Re: [Gimp-developer] Progress indicators in GIMP [Was: OpenCL and GIMP tile size]

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 06:20 +0200, scl wrote:

> - As soon as possible return to a state where the user
> can continue her/his work. This means: in the (blocking) foreground
> only process what the user imperatively needs to continue her/his work
> and use the progress indicator only for this. 

+1

One I particularly dislike is the cursor grab for select by colour - on
a large image you might wait quite some time (tens of seconds or longer)
before you can use the mouse pointer again. I looked at patching this
but the code was far from obvious, sorry.


> The remain of the
> operation is done in the background. This would not only appear
> to be faster, but really be faster and thus achieve the product visions
> goal of a high working speed.

Another image editor :) does this a lot, updating the preview and then
working on the main image in the background.

Liam

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