I've been working on using the new "rectangle tool" interface to allow changing the shape of a text layer by moving edges around. (Sven set up the infrastructure for this years ago, but it has lacked a UI.) I have attached a patch with a trial implementation to the relevant enhancement request in Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122707 Sven suggests, and I agree, that it would be good to have input from the UI team before making changes to SVN trunk, hence this email. Here is a summary of how the trial implementation handles things:1) If the user clicks on an existing text layer, and no rectangle yet exists there, we create a rectangle to frame the layer, and allow the user to modify it. 2) If the user has modified the rectangle for an existing text layer, we change the layer shape or position accordingly. 3) If the active layer is not a text layer, or if it is but the user has clicked outside it, and the rectangle that has been swept out is too small, we want to use dynamic text, so we halt the rectangle interface. 4) Otherwise, we use the new rectangle that the user has swept out as our text box, keeping the rectangle interface alive so that the user can modify it. The rectangle interface is exactly identical to the one in the rectangle select tool, except that I have tentatively assumed that modifier keys aren't going to come into play. However, everything should be considered open to change right now. So, I am hoping to get some feedback from the UI team about this stuff. If you want to experiment with the trial implementation, you can find an updated patch in the above-mentioned bug report. To the best of my knowledge, everything works as intended except Undo, which is a bit glitchy.
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