Re: [Gimp-gui] Make the selected tool default to the Color Picker instead of the last tool used

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

Le 6 nov. 2015 à 08:18, Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> a 
écrit :

> On 11/05/2015 05:39 PM, Jehan wrote:
> > > That would leave all the tools that are under various menus, but 
> > > don't
> > > have icons to put them in the toolbox. Maybe a generic icon for "all
> > > other tools?
> >
> > Which tools? Are you sure they are tools and not filters?
>
> Most are filters, as they are under the filters menu. And there are a 
> few other editing operations sprinkled around the menu tree that don't 
> seem to have associated icons/cursors and also can't be put in the 
> toolbox.
>
> A generic "other editing operation" icon/cursor might be a nice thing 
> to display when the selected editing operation doesn't have an 
> editing-operation-specific" icon/cursor.
>
> What is the defining difference between a filter and a tool, other than 
> the place they show up in the menu and whether they can be put in the 
> toolbox?

Filters are basically plugins/scripts made to edit pixels (though 
nowadays they have mostly been re-implemented as GEGL operations 
instead), and as such they have a very limited interaction with GIMP GUI 
as of today (limited by the API GIMP provides). As far as I know, GIMP 
has no API to change the cursor to be used over the main canvas. 
Moreover you can perfectly run several plugins at once (which in many 
cases — in particular for these plugins which actually edit pixels — 
would not be wise), so how would this be dealt with anyway?

Tools are hard-coded in GIMP, not through plugins, and you can only 
select one tool at a time. Being hard coded in GIMP core, they have 
access to any part of a GUI that you are willing to implement. But users 
are not able to create their own tools without going through the normal 
upstream validation.

Jehan

> Best,
> Elle
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