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List:       freedesktop-create
Subject:    Re: [CREATE] [Mypaint-discuss] Multiple viewports (for MyPaint,
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2011-07-21 7:40:52
Message-ID: 201107210940.53078.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Thursday 21 July 2011 Jul, Joao S. O. Bueno wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Andrew Chadwick
> <a.t.chadwick@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm twiddling away on an unofficial branch of MyPaint which splits the
> > view of the single working document into multiple viewports, in a
> > split-screen manner:
> > 
> > -
> > http://gitorious.org/~achadwick/mypaint/achadwick-mypaint/commits/split-view
> > - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_screen_%28computer_graphics%29
> > 
> > Each split has its own translation, zoom, rotation and mirroring. This
> > can be used to provide something of a poor man's overview widget, or a
> > usable mixer palette in a corner of the painting which can be picked
> > from when working in the opposite corner, or just a pair of zoomed in
> > and zoomed out views.
> 
> There is an ancient feature request for the ability to rotate the canvas
> in GIMP - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55367 -
> I always thought ofit as interesting, and I expect that a pure GEGL rendering
> stack and reworking of the UI will enable GIMP to implement something like this.

Canvas rotation is so useful for artists that people like Animtim and Deevad rig up \
game controllers to easily rotate while painting :-)

> Splitting a window, AFAIK, had not been thought of - there is support
> for multiple views of an image, with different zoom levels, thrught he use of
> multiple windows to the same image.

Krita has split views, but in a limited way -- only horizontal _or_ vertical splits, \
and only one document per window. It's also buggy enough that I'm considering \
removing it.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl
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