Sent: 2012-02-21 08:33:59 UTC (3 months ago)

From: Muhammad Younis

An important tool missing in GIMP

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Hello!

I've been using GIMP for sometime now. And I would like to thank all the developers for making such wonderful software and distributing it for free.
But I wanted to point developers' attention to an important tool that is missing in GIMP. It is the Shape Tool. It's a really useful tool in making designs. So it would be great if you can kindly develop this tool and include it in the next release of GIMP.

Thank you
Regards
M Younis

Sent: 2012-02-21 10:50:22 UTC (3 months ago)

From: Tobias Jakobs

An important tool missing in GIMP

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Hello,

can you explain, what a "Shape Tool" is and what you need it exactly for?

Regards,
Tobias

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:33, Muhammad Younis wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been using GIMP for sometime now. And I would like to thank all the
> developers for making such wonderful software and distributing it for free.
> But I wanted to point developers' attention to an important tool that is
> missing in GIMP. It is the Shape Tool. It's a really useful tool in making
> designs. So it would be great if you can kindly develop this tool and
> include it in the next release of GIMP.
>
> Thank you
> Regards
> M Younis
> _______________________________________________
> gimp-developer-list mailing list
> gimp-developer-list@gnome.org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
>

Sent: 2012-02-21 10:50:47 UTC (3 months ago)

From: Alexandre Prokoudine

An important tool missing in GIMP

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Muhammad Younis wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been using GIMP for sometime now. And I would like to thank all the
> developers for making such wonderful software and distributing it for free.
> But I wanted to point developers' attention to an important tool that is
> missing in GIMP. It is the Shape Tool. It's a really useful tool in making
> designs. So it would be great if you can kindly develop this tool and
> include it in the next release of GIMP.

Hi Muhammad,

Vector layers and geometry primitives are in plans, we already did
preliminary usability study, but currently we have higher priorities.

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org

Sent: 2012-02-21 11:35:45 UTC (3 months ago)

From: Mikael Magnusson

An important tool missing in GIMP

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Filters -> Render -> Gfig has some basic shape support.

On 21 February 2012 09:33, Muhammad Younis wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've been using GIMP for sometime now. And I would like to thank all the
> developers for making such wonderful software and distributing it for free.
> But I wanted to point developers' attention to an important tool that is
> missing in GIMP. It is the Shape Tool. It's a really useful tool in making
> designs. So it would be great if you can kindly develop this tool and
> include it in the next release of GIMP.
>
> Thank you
> Regards
> M Younis
> _______________________________________________
> gimp-developer-list mailing list
> gimp-developer-list@gnome.org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
>

Mikael Magnusson

Sent: 2012-02-27 19:05:32 UTC (3 months ago)

From: Sven C. GrafxUser

An important tool missing in GIMP

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Hi,

for a longer time I missed easy usable shapes in GIMP. The current solution
GFig is IMHO too unprecise and the integration of vector layers from
GSoC 2010
is postponed for later (see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557970#c20).
Since bug #613885 is solved, it's now possible to import vector paths from
other programs. I used this chance and created some shapes with Inkscape
to use
in GIMP: rectangles, squares, polygons, circle, ellipses, arcs, pies,
triangles, stars, wave, spiral, trapezoid. There are rectangles, sqares and
stars with 'normal' and rounded corners. I think, that's enough for
first and
fulfills most of the needs.
Currently I'm unsure how to provide them to be easily accessible from
the UI.
Should I provide them in a subfolder of the source's data-folder or via
Gimpstuff?
My time is currently very rare, but I'd like to help out in GIMP, if I can.
Yesterday and not knowing about this question here I posted the same
message in Bugzilla, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65197.
So, if one of the main developers or contributors would like to answer,
he or she can do so in reply to this message or in Bugzilla.

Greetings,

Sven

Sent: 2012-02-27 22:08:15 UTC (3 months ago)

From: Ofnuts

An important tool missing in GIMP

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On 02/27/2012 08:05 PM, Sven C. GrafxUser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for a longer time I missed easy usable shapes in GIMP. The current
> solution
> GFig is IMHO too unprecise and the integration of vector layers from
> GSoC 2010
> is postponed for later (see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557970#c20).
> Since bug #613885 is solved, it's now possible to import vector paths
> from
> other programs. I used this chance and created some shapes with
> Inkscape to use
> in GIMP: rectangles, squares, polygons, circle, ellipses, arcs, pies,
> triangles, stars, wave, spiral, trapezoid. There are rectangles,
> sqares and
> stars with 'normal' and rounded corners. I think, that's enough for
> first and
> fulfills most of the needs.
> Currently I'm unsure how to provide them to be easily accessible from
> the UI.
> Should I provide them in a subfolder of the source's data-folder or via
> Gimpstuff?
> My time is currently very rare, but I'd like to help out in GIMP, if I
> can.
> Yesterday and not knowing about this question here I posted the same
> message in Bugzilla, see
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65197.
> So, if one of the main developers or contributors would like to
> answer, he or she can do so in reply to this message or in Bugzilla.

There is a shape-paths script that covers a lot of shapes... see
http://registry.gimp.org/node/59

I do agree that Gfig in its present form is about unusable and could as
well be removed, unless some developer puts it out of its misery and
lets it produce plain paths. Why can' t Gfig produce clean results?
(see http://i.imgur.com/8rorw.png with GFIG on left and shape-paths on
right, or even worse: http://i.imgur.com/8J6lU.png)