[Gimp-developer] Request for Change 0 Free Select Behavior

[David Gowers]

On 7/26/07, Guillermo Espertino <gespertino at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Gowers wrote:
> > You can already do that. Right-click in the Paths dialog, all the
> > standard operations (replace, add, subtract, intersect) are available.
> > Unless you mean boolean operations that modify the paths themselves,
> > rather than the selection. GIMP doesn't have that.
>
> Yes, I'm aware of that. I mean to perform boolean operations on the paths tehmselves.
Well I think that GIMP should avoid doing that, and instead expect you
to do it with inkscape; transfer of paths between the two programs is
very simple and inkscape's just plain better at path editing.

> Anyway the current behaviour is functional (performing boolean operations on the selection using the paths layers as input) so this can be an interesting enhancement but not an urgent one.

Actually, if you perform these operations on the selection and then
convert the resultant selection back to a path, how does that work for
you? I think, if GIMP got a better selection to path function (for
example, the one that I made which uses PoTrace as a backend.), then
this would work quite well for your purposes.

> > > Oh, btw. I'm experiencing some troubles with SIOX.
> >
> > I thought this was a known bug that had already been fixed in SVN.
>
> I'm having that problem in Gimp 2.3.18 and the fix is not announced in the latest realese.

actually, it is.. 'Bug fixes' :)

Yes, it really is. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448417