On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Markus Koskimies <mkoskim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > First a possible bug report: I have Xubuntu (9.10) and Wacom Intuos4 L > graphics tablet. I have problems with both GIMP and MyPaint dialogs > (load/save/settings), they frequently "jam" so that they do not accept mouse > (nor pen) clicks. Some dialogs work nicely all the time (like brush > selections and such, both in GIMP and MyPaint). I think this is somehow > related to GTK, since both of them are using that? Have anyone else reported > this? Sliders and such tend to jam for me too. there seem to be some serious issues in GTK with pointer handling since the clinet side windows were put in. > I found MyPaint, which suits better for creating paintings with graphic > tablet. MyPaint is a painting application. Its meant for painting so it does it well. MyPaint/GIMP have the same relation as Painter/Photoshop. >So, my suggestions ATM is that don't use too much efforts for brush > dynamics; keep GIMP as image processing software, instead of painting > program. Image processing needs dynamics as much or even more than painting approach. Theres a lot of brushwork in touching up a photo or creating an image from other images. So in a way, without providing "artistic" brushes, dynamics are very important to an image processor and very much in scope. > Because MyPaint UI is written with Python, I think that I concentrate on > that, since it is far easier to get involved with. It wouldn't be bad to > change GIMP UI to Python, too, I think that writing UI with C is just... > hmh... nicely said - interesting. But I'll check if I can make some > development for GIMP, too. If your aim is to paint then MyPaint suits your aims better. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
