Re: [Gimp-developer] Warp transform Abyss policy

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 07:01:10AM -0400, Ell wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 07:44:28 +0200
> Marco Ciampa via gimp-developer-list <gimp-developer-list gnome org>
> wrote:
>
> > Veeery interesting indeed Ell! And also very clear!
> > Do you know exactly which tools share this same option?
>
> Warp is the only tool that has an abyss policy option, IIRC.  As for
> filters, convolution matrix, displace, edge, fractal trace, and Gaussian
> blur all have this option, although some of them call it "border" or
> "border behavior" instead.  Bump map, ripple, and waves also have a
> toggle that switches between two of the abyss policy modes, although
> they call it "clamp", or "tiled/tileable".

Ok probably a more coherent choice for a label for all these tools would
be a good idea...

> > Your example seems to come from the whirl-pinch distortion filter but
> > I do not see any abyss option in the filter option dialog... even in
> > any other filter option dialog... am I looking in the wrong place?
>
> The example uses the warp tool, of course :)  It is in swirl mode,
> though, as you guessed.  The whirl/pinch filter indeed lacks this
> option.
>
> > PS: also I see that in the warp tool the Abyss options remains
> > translated in my system language (Italian) even if I set the gimp
> > language to English... here and there there are some other translated
> > particulars like 4 controls in the render->patterns->checkboard
> > filter, tooltips, keyboard accelerators...small bug?
>
> The text for the abyss policy items comes from GEGL.  It seems that
> switching the language in the preferences only affects GIMP text, and
> not GEGL.  We should probably fix that, since it affects all the GEGL
> filters.

Very good catch!

Now you said it I see that all the untranslated operations are GEGL... :-)

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Marco Ciampa

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