Re: [Gimp-developer] Bug 155733 - discussion of approach (bug: need to check return values of gimp_drawable_mask_bounds())

[Burnie West <west ieee org>]

On 01/03/2012 06:49 AM, Neil wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:09 PM, <gg catking net <mailto:gg catking net>> wrote:
>
>     My original comment about sharpen not working seems to have been a local
>     problem, that is now fixed. I thought this may be relevant to your issue.
>
> Yeah, it could have been. I tried to reproduce it before I read your second 
> message :)
>
>     If blur does not have a dialog it must be a one size fits all and may as
>     well be removed! It clearly is not properly integrated into GIMP if it
>     gets listed as "reshow" when it was never shown.
>
>     My earlier bug report here on sharpen showed it got integrated into menu
>     as both "reshow" and "redo" even when I cancelled without doing a change.
>
>     These are more like UI defects but I thought it may have something to do
>     with dialogue failures not exiting cleanly or at the right time. I could
>     not imagine someone adding a blur that was not adjustable, that's just dumb.
>
>
> I tend to agree that the reshow/redo behaviour feels like a UI bug/misfeature 
> but I'm a novice here - others may feel differently (?).
> And I was also caught by surprise recently by the blur behaviour - I had 
> thought it had a dialog box but perhaps I have always used one of the other 
> blurs (which does)... Perhaps it's there as a "simple" tool for beginners?
With my version (2.6.11) "Blur" does an uncontrolled blur of about 4 pixels, 
then in the edit menu provides a "Fade blur" option ranging from 0-100%. This 
actually works pretty well for a couple of things I did to clean up some garbage 
pixels.
> Neil
>
>
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