Hi, I've just sent in two gimp ui brainstorm pictures for angled guides to that gimp brainstorm blog, where casual comments are discouraged, so I thought I'd summarize here:
1. Angled Linear Guides Double click on a line defines a center of rotation. Drag anywhere else on the line, and the guide rotates around that point. Pressing shift, control, or shift+control can change the precision of the rotation. Double click also undefines the center, or redefines it. When there is no center defined, plain dragging will move the line. Dragging with shift, control, or shift+control, will still rotate the line, but rotates it around where the button was clicked down at. The amount of rotation in this case could be, for instance, based on moving horizontally back and forth, or perhaps have the rotation center be arbitrarily assigned to be a little ways away from the click point (but still on screen). 2. Guides based on any path This would make precisely aligned touch-ups easy, especially with tablet pressure effects when painting, when "Stroke path" just doesn't cut it. Double clicking could enter and exit a path editing mode. Think Inkscape engraving tool for potential expansions of this sort of thing. So anyway, Tom ------------ http://www.tomlechner.com http://www.laidout.org _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
