Hello, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:37 PM, peter sikking wrote: >> guys, >> >> here is sort of a review of what has been discussed here: >> >> To take this top-down: I can only see this change as an UI >> improvement if it means getting rid of the bg color swatch. > > How is one supposed to paint on mask without bg/fg color swatch? That's not included in yahvuu's proposal, but I proposed something that could neatly solve that, and address gradient issues: replace the FG/BG color concept with FG + cycleable 4-long color history. In this situation, you could still press a single key to swap between two colors (you would be swapping the previous color with the current color). Pressing it multiple times could cycle further back (in both cases you could get a simple OSD -- see MyPaint for example.). 'previous color in the color history' still can have roughly the same usage, we would just not be giving that color special treatment by labelling it 'BG'. The 'FG to BG' gradients still make sense in this context, they could just become 'Current to old color' (and usage patterns should be virtually identical.) Peter's done a good job synthesizing the 'BGcolor' with the requirement to specify whether alpha channel is desired in any exported/flattened image, and also notices similar problems to you. The problems brought up by both of you, Alexandre and Peter, are addressed neatly by my proposal above. Perhaps it needs a mockup.. I feel it fits very well into yahvuu's proposition, turning its weakpoints into strong points. Something that hasn't been brought up, BTW: Flatten Image vs Merge Visible layers. Not exactly the same, but would become closer to each other if Peter's description was implemented. Maybe we need to attempt to rationalize that. The behaviour of Sample Merged seems fairly obvious here, but I'm bringing it up also, just in case. David _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
