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Guide Selection Percent zadkey 27 Mar 01:43
  Guide Selection Percent Alexandre Prokoudine 27 Mar 17:31
   Guide Selection Percent zadkey 27 Mar 19:29
  Guide Selection Percent Michael Schumacher 27 Mar 17:32
   Guide Selection Percent zadkey 27 Mar 19:33
    Guide Selection Percent Michael Schumacher 27 Mar 19:47
     Guide Selection Percent zadkey 27 Mar 20:16
zadkey
2017-03-27 01:43:47 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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Guide Selection Percent

Currently in Gimp 2.8 the best offering is to create Guides from a selection or by percent. The Guides by percent feature allows only integers for some reason. This should be changed. EX :Try dividing a an image up into 7 equal pieces horizontally. It can't be done without painstakingly doing the calculations yourself (which invalidates the whole point of the feature in the first place). Allowing doubles/floats for percents would fix this.

A separate issue is that the window always appears as a background window. It is never in focus. It always appears behind the current Gimp window, which is contrary to the behavior of so many other gimp windows. Items from the filter menu that create windows get focus, why not this?. This issue can easily be fixed by doing a focus command after creating the window the same ways the filters do.

Alexandre Prokoudine
2017-03-27 17:31:31 UTC (over 7 years ago)

Guide Selection Percent

27 марта 2017 г. 20:22 пользователь "zadkey" написал:

Currently in Gimp 2.8 the best offering is to create Guides from a selection or
by percent.
The Guides by percent feature allows only integers for some reason. This should
be changed. EX :Try dividing a an image up into 7 equal pieces horizontally. It
can't be done without painstakingly

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/advanced-ways-to-create-guides-in-gimp

Alex

Michael Schumacher
2017-03-27 17:32:04 UTC (over 7 years ago)

Guide Selection Percent

On 03/27/2017 03:43 AM, zadkey wrote:

The Guides by percent feature allows only integers for some reason. This should be changed.

That should be an easy change to the following script: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/plug-ins/script-fu/scripts/guides-new-percent.scm

Modifying the number entry in line 37 to allow for some decimals, and then checking if any of the calculations turn it into integers again, and fix these if necessary.

Do you want to give it a try and get your name into the list of GIMP contributors, or an additional commit if it is present already?

A separate issue is that the window always appears as a background window. It is never in focus. It always appears behind the current Gimp window, which is contrary to the behavior of so many other gimp windows. Items from the filter menu that create windows get focus, why not this?. This issue can easily be fixed by doing a focus command after creating the window the same ways the filters do.

If you know where this command should be done - somewhere in the script-fu plug-in, I assume - you could try to do this as well. There's also a bug report about this behavior.

If you need assistance, join the #gimp IRC channel on irc.gimp.org

Regards,
Michael
GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD
zadkey
2017-03-27 19:29:34 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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Guide Selection Percent

27 марта 2017 г. 20:22 пользователь "zadkey" написал:

Currently in Gimp 2.8 the best offering is to create Guides from a selection or
by percent.
The Guides by percent feature allows only integers for some reason. This
should
be changed. EX :Try dividing a an image up into 7 equal pieces horizontally. It
can't be done without painstakingly

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/advanced-ways-to-create-guides-in-gimp

Alex

I appreciate the info, however my purpose for doing making this post was to get attention from GIMP developers to make suggestions for improvements to GIMP itself. Whether a third party tool can do what I need or not, doesn't improve GIMP.

Actually, I am professional developer myself. If directed to a Github page, I have no problem implementing these changes myself and creating a pull request .

zadkey
2017-03-27 19:33:58 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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Guide Selection Percent

That should be an easy change to the following script: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/plug-ins/script-fu/scripts/guides-new-percent.scm

Modifying the number entry in line 37 to allow for some decimals, and then checking if any of the calculations turn it into integers again, and fix these if necessary.

Do you want to give it a try and get your name into the list of GIMP contributors, or an additional commit if it is present already? If you know where this command should be done - somewhere in the script-fu plug-in, I assume - you could try to do this as well. There's
also a bug report about this behavior.

If you need assistance, join the #gimp IRC channel on irc.gimp.org

I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction with this script. Are gimp developers on this IRC? I am looking put forward improvements to GIMP for everyone, not just myself and my copy.

Michael Schumacher
2017-03-27 19:47:59 UTC (over 7 years ago)

Guide Selection Percent

On 03/27/2017 09:33 PM, zadkey wrote:

That should be an easy change to the following script: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/plug-ins/script-fu/scripts/guides-new-percent.scm

If you need assistance, join the #gimp IRC channel on irc.gimp.org

I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction with this script. Are gimp developers on this IRC?

Yes. This is actually the place where GIMP development happens.

Join, and stay - many people there never leave, even though they might not be watching their screens all the time.

I am looking put forward improvements to GIMP for everyone, not just myself and my copy.

Oh, don't worry - we wouldn't want you to keep your changes a secret :)

Actually, it would be very convenient if you could get a git clone of GIMP from the GNOME git repository. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers - anonymous access for now, frequent contributors get their own account.

Make your change and provide a patch - the usual way is to attach it to a feature request in GNOME Bugzilla - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=GIMP - you'll need to create an account here.

Regards,
Michael
GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD
zadkey
2017-03-27 20:16:33 UTC (over 7 years ago)
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Guide Selection Percent

Yes. This is actually the place where GIMP development happens.

Join, and stay - many people there never leave, even though they might not be watching their screens all the time. Oh, don't worry - we wouldn't want you to keep your changes a secret :)

Actually, it would be very convenient if you could get a git clone of GIMP from the GNOME git repository. See https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers - anonymous access for now, frequent contributors get their own account.

Make your change and provide a patch - the usual way is to attach it to
a feature request in GNOME Bugzilla - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=browse.html&product=GIMP - you'll
need to create an account here.

Thanks very much, I will check it out.