On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 06:20 +0200, scl wrote: > - As soon as possible return to a state where the user > can continue her/his work. This means: in the (blocking) foreground > only process what the user imperatively needs to continue her/his work > and use the progress indicator only for this. +1 One I particularly dislike is the cursor grab for select by colour - on a large image you might wait quite some time (tens of seconds or longer) before you can use the mouse pointer again. I looked at patching this but the code was far from obvious, sorry. > The remain of the > operation is done in the background. This would not only appear > to be faster, but really be faster and thus achieve the product visions > goal of a high working speed. Another image editor :) does this a lot, updating the preview and then working on the main image in the background. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
