Re: Quick cropping with GIMP, like in XV

In article <YJCdnb2xOe0Ft93VnZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ignoramus23731  <ignoramus23731@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I use XV for image editing, since 90% of time all I need to do is
>quick crop and resize. XV has nice keyboard shortcuts.
>...
>So I can edit a picture in approximately one or two seconds by
>pressing, for instance: ",,, <select rectangle with mouse> c Ctrl-S
>ENTER ENTER ENTER". That's it.
>
>It is very useful when I have to process a lot of pictures at once,
>for example pictures of stuff to be sold on ebay.

Having used xv for 15 years now, I had about the same feeling about simple
image editing in xv vs. the gimp.  After I started using the gimp, for
some
time I continued to do my cropping in xv and then used the gimp only for
those
images that required more sophisticated processing.  I've gradually been
won
over by the nicer feel of the gimp's crop selection, and the convenience
of
doing it all with one tool, particularly after finding its cropping
shortcuts.

The last im****tant xv characteristic that I haven't yet found a way to
emulate
is the behavior of only opening one command-line-specified file at a time,
and
easily (from the keyboard) going on to the next image when I'm done with
the
current one.  Is there a way of making the gimp behave this way?  That is
- I
want to specify the files to operate on on the command line, and I do
*not*
want them all opened initially; I may be perusing, and selectively
editing,
several hundred images in one round (all selected according to some
criteria on
the command line).  In xv, it's a matter of "hit space to open the next
image
in place of the current one"; the closer to that I can get, the better...

	John
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