMP/Temp/loupe-demo.gif> I could imagine here some dust spotting going on, on a macroscopic scale the photog decides what really needs to be spotted, pops up the loupe and makes a precise change. I would spec some things different than saul shows us here: enlarged area much closer to the smaller mouse area; semitransparent frame to make the tool less obstructive; real tool display in the enlarged area. > Secondly, I wonder if > we should make two feature requests: the first for a dockable > magnifier with options, and the second for a key-triggered pop-up > version of the same magnifier. Should there be no objections, I'll > file the first request in BZ. practically speaking, this will have to wait for cairo, and I see you are already off the mark. > Peter, do you have any problems with > writing up the second request? Sounds like you have a clearer vision > of how it should be implemented. I am not sure if Sven wants another feature request in bugzilla. If so I will write it. --ps principal user interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
