When the clipboard contains raw image data or single layers, it's the same as
the normal "Paste" (and "Paste In Place" respectively). These actions are useful
if you want to copy a bunch of layers and paste them "merged" into a single
layers (since now the copy-paste of multiple layers will create multiple
layers).
It is somehow similar to the "Copy Visible" action except that it works on
selected layers only and work at paste time, making the action more versatile.
This changes the default selection pasting behavior to be a new layer,
rather than a floating selection. It also removes the
"Paste as New Layer" submenu options as they are now redundant.
There was one case in Inkscape which we could not do: distributing objects
keeping even gaps between them. Until now, we could only distribute keeping even
distance between anchor points (top, left, bottom, right or center).
With these 2 additional distribute options, I believe that GIMP is able to do
all the Alignment and Distribution options available in Inkscape (not the
"Rearrange" or node features, neither the text align/distrib; I just mean the
common align/distribute on objects), and even a bit more thanks to the anchor
point system (e.g. in Inkscape, we can't left or right-align to a reference
object/image center, or we can't center to a reference left/right/bottom/top
border; but we can do it in GIMP).
The icons are hopefully temporary, until we can make better ones.
- Adding a separate pivot widget to allow choosing which point of the items we
align or distribute. E.g. until now, we could only align the right side of
objects to the right side of the reference object, left to left and center to
center. Now these are independent. Therefore I can align the left side of
objects to the right border of a selection or a layer, and so on.
- Only keep 2 "distribute" buttons (for now). Most of the distribution actions
were basically broken or extremely hard to understand. Also they were
apparently mixing concepts of alignments with distributions. Now let's
basically only keep the bases: horizontal or vertical distributions.
Everything is still possible using a mix of alignment and distribution
buttons, and it's much clearer.
- Since the GimpAlignmentType was used nearly only there (except for some usage
like to store dock side or filter preview split direction, but these
GIMP_ARRANGE_* values were unused there), I removed the various enum values
which we don't use anymore.
- The Reference settings gets its own subsection in the Align tool options.
Until now, it looked like it only applied to alignment, whereas it applies to
distribution too.
Note: this is still work-in-progress, mostly some initial dev work to put some
algorithmic bases. We had some UI and specification discussions with Aryeom
already and some things might still change a lot.
The old interaction was quite horrible. I don't think I ever really got a good
use of it. It was so hard to understand what you were picking and so on.
Now that we can multi-select items, let's just use this as the base of what we
want to align or distribute. Clicking on canvas will now mostly be used to pick
an item as reference. From now on, only the reference object will get on-canvas
handle, making it very obvious how your alignment or distribution will work.
I leave only an alternative picking method (with Alt or Shift-Alt pick) to add
guides to objects to align or distributes, as these don't have a selection
dockable.
I'm also improving the selection of stacked layers by looping through them
(similar as the layer selection on canvas feature) so that we can select even
background layers which have a lot of layers showing above.
I am planning to improve this tool even further, but this is a first step to
make it actually usable within the new multi-item interaction logic.
I cleaned many remaining places where the concept of linked item still
survived.
On loading an XCF file with linked items, we are now going to create a
named sets for the linked items, allowing people to easily select these
back if the relation was still needed.
We don't remove gimp_item_get_linked() yet and in particular, we don't
save stored items into XCF files. This will come in an upcoming change.
- removing the GIMP_ITEM_SET_LINKED enum value.
- removing gimp_image_item_list_linked(). Now we should directly use
gimp_image_item_list_filter() instead.
- "preview-linked" option for transform tools is no more.
The 3 available formats are: simple text search, regular expressions and
glob patterns (cf. previous commit). I did a small step back from
previous commit by getting "is-pattern" property back in GimpItemList
instead of having this case as a value of GimpSelectMethod. The reason
is that it would render a useless value in the Preferences combo box.
Text search is the default.
… search syntaxes.
The layer tree view is only using regexp so far, but the core code is
updated to allow more.
Simple text search is actually a bit more than "simple". It implies
tokenization of the text, Unicode normalization and case-folding. It
will also search with ASCII alternatives when possible. This includes
things like non-accented ASCII characters matching accented variants
which is neat.
Now it's not perfect. For instance tokenization seems very limited to
writing systems with spaces or alike. In particular, I tested with
Japanese and since you would typically write without spaces, a whole
group of several words would be one token. Since the text search
algorithm only search from token start, this is quite a failure as you
can't search with intermediate words only.
… and drop the link cell (the lock cell takes the space).
This is an experiment with the following logics:
* I am getting rid on the linked item logics, so the icon cell
disappears anyway.
* The lock buttons are not so visible above the Layers dockable and so
many have I seen people frustrated of not being able to do some action
until they realize they locked something in the layer (even sometimes
advanced users).
The icon next to the eye is much more visible. Also I will now display
different icons depending on the type of locks. If a single lock is in
effect, I show the corresponding icon. If 2 or more locks are in
effect, I show a generic lock icon.
* With multi-selection of items in particular, this top lock row was a
lot more weird and could show inconsistent state (some of the
selection is locked, other is not). Now the per-row lock icon allows a
much nicer granularity.
Sometimes one may want to lock visibility of a given layer. This is very
useful in particular when shift-clicking a layer visibility. In this
case, it won't be included in the list of layer to update. This can be
used for instance if you want some layers always visible (or always
hidden) while setting exclusive visibility of some other layers only.
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.
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.
Both with the various action layers-lock-alpha, layers-opacity-* and
layers-mode-*, as well as through the layer tree view GUI (alpha lock
icon, opacity slider and layer mode combo box).
Which is a linear transform of xyY that is more perceptually
uniform, and so well-suited for eventually adding chromaticity
diagrams to GIMP color tools. ACES documentation uses this color
space instead of xyY for showing chromaticity diagrams. Moving
forward I expect other venues also will start using Yu'v' as
the advantages over xyY chromaticity diagrams are fairly obvious.
Add a new gimp_image_transform() function, which transforms the
entire image, including all layers, channels (including selection
mask), vectors, guides, and sample points, according to a
transformation matrix. The canvas is resized according to the
clip_result parameter, the same way drawables are resized during
transformation; the layers are resized using ADJUST mode
regardless.
...doesn't work
Rename the labels to "built-in sRGB color profile" and "built-in
grayscale color profile" because that's what the option does, it never
converted to the preferred profiles from preferences.
Allow setting the type of GimpCurve control-points to either SMOOTH
or CORNER. Smooth points produce a smooth curve, while corner
points produce a sharp curve (previously, all points were smooth).
In GimpCureView, display corner points using a diamond shape,
instead of a circle.
In the Curves tool, allow changing the curve's point types.
Add xyY color space to the color spaces for sampling colors.
Also add code to xcf-load.c that makes sure the sample point loading
code handles unknown future GimpColorPickMode values (fall back to
PIXEL pick mode).
It was not doing anything right since space invasion. We now treat the
built-in sRGB profile like any other profile and never bypass
conversions based on some weird toggle.
Instead, introduce a "Use sRGB Profile" toggle which, when enabled,
hides whatever profile away so the image actually uses the built-in
sRGB profile.
This is different from discarding and then re-assigning the same
profile only by being faster and more convenient.
Add gimp_drawable_set_format() as low-level part of
gimp_layer_fix_format_space(), and add a special undo type for it that
only remembers the format and not the entire drawable buffer, because
all pixels stay the same.
All babl formats now have a space equivalent to a color profile,
determining the format's primaries and TRCs. This commit makes GIMP
aware of this.
libgimp:
- enum GimpPrecision: rename GAMMA values to NON_LINEAR and keep GAMMA
as deprecated aliases, add PERCEPTUAL values so we now have LINEAR,
NON_LINEAR and PERCPTUAL for each encoding, matching the babl
encoding variants RGB, R'G'B' and R~G~B~.
- gimp_color_transform_can_gegl_copy() now returns TRUE if both
profiles can return a babl space, increasing the amount of fast babl
color conversions significantly.
- TODO: no solution yet for getting libgimp drawable proxy buffers in
the right format with space.
plug-ins:
- follow the GimpPrecision change.
- TODO: everything else unchanged and partly broken or sub-optimal,
like setting a new image's color profile too late.
app:
- add enum GimpTRCType { LINEAR, NON_LINEAR, PERCEPTUAL } as
replacement for all "linear" booleans.
- change gimp-babl functions to take babl spaces and GimpTRCType
parameters and support all sorts of new perceptual ~ formats.
- a lot of places changed in the early days of goat invasion didn't
take advantage of gimp-babl utility functions and constructed
formats manually. They all needed revisiting and many now use much
simpler code calling gimp-babl API.
- change gimp_babl_format_get_color_profile() to really extract a
newly allocated color profile from the format, and add
gimp_babl_get_builtin_color_profile() which does the same as
gimp_babl_format_get_color_profile() did before. Visited all callers
to decide whether they are looking for the format's actual profile,
or for one of the builtin profiles, simplifying code that only needs
builtin profiles.
- drawables have a new get_space_api(), get_linear() is now get_trc().
- images now have a "layer space" and an API to get it,
gimp_image_get_layer_format() returns formats in that space.
- an image's layer space is created from the image's color profile,
change gimpimage-color-profile to deal with that correctly
- change many babl_format() calls to babl_format_with_space() and take
the space from passed formats or drawables
- add function gimp_layer_fix_format_space() which replaces the
layer's buffer with one that has the image's layer format, but
doesn't change pixel values
- use gimp_layer_fix_format_space() to make sure layers loaded from
XCF and created by plug-ins have the right space when added to the
image, because it's impossible to always assign the right space upon
layer creation
- "assign color profile" and "discard color profile" now require use
of gimp_layer_fix_format_space() too because the profile is now
embedded in all formats via the space. Add
gimp_image_assign_color_profile() which does all that and call it
instead of a simple gimp_image_set_color_profile(), also from the
PDB set-color-profile functions, which are essentially "assign" and
"discard" calls.
- generally, make sure a new image's color profile is set before
adding layers to it, gimp_image_set_color_profile() is more than
before considered know-what-you-are-doing API.
- take special precaution in all places that call
gimp_drawable_convert_type(), we now must pass a new_profile from
all callers that convert layers within the same image (such as
image_convert_type, image_convert_precision), because the layer's
new space can't be determined from the image's layer format during
the call.
- change all "linear" properties to "trc", in all config objects like
for levels and curves, in the histogram, in the widgets. This results
in some GUI that now has three choices instead of two.
TODO: we might want to reduce that back to two later.
- keep "linear" boolean properties around as compat if needed for file
pasring, but always convert the parsed parsed boolean to
GimpTRCType.
- TODO: the image's "enable color management" switch is currently
broken, will fix that in another commit.
It seems it was simply forgotten. PROP_MASK_ALL is used at some very
central places, so this commit might fix a few subtle bugs, or
introduce new ones, everybody look for strange tool preset behavior
please :)
While most of our transform tools use an interactive transform
grid, and have similar behavior, the flip tool is an odd one out.
The new "auto straighten" function of the measure tool introduces
another tool that performs transformations, while not behaving like
the rest of the transform tools.
Factor out the parts of GimpTransformTool that handle user
interaction into GimpTransformGridTool (with corresponding
GimpTransformGridOptions, and GimpTransformGridToolUndo), and only
leave the basic transform functionality and options in
GimpTransformTool (and GimpTransformOptions).
Derive all the transform tools (and transform-tool base classes)
that previously derived from GimpTransformTool, from
GimpTransformGridTool. The one exception is GimpFlipTool, which
still derives from GimpTransformTool directly. The next commit
will derive GimpMeasureTool from GimpTransformTool as well.
... raises a CRITICAL
gimp_item_{start,end}_move() currently serves two different
purposes: It is used by GimpLayer to suspend/resume mask resizing
of the layer's ancestors; this is necessary whenever an operation
on a layer might affect the size of its ancestors. It is also used
by GimpGroupLayer to suspend/resume its own mask resizing; this, on
the other hand, is only necessary before applying one of the
transformation functions to the group, so that mask modification is
handled by GimpLayer. In other words, the effects of
gimp_item_{start,end}_move() on group layers are only necessary in
a subset of the cases in which these functions are used.
While in itself this isn't a problem, it does cause issues when
removing a group layer: gimp_image_remove_layer() calls
gimp_item_start_move() before removing the layer, and
gimp_item_end_move() afterwards. While the former function is
called while the layer is still attached to the image, the latter
function is called after the layer is no longer attached. Since
GimpGroupLayer pushes an undo step in response to these calls, only
the call to start_move() results in an undo step, while the call to
end_move() doesn't, resulting in an unbalanced
GIMP_UNDO_GROUP_LAYER_START_MOVE undo step on the stack. This
causes problems when undoing the operation.
Add gimp_item_{start,end}_transform() functions, and corresponding
GimpItem::{start,end}_transform() virtual functions, which are more
specialized versions of gimp_item_{start,end}_move(), which should
be used instead of the former before/after transforming an item; in
other cases, such as when removing ot reordering an item,
gimp_item_{start,end}_move() should still be used. The default
implementation of GimpItem::{start,end}_transform() calls
gimp_item_{start,end}_move(), respectively, so subclasses that
override these functions don't have to do that themselves.
In GimpGroupLayer, override GimpItem::{start,end}_transform(),
instead of GimpItem::{start,end}_move(), for the same purpose of
suspending mask resize. This avoids these functions from being
called when removing a layer group, fixing the bug.
In gimp_image_reorder_item(), call gimp_item_start/end_move()
before/after reordering the item (and use an undo group, so that
the resulting undo actions are grouped together with the reordering
undo action,) so that if the item is a child of a group layer, and
reordering moves it out of the group in a way that causes the
group's mask to be resized, the mask will be properly restored when
undoing the operation.
In gimp_group_layer_{start,end}_move(), push corresponding undo
steps, which perform the opposite operation during undo, and make
sure that mask-cropping is frozen during group-layer move
operations.
This fixed erroneous group-layer mask cropping when undoing/redoing
a group-layer move operation multiple times.
Since a few commits, I don't generate the traces anymore in errors.c but
delay this to gui-message.c and rely on the message severity to decide
whether or not generating traces.
Unfortunately none of the current severities are properly describing
this new type of messages. Even GIMP_MESSAGE_ERROR is used everywhere in
our code NOT for actual programming bug, but often for data errors
(which are not bugs but proper messages and should obviously not prompt
a debug trace).
Replacing the boolean property "generate-backtrace" by an enum
"debug-policy". This property allows one to choose whether to debug
WARNING, CRITICAL and FATAL (crashes), or CRITICAL and FATAL only, or
only FATAL, or finally nothing.
By default, a stable release will debug CRITICAL and crashes, and
unstable builds will start debugging at WARNINGs.
The reason for the settings is that if you stumble upon a reccurring bug
in your workflow (and this bug is not major enough for data corruption,
and "you can live with it"), you still have to wait for a new release.
At some point, you may want to disable getting a debug dialog, at least
temporarily. Oppositely, even when using a stable build, you may want to
obtain debug info for lesser issues, even WARNINGs, if you wish to help
the GIMP project.
It can be argued though whether the value GIMP_DEBUG_POLICY_NEVER is
really useful. There is nothing to gain from refusing debugging info
when the software crashed anyway. But I could still imagine that someone
is not interested in helping at all. It's sad but not like we are going
to force people to report. Let's just allow disabling the whole
debugging system.
Add layer-mask support for group layers. Group-layer masks work
similarly to ordinary-layer masks, with the following
considerations:
The group's mask size is the same as group's size (i.e., the
bounding box of its children) at all times. When the group's size
changes, the mask is cropped to the new size -- areas of the mask
that fall outside of the new bounds are discarded and their data is
lost (sans undo), and newly added areas are filled with black (and
hence are transparent by default).
The new gimp_group_layer_{suspend,resume}_mask() functions can be
used to modify this behavior. Between the outermost pair of
suspend/resume calls, the old mask data is remembered, and is used
to fill the newly added areas while cropping the mask when the
group is resized. We override GimpItem::{start,end}_move() for
GimpLayer, to call these functions (suspend() in start_move(), and
resume() in end_move()) for each of the layer's ancestors.
As a result, while moving a layer, or a set of layers, atomically,
such as while dragging with the move tool, or moving linked layers,
the ancestors' mask data is not lost, and is only discarded at the
end of the operation.
This commit also takes care of properly handling undo for group-
layer mask crops, properly invalidating the image when the group
layer's mask is shown, and enabling the mask actions for group
layers (obviously :).
It never belonged inside "tools". Also rename its "pdb" subdirectory
to "groups". This had to happen before 2.10 so cherry-picking between
branches doesn't become a nightmare in the future.
The value descriptions of GimpGradientColor,
GimpGradientSegmentColor, and GimpGradientSegmentType enums appear
in the on-canvas gradient editor UI, as combo-box items in the tool
GUI overlay. Since we want to keep the overlay as small as
possible, we previously used abbreviations for these descriptions
(e.g., "FG (t)", instead of "Foreground (transparent)").
Replace the abbreviated descriptions with unabbreviated ones, and
move the abbreviations to the "abbrev" parameter. This way we get
the abbreviated version in the combo-box, and the full version in
the combo-box's menu.
Add "In Place" variants for all sorts of pasting:
- extend the GimpPasteType enum with IN_PLACE values
- add the needed actions and menu items
- merge the action callbacks into one, taking an enum value as parameter
- refactor the pasting code in gimp-edit.c into smaller functions
We probably have too menu items in the "Edit" menu now, needs to be
sorted out.
