How easy would it be to create a masking brush in RawTherapee

[stuntflyer (Mike)]

@Eigil_Skovgaard

I also suggest that relevant developers state their status as such when commenting.
Otherwise it’s hard to know who is speaking from knowledge and who just from the joy of participating but without having a clue.

That quote was from the second paragraph you wrote on this thread.

Your choice of words says a lot about who you are and how easily it is for you to annoy people. When you do that you only hurt yourself and lessen the chance of your being heard by the dev’s and by “others” who you say don’t have a clue. If that’s not arrogance then I don’t know what is.

[Eigil_Skovgaard]

Mike,
Hope you can see my arrogant index finger ;O)

[stuntflyer (Mike)]

Sorry, I can’t. Right now I’m having lunch. Would you like to join me?

[paperdigits (Mica)]

@Eigil_Skovgaard

What exactly had become too negative? - and to whom?

That would be you, who resorts to name calling and some sort of weird conspiracy theory about who “owns” this. It is the same attitude that caused the other thread about this subject to be locked and caused your time out.

It is things like these statements that are unacceptable:

@Eigil_Skovgaard

challenged “moderator”

@Eigil_Skovgaard

Does it own this site - or does daddy?

@Eigil_Skovgaard

with your sixty percent finished product.

@Eigil_Skovgaard

Hope you can see my arrogant index finger ;O)

Open Source is a constant exercise in humility, from all ends-- developer, supporter, and user. When we don’t have that humility, you can see that things go bad very quickly, like here and now.

Good luck with your straight line mask. There are several options still to have it implemented: (1) implement it yourself and send a pull request, (2) pay someone to do it, or (3) wait and hope it just happens. You were convinced at the obviousness of the need for your wanted feature, but, as we learn time and time again, it isn’t obvious to everyone, and if it was obvious to a developer it’d be in the queue or already done. Again, humility would’ve been helpful here.

This isn’t productive anymore.

[agriggio (Alberto)]

I know I should let go – I agree this is not productive anymore – but sometimes I just can’t.

@Eigil_Skovgaard

Oh, I have got that tool Alberto

@Eigil_Skovgaard

Your ART needs a handful of improvements to bring it out of the narrow FOSS loop

@Eigil_Skovgaard

You are also the one person who in my opinion would feel responsible for the product and its popularity.

How should I interpret all this, other than as “I am not interested in ART right now, I would only consider it if you add this and that and that…”?
With this premise, I understand that you might perceive my (and other people’s) suggestions for alternative ways of achieving your goal with the existing features as useless and missing the point… I can see that now. So, I wanted to reassure you that your suggestion is good, and that can certainly be considered. It’s still unlikely to happen, but never say never. And if it does happen, I will mention you in the credits, as I’ve done (or tried to do) with all the other people providing suggestions.