Hi, On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 19:15 -0700, Valerie wrote: > Half the current default is made up of non-editable round-ish > brushes (that in my opinion makes the brush editor hard to > discover, because new users end up wondering why the brush > editor never works. In fact, I start each new installation of > Gimp by sudo rm-ing the extra round brushes and replacing them > with one editable one). What version of GIMP are you using? We replaced all the roundish pixmap brushes with parametric ones for GIMP 2.4. The actual problem is not that the brushes would be pixmap brushes. They are just not editable because they are in the system brush folder. What needs to be done is to add code that makes system brushes editable by transparently copying them to the users folder when the user clicks the "Edit" button. Sorry, your brush contest sounds like a nice idea. But it would not solve the problem that I tried to outline above. Also there are some more problems to solve before we can accept larger brush collections into the default set of brushes (or even into the gimp-data-extras package). One of these problems is currently being solved as part of the Google Summer of Code. GIMP 2.8 should allow you to organize your brushes using tags. But that still doesn't solve the problem that all brushes (and other resources) are read into memory on startup. See http://svenfoo.geekheim.de/index.php/2005-04-13/brushes-patterns-gradients/ Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
