Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 02:14:44 +0200 To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Cc: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key Because I tried it and I made the experience that it pressing a key with the second hand disturbs the workflow less than to switch mouse buttons. But perhaps this needs actual user testing. Sven What about giving us a configurable option to configure any one or both of these facilities? -- Best regards Asif Lodhi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key
From: Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 02:14:44 +0200 To: gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Cc: gimp-developer@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key Because I tried it and I made the experience that it pressing a key with the second hand disturbs the workflow less than to switch mouse buttons. But perhaps this needs actual user testing. Sven What about giving us a configurable option to configure any one or both of these facilities? -- Best regards Asif Lodhi ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key
Hi, Akkana Peck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Spacebar to switch temporarily to move is awfully useful. I didn't know about it until this discussion, but I've often wanted something like that See, that is exactly my point. The feature is not discoverable and it might make sense to exchange it for something which is probably at least as useful but wider known. I'm forever switching between move and something else, for instance when I'm creating lots of different text layers and need to position each one. That's just a missing feature in the text tool. Of course the text tool should allow you to move text layers. Do a lot of gimp users not have a middle mouse button? Maybe tablet users who don't want to put down the stylus and switch to a mouse? (That would be understandable.) Or is this just because ... that other program does it that way, and its users are used to it? Because I tried it and I made the experience that it pressing a key with the second hand disturbs the workflow less than to switch mouse buttons. But perhaps this needs actual user testing. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] use of the Space key
Sven Neumann wrote: Spacebar to switch temporarily to move is awfully useful. I didn't know about it until this discussion, but I've often wanted something like that See, that is exactly my point. The feature is not discoverable and it might make sense to exchange it for something which is probably at least as useful but wider known. I'm in the same boat in that I didn't discover the current space bar behavior and now that I know about it, I think it's great. The reason I didn't discover it is purely because I never thought to press the space bar at all. I've got no issue with changing the behavior of the space bar but the main point is I didn't know about the behavior associated with the space bar because I never thought to press the space bar, regardless of the functionality associated with it/ Peace... Tom ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
