Saving metadata was added inside the loop where the flags for
the differen types of metadata etc. to be saved were updated.
This caused multiple calls to save metadata with inconsistent
settings.
Though GObject Introspection is normally not an option, the only case we
don't build it yet is when cross-compiling (as we haven't found the
right way to do it). So let's not build the Goat Exercise plug-in in
Vala in such case as we needed the introspected libgimp.
Since meson 0.43.0 (below our current requirement), 'symbol_prefix'
argument of gnome.generate_gir() allows an ordered list. If I prepend
'gimp_ui', it makes any gimp_ui_*() function to not start with 'ui_'.
In particular, GimpUi.ui_init() becomes GimpUi.init() which is much less
redundant.
Our Preferences exposes a concept of "Preferred color profile" (for RGB,
grayscale and CMYK), which is used in some places to be proposed as
default alternative to built-in profiles. But it was not used in the
import color profile dialog (only 2 choices were: keep the image profile
or convert to built-in RGB).
This commit now adds this third choice, which is even made default when
hitting the "Convert" button directly, without tweaking with the dialog.
Because we can assume that if someone made the explicit choice to label
such a profile as "Preferred", this is more likely the one to convert to
(if one even wants to convert from an embedded profile anyway).
As for the `Preferences > Image Import & Export > Color profile policy`,
they now propose 4 choices: Ask, Keep embedded profile, Convert to
built-in or preferred profiles.
… gimp_image_policy_color_profile().
These functions allow a plug-in to explicitly execute the Rotation and
Profile conversion policies on an image (which may be any of
Rotating/Discarding/Ask or Converting/Keeping/Ask respectively). These
policies are automatically executed when loading an image from GIMP
interfaces, but they won't be when loading an image from the PDB. Then
it is up to the calling code to decide what to do (which can be either
some arbitrary code or following the user policy).
Orientation is now handled by core code, just next to profile conversion
handling.
One of the first consequence is that we don't need to have a non-GUI
version gimp_image_metadata_load_finish_batch() in libgimp, next to a
GUI version of the gimp_image_metadata_load_finish() function in
libgimpui. This makes for simpler API.
Also a plug-in which wishes to get access to the rotation dialog
provided by GIMP without loading ligimpui/GTK+ (for whatever reason)
will still have the feature.
The main advantage is that the "Don't ask me again" feature is now
handled by a settings in `Preferences > Image Import & Export` as the
"Metadata rotation policy". Until now it was saved as a global parasite,
which made it virtually non-editable once you checked it once (no easy
way to edit parasites except by scripts). So say you refused the
rotation once while checking "Don't ask again", and GIMP will forever
discard the rotation metadata without giving you a sane way to change
your mind. Of course, I could have passed the settings to plug-ins
through the PDB, but I find it a lot better to simply handle such
settings core-side.
The dialog code is basically the same as an app/dialogs/ as it was in
libgimp, with the minor improvement that it now takes the scale ratio
into account (basically the maximum thumbnail size will be bigger on
higher density displays).
Only downside of the move to the core is that this rotation dialog is
raised only when you open an image from the core, not as a PDB call. So
a plug-in which makes say a "file-jpeg-load" PDB call, even in
INTERACTIVE run mode, won't have rotation processed. Note that this was
already the same for embedded color profile conversion. This can be
wanted or not. Anyway some additional libgimp calls might be of interest
to explicitly call the core dialogs.
Plug-ins that work from different bindings probably want to use their
own list-type to specify arguments, rather than working with a more
cumbersome `GimpValueArray`.
This new API should make it less verbose. For example:
```
args = Gimp.ValueArray.new(5)
args.insert(0, GObject.Value(Gimp.RunMode, Gimp.RunMode.NONINTERACTIVE))
args.insert(1, GObject.Value(Gimp.Image, image))
args.insert(2, GObject.Value(Gimp.Drawable, mask))
args.insert(3, GObject.Value(GObject.TYPE_INT, int(time.time())))
args.insert(4, GObject.Value(GObject.TYPE_DOUBLE, turbulence))
Gimp.get_pdb().run_procedure('plug-in-plasma', args)
```
becomes
```
Gimp.get_pdb().run_procedure('plug-in-plasma', [
GObject.Value(Gimp.RunMode, Gimp.RunMode.NONINTERACTIVE),
GObject.Value(Gimp.Image, image),
GObject.Value(Gimp.Drawable, mask),
GObject.Value(GObject.TYPE_INT, int(time.time())),
GObject.Value(GObject.TYPE_DOUBLE, turbulence),
])
```
The rotation was actually applied but the image had an orientation
metadata stored which is not visible in GIMP canvas (only checked at
import).
If GIMP had on-canvas viewing support of the orientation metadata, then
it would make sense to keep it between import and export, but since it
doesn't, we should assume that when someone asks to "Keep Original"
during import, they are actually asking to drop the metadata (which
actually can be wrong in various cases, in particular when you snap
pictures of the ground or the sky, then sensors are lost anyway and
regularly can't guess what orientation you wanted). This will make for
less unexpected exports.
gimpimagemetadata.[ch] was built into libgimpui because GTK+ was used
for dialog query for rotation metadata. gimpimagemetadata-save.c only
was built into libgimp, which made no sense as the declaration for its
public function was inside gimpimagemetadata.h!
That was a weird situation and somehow only made visible in the build
system because GIR build was complaining about missing annotations to
gimp_image_metadata_save_prepare() (the annotation was actually present
but in the implementation which was not in the same library as the
header, how weird!):
> Warning: GimpUi: gimp_image_metadata_save_prepare: return value: Missing (transfer) annotation
Moreover it means that only plug-ins linking libgimpui had access to the
gimp_image_metadata*() API, which is obviously not cool (that should be
a core API).
Instead I moved everything into libgimp and replaced
gimp_image_metadata_load_finish() with
gimp_image_metadata_load_finish_batch(), which is essentially the same
function except that it's not interactive (it will proceed to rotate the
image without user confirmation, provided the right flag is present).
Then I add gimpimagemetadata-interactive.[ch] which contains only
gimp_image_metadata_load_finish() and is the alternative interactive
version of gimp_image_metadata_load_finish_batch(). Most plug-ins won't
even have to be changed (at least none in core GIMP) and would still
work as before, whereas now a non-interactive version exists, which
doesn't mandate to link GTK+.
The list of selected layers may be empty, which doesn't matter much
because we don't actually do much with this list in current export code.
In the code modified in this commit, we were only using existing layers
to set the type of a new layer (which seems very useless right now as
anyway the layer type has to be the image base type with or without
alpha, so a with_alpha boolean parameter would be just as good, unless
we plan to support different color model layers in a same image).
Add a new GIMP_EXPORT_NEEDS_CROP export capability, which causes
gimp_export_image() to crop the exported image content to the image
bounds; this is useful for formats that support layers, but have no
concept of global image bounds, hence cropping is the only way to
enforce the image bounds.
When showing the export dialog, give an option to either crop the
layers to the image bounds, or to resize the image to fit the
layers.
The GDK_WINDOWING_X11 build-time macro check is not enough as GDK can be
built with both X11 and Wayland backends. We need to add a runtime check
of the type of display.
In begin_run() and end_run(), sync string properties set to
GIMP_ARGUMENT_SYNC_PARASITE with image parasites of the same name,
exactly the way "gimp-comment" was handled by begin_export() and
end_export(). Remove the "gimp-comment" handling code from
begin_export() and end_export().
which can be set to GIMP_ARGUMENT_SYNC_NONE (the default) or
GIMP_ARGUMENT_SYNC_PARASITE, which indicates that the argument should
be synced with an image parasite of the same name.
This implied a lot of other core changes, which also pushed me into
improving some of the edit actions and PDB calls to be multi-layer aware
in the same time.
Note that it is still work-in-progress, but I just had to commit
something in an acceptable intermediate state otherwise I was just going
crazy.
In particular now the various transform tools are multi-layer aware and
work simultaneously on all selected layers (and the linked layers if any
of the selected layers is linked too). Both preview and final transform
processing works.
In the limitations, preview doesn't work well (only one layer in the
preview) when there is a selection (though the actual transform works).
Also I am left to wonder how we should process this case of canvas
selection+transform on multi-layers. Indeed currently I am just creating
a floating selection (like we used to for the selection+transform case)
containing a transform result of the composited version of all selected
layers. This is a possible expected result, but another could be to get
several transformed layers (without composition). But then should the
"Floating Selection" concept allow for multiple Floating Selections?
Sooo many questions left to answer.
We're exposing symbols in our header files like `GType`, `GFile` and
others, without actually including the proper headers. This also gives
errors in the GIR scanner (who can't resolve those symbols).
This fixes bugs introduced in commit a7c59277fb where I obviously didn't
properly checked all the places where gimp_selection_float() was used
after its parameters changed.
Color picking on a single layer still works as it used to. On multiple
layer, it will now pick on the composited color, similarly to sample
merged if only selected layers were made visible.
The PDB/libgimp function gimp_image_pick_color() is also updated to work
on multiple drawables too, giving the same ability to plug-ins (the only
call to this function in core plug-ins have been updated).
When several layers are selected, select their render, similar to how
"edit-copy-visible" would have copied an image with only these layers
made visible.
Also apply the same logics to PDB function gimp_edit_copy() which can
now be used on several drawables at once.
This commit just changes our saving API (i.e. the GimpSaveProcedure
class) to take an array of drawables as argument instead of a single
drawable.
It actually doesn't matter much for exporting as the whole API seems
more or less bogus there and all formats plug-ins mostly care only
whether they will merge/flatten all visible layers (the selected ones
don't really matter) or if the format supports layers of some sort. It
may be worth later strengthening a bit this whole logics, and maybe
allow partial exports for instance.
As for saving, it was not even looking at the passed GimpDrawable either
and was simply re-querying the active layer anyway.
Note that I don't implement the multi-selection saving in XCF yet in
this commit. I only updated the API. The reason is that the current
commit won't be backportable to gimp-2-10 because it is an API break. On
the other hand, the code to save multi-selection can still be backported
even though the save() API will only pass a single drawable (as I said
anyway, this argument was mostly bogus until now, hence it doesn't
matter much for 2.10 logics).
By using Meson's `declare_dependency()`, we can avoid specifying the
linked libraries, dependencies and includes we need over and over again.
Basically, this conceptually acts like an internal pkg-config.
Especially need to watch out with forgetting `(array)` and `(out)`
annotations, as they can really give a different API in certain (if not
most) bindings.
When using GIR-based bindings that will eventually include the header
files (like Vala), we need to make sure to tell the gir-scanner what
file that is. Otherwise tools like `vapigen` have to make an educated
guess (which will be wrong).
GObject introspection has issues handling random vfuncs (i.e. not part
of a GObject). Most of all, it needs to be able to give these a name
(so they can be used to cast in some higher level languages for
example). As such, give each vfunc in `GimpProgressVtable` a separate
typedef.
