Re: Drawing simple shapes.

[Martin Nordholts <enselic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Cipriani wrote:
> Hypothetically speaking, if somebody were to sit down and try to work
> on this in the far, far future, it seems like there would only be two
> choices, both of them fairly straightforward (I'm new to gimp but
> AFAICT there's no vector-graphics layers so both choices end up with
> rasterized shapes).
>
> 1) It interacts with everything the same way the paint brush and
> pencil do. Draw squares, circles, etc., directly on to current layer.
> UI controls are similar to other paint programs... dragging boxes,
> etc.
>
> 2) It behaves the same way a text layer does. Draw squares, circles,
> etc. to new "primitive shape layer" (or whatever), and they can be
> edited, scaled, rotated, whatever afterwards (this gives similar
> functionality to vector-based squares and circles and things).
>
>   

Thank you for the input.

If someone sits down and writes a detailed specification* that gains
popularity on the gimp-developer mailing list, chances are quite high
that a hacker will eventually implement this. The daunting task is not
writing the implementation itself, the daunting task is figuring out all
the details.

BR,
Martin Nordholts

* An example specification:
http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/No_image_open_specification
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