Hi Hadrien, On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Hadrien G. <guydeloinbard@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > => I'm currently using Microsoft Windows XP as my main OS. Would it help > greatly to get some Linux distro back on my hard drive ? Yes, development is much easier on Linux. > => How does one design the gimp UI ? Are there graphical tools/XML > files/other high-level things to know about ? Or is this hard-coded in some > unit (and, in that case, which unit) ? You can experiment with graphical designing using Glade. But you would need to finally code the GUI manually, since we don't use Glade in GIMP. http://zetcode.com/tutorials/gtktutorial/ might help. > => By the way, could one show me an example of gimp config file saving code, > to know which standard applies here ? > => A proposal is to switch between whole different gimprcs. Is this really > wise ? I mean, shouldn't some settings stay profile-independant, say, those > about memory management, help system, display (especially DPI), color > management, and folders ? That was my proposal for working with gimp as it currently is; of course this is not exactly what is wanted, just what could be done with the current gimp. > I think that one should first plot some boundaries around the profile thing. > What should be included in a profile, and what shouldn't ? > Personnally, I would suggest : > -Toolbox state > -Dockable windows status > -Keyboard shortcuts (maybe) > -Tool options Does this include presets? (see tool-options directory in your personal gimp directory) > -Image window appearance (maybe) Are you talking about whether rulers, menubar, selection, etc.. is shown in the default image window? If so, I think that's stored in gimprc. If you're rather talking about image window position and size, it's stored in sessionrc, along with the dockable windows state. > -Extended input peripheral shortcuts (maybe) Although Photoshop supports switching between sets of keyboard shortcuts (and presumably between sets of peripheral shortcuts), it might be quite confusing to switch between them. I think if you asked Peter, he would say "that's more trouble than it's worth". You might consider including this too: - Device status (found in devicerc) This would mean that when you switched between profiles, it could automatically switch to a sensible tool and sensible brush, colors, etc. > => Should one new config file be created for each profile, and a "profile" > subfolder be added to the .gimp-2.x directory ? In any case, which naming > convention should I use ? I think .gimp-2.x/profiles is probably appropriate. Each profile would almost certainly need to be a subdirectory with multiple config files (eg toolrc, sessionrc, ..) . > => Should this setting be called a profile or workspace ? Profile seems more accurate, to me. > => Where should this be put in GUI to make people know about it ? The > preference dialog is a pretty obvious location, but since this is more > likely to be used as a tool than as a setting, shouldn't there be a specific > dockable window about it ? And should this be added to the default UI or not > ? A dockable would be good while you're developing it; We should probably try to get Peter's input on what a sensible way for it to end up might be. David _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
