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RFE: Changing/Remembering/Setting Dialog Defaults for Image... Canvas Size...

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RFE: Changing/Remembering/Setting Dialog Defaults for Image... Canvas Size... Jay Smith 02 Apr 17:56
  RFE: Changing/Remembering/Setting Dialog Defaults for Image... Canvas Size... Akkana Peck 03 Apr 18:49
Jay Smith
2009-04-02 17:56:06 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

RFE: Changing/Remembering/Setting Dialog Defaults for Image... Canvas Size...

[I hope it is appropriate to post here though I am not qualified to be a "developer". I posted this on gimp-user and got no feedback. I noted on bugzilla that somebody with an RFE was scolded for not bringing up the subject here first.]

I am Using Gimp 2.6.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux.

I have not been able to find any way to: Set "Preferences" defaults (either through GUI or rc files)... Get Gimp to remember settings within a user session... Get Gimp to remember from one Gimp session to another... for the following...

In the dialog box:

Image... Canvas Size...

- Layers... The dialog _always_ seems to default to "None" instead of "All Layers". I want to set a default of "All Layers".

- Canvas Size... The 'link' symbol at the top, between the two pixel sizes, reverts every time to "linked" status. It seems that it has to be "unlinked" every time if you wish to change only one of the dimensions of the canvas (or change them differently). I want to be able to have this default to "unlinked" so that I can change them independently without having to click the link/unlink.

- Canvas Size... The method of measurement always defaults to pixels. For my work, it would be easier for me to see/manipulate inches or cm.

I have to do highly repetitive work involving thousands of images, thus a small thing like link/unlink means clicking thousands of times.

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I thought that certainly there must be a way to change such defaults for a particular Gimp installation.... or at the very least, for a particular user session of running Gimp.

Am I missing something?

Is there an rc file that I can create (or add to) that will give this type of control.

Does this require a plug-in? Is there one that will do it? Is there a plug-in that will allow the user control over _all_ the defaults? (The model that comes to mind is the firefox/thunderbird about:config setting methods.)

Jay

Akkana Peck
2009-04-03 18:49:48 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

RFE: Changing/Remembering/Setting Dialog Defaults for Image... Canvas Size...

Jay Smith writes:

In the dialog box:

Image... Canvas Size...

- Layers... The dialog _always_ seems to default to "None" instead of "All Layers". I want to set a default of "All Layers".

I too would love this to be remembered. I usually want "All image-sized layers" but it gets to be a hassle to change it, so I usually don't and then find I need to resize the layers later.

Developers: if someone were to make a patch to do this, would it be accepted?

If so, would it be better to have it always remember the last setting, or to introduce a new preference for which setting the user wants as default for each session?

- Canvas Size... The 'link' symbol at the top, between the two pixel sizes, reverts every time to "linked" status. It seems that it has to be "unlinked" every time if you wish to change only one of the dimensions of the canvas (or change them differently). I want to be able to have this default to "unlinked" so that I can change them independently without having to click the link/unlink.

- Canvas Size... The method of measurement always defaults to pixels. For my work, it would be easier for me to see/manipulate inches or cm.

I haven't hit those two myself, but if I were to change the "Resize layers" option and people thought it was worth doing these two, I could look into doing them at the same time.

And while we're talking about options I want to change every time: two more I'd love to have remembered is in the JPEG Save dialog, "Preview" and "Save thumbnail". I always want Preview (why would anyone ever move the quality slider and not want to see a preview?) and I never want EXIF thumbnails, but there's no way to save those settings. I tend to hack them in my own copy of GIMP, but I'd love to do a patch for JPEG save that would remember all the options in the dialog, across sessions. Is there any chance that would be accepted?

I know there's a proposal in bugzilla to write a general mechanism for all plug-ins to remember their settings; but that proposal has been there through three major releases and there's no consensus on how to do it, and in the meantime, fixing JPEG save is something that could potentially help a lot of people.

...Akkana