[gimp/tito: 45/50] Replacing the tito readme with the original readme
- From: Jehan Pagès <jehanp src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp/tito: 45/50] Replacing the tito readme with the original readme
- Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 23:22:00 +0000 (UTC)
commit a6ae9d8324c15721e4c290e0bfd69991dfe94e31
Author: Srihari Sriraman <srihari c42 in>
Date: Sun Jul 21 09:09:10 2013 +0530
Replacing the tito readme with the original readme
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-Tito
-====
-
-With small (but awesome) additions, this is still The GIMP.
-
-See the [demo](http://youtu.be/G0PuH1LFWhA?hd=1) for an insight into the usage.
-
-
-Tito is a text input tool developed for the GIMP as a first attempt
-to add an
- `intent driven interface` that helps to get at the menus faster.
-
-If,
- - You forgot where something appears in the menu,
- - or find it cumbersome to traverse through the menu everytime,
- - or forgot a shortcut,
- - or choose what you want from a bunch of smiliar actions,
- then Tito should help you.
-
-`Press [Shift+?] to activate Tito`
-
-### See the following sections for more information:
- - [Algorithm](#i-algorithm)
- - [UI/UX](#ii-ui-ux)
- - [Ideas](#iii-ideas-not-yet-implemented)
- - [Pitfalls](#iv-pitfalls)
-
-
-## [I] Algorithm
-
-### Data
-##### *What is searched?*
- 1.User-readable texts of Menuitems, Tools, Dockable-dialogs and Plugins:
- Labels(as they appear in the menus)
- Tooltips(small descriptions) of all actions
- 2. User history [Previously applied actions through Tito]
- 3. Avoides search in main-menus, popups and context-actions
-
-### Mechanism
- 1.Labels first
- 2.If keyword is two characters,
- then match them with first letters of first and second word in the labels.
- [Ex: 'gb' will list 'Gaussian Blur...']
- 3.Tooltips
- When keyword is longer than two characters
- [Tooltips need to be searched because they might contain vital keywords
- that might be absent in the labels. Ex: 'adjust' will list 'Canvas Size...']
- 4.User history
- If keyword matches with previously applied actions, it is listed first.
- [Also, the list of previously used actions appears when the down-arrow key is pressed]
-
-### Adaptiveness
- Frequently used actions appear higher in the results list.
- This is great when dealing with frequently used menuitems that don't have shortcuts.
- Over a period of time, this would largely reduce the number of keystrokes.
-
-
-## [II] UI / UX
-
-### Keyword entry
- Occupies minimal space, does not hinder with work-area
- Has the look and feel of a search-bar with editable text area
- Preferences:
- Position
- -Right top [Default, and most used location for a search bar]
- -Middle [For those who can't take their eyes off the canvas]
- -User specific [Adjust by giving coordinates]
- [The coordinates are in percentages that are limited by the current width]
- Width
- Adjustable from 20% to 60% of screen width_hbox
-
-### Results list
- A navigable dropdown-list of runnable actions
- Each result shows:
- - The icon corresponding to the action
- - The Label as in the menus
- - A corresponding shortcut if available
- - A short description (tooltip) if available
- A result, after selection, can be 'applied' by
- -Hitting return
- -Double click
- Preferences:
- Height [Show more/less results]
-
-### Toggle actions
- Actions like 'Show Grid' or "Single-Window Mode" are displayed with
- appropriate icons that indicate their state
-
-### Autohide
- A preference that would help toggle the visibility of Tito.
- If not set, then Tito would remain over GIMP
- and the user would press [Shift+?] to switch to Tito
-
-### Show inert actions
- If set, then the actions that are currently unavailable
- would be shown, but 'greyed-out'. If not set, they would not be shown.
-
-### Quick apply
- Hitting return while in the keyword area runs the first result.
-
-
-
-## [III] Ideas (not yet implemented)
-
-### Thesaurus
- Map the dictionary of image editing with the GIMP terminology.
- So, 'scale', 'resize', 'shrink', 'expand' could transform to a single meaning.
-
-### Wider search
- Search through the user help/documentation.
- Search based on menu hierarchy.
-
-### Highlight keywords in result
-
-### Command system
- An epic addition to the GIMP interface that would allow entering commands
- or a sequence of commands to perform complex manipulations.
-
-
-
-## [IV] Pitfalls
-
-### Menu Path
- Tried and failed in attaining the menu-path, ui-path that corresponds to an action.
- There is apparently no Gtk mechanism to do this.
- The only way to do this would be to parse the entire menu ui XML,
- which would increase the complexity enormously and put limitations on performance.
-
-### Autocomplete
- To reduce the number of keystrokes to search and apply, we tried different mechanisms
- of 'auto-complete' and settled with the very basics.
-
-### Advanced search
- We tried using a search engine to parse through XML databases that contained
- organized information. We indexed the text and used APIs to invoke the search engine.
- This turned out to be an overkill.
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+ ------------------------------
+ GNU Image Manipulation Program
+ 2.8 Stable Branch
+ ------------------------------
+
+GIMP 2.8 replaces earlier GIMP 2.x versions. It is advised that you
+uninstall them before installing GIMP 2.8. If you want to keep your
+older GIMP 2.x installation in parallel to GIMP 2.8, you have to
+choose a separate prefix which is not in your default library search
+path. Otherwise your prevoius GIMP installation will start to use the
+new libraries. You have been warned.
+
+If you think you found a bug in this version, please make sure that it
+hasn't been reported earlier and that it is not just new stuff that is
+still being worked on and obviously not quite finished yet.
+
+If you want to hack on GIMP, please read the file HACKING. For
+detailed installation instructions, see the file INSTALL.
+
+
+1. Web Resources
+================
+
+GIMP's home page is at:
+
+ http://www.gimp.org/
+
+Please be sure to visit this site for information, documentation,
+tutorials, news, etc. All things GIMP-ish are available from there.
+
+The automated plug-in registry is located at:
+
+ http://registry.gimp.org/
+
+There you can get the latest versions of plug-ins, using a convenient
+forms-based interface.
+
+The latest version of GIMP can be found at:
+
+ http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
+
+
+2. Mailing Lists
+================
+
+We have several mailing lists dedicated to GIMP user and development
+discussion. There is more info at
+
+ http://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html
+
+Links to several archives of the mailing lists are included in that page.
+
+Gimp-user-list is a mailing list dedicated to user problems, hints and
+tips, discussion of cool effects, etc. Gimp-developer-list is oriented
+to GIMP core and plug-in developers. Most people will only want to be
+subscribed to gimp-user-list. If you want to help develop GIMP, the
+gimp-developer mailing list is a good starting point.
+
+
+3. IRC
+======
+
+And finally, for the real junkies, there is an IRC channel devoted to
+GIMP. On GIMPNet (a private free software oriented network) there is
+#gimp. Many of the developers hang out there. Some of the GIMPNet
+servers are:
+
+ irc.gimp.org:6667
+ irc.us.gimp.org:6667
+ irc.eu.gimp.org:6667
+
+
+4. Customizing
+==============
+
+The look of GIMP's interface can be customized like any other GTK app
+by editing the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file or by using "themes" (ready-made
+customizations). For downloadable themes and further details, see
+http://art.gnome.org/themes/gtk2 . Additionally, GIMP reads the file
+~/.config/GIMP/2.8/gtkrc so you can have settings that only apply to GIMP.
+
+Included is a set of keybindings similar to those in Adobe Photoshop.
+You can find them in the ps-menurc file. To use them, copy this file
+to ~/.config/GIMP/2.8/menurc. You can also manually change the keybindings to
+any of your choice by editing ~/.config/GIMP/2.8/menurc.
+
+
+Have fun,
+
+ Spencer Kimball
+ Peter Mattis
+ Federico Mena
+ Manish Singh
+ Sven Neumann
+ Michael Natterer
+ Dave Neary
+ Martin Nordholts
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