26 Jan
2004
26 Jan
'04
3:05 p.m.
On Monday 26 January 2004 17.20, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
From: "Doug Wellington"
<ddw(a)dakotacom.net>
[...]
Note that we're talking about getting stuff done from a professional
POV. That is, if we can't do it ourselves, we *hire* someone to do
the job. I bet you could have someone code a readjustable rectangular
selection tool for GIMP in no time, if you're willing to pay for it.
If you won't pay in cash, you have to pay in time by doing it
yourself. Or you just sit around waiting for a free ride; that is,
someone else decides to get the job done, one way or another. That's
the only way you can *really* get something for free - but only if
waiting (maybe forever) has no cost to you.
<OT>
Previously:
TANSTAAFL - exactly! There's always a price. Either you do it
yourself, or you have someone else do it. Time vs. money...
Or, either you do it in N months or someone else do it in a week.
The sentence "you have someone else do it" does not sound very
realistic: Reminds
me of that old saying, "Linux is only free if your time
isn't worth anything"...
True, sort of, but you have to remember that "there's no such
thing as a free lunch." The tool would be highly needed as GIMP
does not have a re-adjustable rectangular selection tool (it's
currently only "if it went wrong, start from beginning"). Like
having audio editor without re-adjustable selection tool.
You might get away with making the initial selection too large and
then trim off one edge at a time, using the same tool but in subtract
mode. (Hold shift or ctrl or whatever it was while selecting...)
Another way is to pull out one guide for each edge and then use "snap
to guides" with the rectangular selection tool.
</OT>
I simply don't understand why capable GIMP
developers cannot
implement the simple feature. There is no sense in that I should
learn GIMP internals -- I could use that time for developing my own
projects instead of wasting the time to sidetracks.
They're probably busy hacking other stuff, and they most probably have
a sufficiently handy way of doing what you want without that explicit
feature.
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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