Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP -2.8.10 Brushes

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 03/14/2014 04:44 AM, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
> So Randhir,
> It is true that the stored brush size is no longer automatically used.
>
> However, GIMP has a feature that is somewhat "hidden" that can make
> for it, and even give much  more flexibility than just the brush size.
>   It will require one extra level of configuration, though:
> GIMP 2.8 have the "tool presets" feature. You can find then in the
> proper dockable dialog (windows->dockable dialogs->tool presets) -
> besides storing suggestions for tool configurations shipped with GIMP,
> these presets are a fast way to restore any tool, with all the
> configured parameters, with a single click!
>
> So, you have to do the following: select your desired brush,
> pick your tool of choice (e.g. the Paintbrush) - type in your desired
> size for that brush.
> Since you are at it, you may optionally take your time to fine tune
> all painting parameters you may like with this brush: smooth stroke,
> an specific Painting dynamics, even a color.
>
> When you are done, go to the "Tool presets" dialog, and press the
> button for a new preset. (The button marked with  the same "New" icon
> as is used in most other dialogs). You are then taken to the "tool
> preset editor" dialog - it is an extremely simple dialog - because
> when it is open, GIMP will already remember the tool you are using,
> along with all the options you finetuned. All you have to do in this
> dialog is to mark the "Apply stored brush" checkbox, in your case (or
> don't if you want a preset that will change to a specific brush size,
> no matter the selected brush). AH, of course, type in a suitable name
> for the preset - like "plantbrush size 15". Click on the solitary
> "save" button on the bottom of this dialog, and go back to the "tools
> preset" dialog.
>
>  From now on, one single click on the "plantbrush size 15" icon in this
> dialog will instantly set your brush, size and other painting options,
> and switch to the painting tool of choice.
>
> So, this is what make for fixed size for brushes in GIMP 2.8 - but
> there is still one further trick:
> There are a lot of presets. And if you create one or more preset for
> each brush you have, you will soon have a lot more! Now enter in the
> "tags" feature - if you haven't discovered them yet - on the tool
> preset dialog, (or any item dialog in GIMP, for that matter), you have
> two text entries. The entry below the main dialog contents allow you
> to set Tags for each item. For example, you might want to type in
> "brush" in this entry (be sure to press <enter> after typing it). That
> is it - now your preset is Tagged with the "brush" tag. Now, you just
> have to type in "brush" in the other entry, above the dialog contents,
> and those are instantly filtered, showing only the items with the
> "brush" tag. Therefore, you could easily create 10-20 presets making
> use of a single tag, and it would be manageable. If you need more than
> that, you just add more tags to the mix :-)

This is awfully complicated for a very simple need: set the brush size 
to the size the brush was meant to be used with.

The funny thing is that it's already there: there is a call in the PDB 
for this: gimp_context_set_brush_default_size() 
(gimp-context-set-brush-default-size for the Scheme addicts), so it's a 
simple matter to make a trivial script around it and assign to a shortcut.

You can download it here; 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-tools/files/scripts/brush-size-to-native-0.0.py/download

Speaking of keyboard shortcuts, there is a "Set brush size to default 
value"/"tools-paint-brush-size-set-to-default" that looked like it would 
do the above, but as far as I can tell it only sets the brush to size 
saved in the Tool options.