Apologies. Meant to send it to Gimp-developer. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Partha Bagchi <partha1b@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:45 PM Subject: Re: something's starting, it is the text tool To: peter sikking <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:12 PM, peter sikking <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dec 19, I wrote: > >> The GIMP UI team just got a bit bigger. Dominique Schmidt >> will work the first 3 months of 2012 on an appropriately >> sized UI design project. The deliverable is a UI spec. > > > today we picked the topic Dominique will be working on: > > working with text in GIMP, specifically with the text tool. > > > to start tackling this from the right end, we from the UI team > first want to better understand the role of text in working with > GIMP. specifically work that is within the product vision: > > - high-end photo manipulation; > - creating original art from images; > - producing icons, graphical elements of web pages and > art for user interface elements. > > it is easy to see that GIMP is not a program to write a letter in, > or to lay out 200 pages of text. but beyond that, we want to get > a better feeling what the role of text is within the image > manipulation that you do with GIMP. > > so please help us by replying here, with you answer what > text means to you when working with GIMP. > > ps: I think mitch and nomis are the two developers most interested > in this topic, and we would like to sit down soon with them to > hash out a vision for text(tool) in GIMP, based on what we can > distill out of this survey. > > pps: Tobias Ehni, can you already contribute here? > > thanks, > > --ps > > founder + principal interaction architect > man + machine interface works > > http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture > > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list What's wrong with the tool as it stands now? Looks good to me for what I do with text. My main focus is photography. _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
