Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP useability - choosing linear vs perceptually uniform RGB

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 05/01/2015 08:46 AM, Douglas Ray wrote:
> On 1/05/15 12:00 PM, Gez wrote:
> > El jue, 30-04-2015 a las 17:40 -0400, Elle Stone escribió:
> > > http://ninedegreesbelow.com/bug-reports/gimp-linear-perceptual-rgb.html
> > >
> > > Is what's shown in the screenshots feasible in terms of linking the
> > > operations to the proposed UI?
>
> I like this solution.
>
> I'd like it more if (in Elle's "sample editing operation", and
> "sample tool dialog"; not the layer stack) the "L" and "P"
> widgets had an adjoining text field which spelt out the current
> setting.

I like the idea of spelling out Linear and Perceptual, except of course 
not on Layers.

> Implementing and maintaining this would be simpler if the widgets
> actually used were from existing widget classes (eg, the button /
> drop-down-menu visible as the "Brush" and "Dynamics" controls in
> Elle's "sample tool dialog").  Sorry - less pretty.

Reuseable code is good!

> (That said, I mostly use GIMP for RGB -> CMYK.  If controls were
> implemented with sufficient generality to graft in CMYK, sometime
> in my lifetime, that would be oh so dandy.)

Perusing old posts about using GIMP and putting aside the request for 
high bit depth editing as a done deal, this seems to be the number one 
user request for people considering switching to GIMP, right alongside 
better color management and non-destructive adjustment layers.

Best,
Elle