On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:42:28 -0500, Jim Sabatke wrote:

There is an excellent tutorial on using PS to do this at:

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/glow.shtml

This would be VERY useful in gimp. Has here been any consideration of this functionality?

If you are looking for a quick soft glow effect, you can use Filters -> Artistic -> Soft glow (in GIMP 2.3.x).

But if you want to follow the tutorial step-by-step and if you really want something like adjustment layers, then you should look at this bug report:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79025

-Raphaël

Guys and gals,

For our presentation at the LGM meeting we would like to show some results from our UI redesign projects.

To keep it interesting for the GIMP crew and the users in the audience, I would like to centre this around the top-10 most requested features in GIMP. You know the ones that make your eyes roll when they get posted here or in bugzilla, again, and again, and again.

Of course I am looking for the ones that are UI related, so 16-bit color is not interesting, but adjustment layers is.

Please help us to make this list by suggesting these top-10 bugs.

Please, please, please do not take this as an invitation to post new requests you just made up in this thread, or to discuss the merit or solutions for any of them. Please, please, please don't.

Just post the three-word descriptions of these requests that you have seen a thousand times, and make your toes curl or your blood boil when you see them.

Thanks for your help,

--ps

principal user interaction architect man + machine interface works

http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:47:30 +0200, peter sikking wrote:

To keep it interesting for the GIMP crew and the users in the audience, I would like to centre this around the top-10 most requested features in GIMP. You know the ones that make your eyes roll when they get posted here or in bugzilla, again, and again, and again.

Of course I am looking for the ones that are UI related, so 16-bit color is not interesting, but adjustment layers is.

Please help us to make this list by suggesting these top-10 bugs.

Well, this is not exactly a top-10 list because some of them have sub-cases, but hopefully you can get something out of this list. I tried to order this with the most important first.

1) (by far) Single window interface, a.k.a. MDI. Note that there are two cases (Window-in-window MDI and Tabbed MDI) that are probably mutually exclusive. Each option has its advantages and drawbacks, and each has its supporters who usually reject the other proposal:
1a) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7379 1b) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121087

2) Adjustment layers http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79025

3) Layer trees or layer groups http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86337

4) Avoid popup dialogs for tools, file plug-ins, etc. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85579 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319963

5) Organize brushes, palettes, gradients... in categories http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119874 ...and make it possible to delete or hide the default ones http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118742

6) Save for web http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98017

7) Better printing support (colors, one image on multiple pages, multiple images per page, ...)

8) Improvements to the text tool 8a) Support for multiple styles (font, size, color, ...) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122706 8b) Applying transformations on text http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125144 8c) Text along path
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169616 8d) Adjustable letter spacing
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331952

9) Painting with "natural brushes" / simulate natural media http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65118

I probably forgot some, but I suppose that you will get several lists so you can have fun merging them. Note that I did not list several frequently requested features that have only a minor impact on the user interface, such as support for 16-bit colors (as you mentioned), support for spot colors, better color profiles, better metadata support, etc.

-Raphaël

On Friday, April 13, 2007, 18:34:52, Raphaël Quinet wrote:

1) (by far) Single window interface, a.k.a. MDI. Note that there are two cases (Window-in-window MDI and Tabbed MDI) that are probably mutually exclusive. Each option has its advantages and drawbacks, and each has its supporters who usually reject the other proposal:

Why would they be mutually exclussive? Take a look at the Opera browser - it's MDI interface includes a toolbar with the buttons for each subwindow, and in some skins these buttons even look like tabs - basically it has something like task-bar for it's internal windows, bringing together best of the both worlds (it also allows you to drag a button off this taskbar to make it appear outside the parent window).

I would like to thank Bill and Raphaël for their help.

From the further deafening silence I take that the consensus is that they hit the nail on the head.

See the results at the LGM, or as a download afterwards...

--ps

principal user interaction architect man + machine interface works

http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture