On 08/18/2010 08:33 AM, Mathias Lindner wrote: > Hi, > > I run the current development version of GIMP (2.7.2). > > In single window mode I experience a very annoying issue. One example to > reproduce this: choose the brush tool, create a new layer and change it's > opacity with the slider. And now it comes: I want to zoom into the image with > the + and - keys on my keyboard. Or I want to move the displayed detail using > the space bar - before I start painting... > In multi window mode one just had to focus the image window again (hit the > window's title bar) to get those keys working. In single window mode, since > all toolboxes belong to this one window, clicking the title bar doesn't > change anything. Hitting + and - just changes the opacity of the layer, the > space bar expands the selection box for layer modes or alters the layer's > visibility. One actually has to paint onto the image to get it activated and > get those keys working again. But when I want to paint, I need more details - > a vicious circle... > > Just now I help myself painting somewhere, hitting Ctrl-Z and finally being > able to zoom in. But this is irritating. Maybe GIMP should check where the > mouse pointer is and interpret the keystrokes based on this. Is the pointer > on the image the user prob. wants to zoom, move etc. Is the pointer on the > layer dialogue the user wants to change settings etc. > > Actually, this is not an issue of the window modes. The same behaviour occurs > in multi window mode. But, as described above, it's easier to re-focus the > image window over there. Thus, this issue wasn't as annoying as it is now... > > So, is this worth a bug report? Or is this a feature request? Or none of all > because I am too stupid to use GIMP correctly?
It doesn't hurt to create a bug report for it I think the best solution would be simply make sure the + key press is propagated all the way down to the image window and handled there, since there is no widget before that that can do anything sensible / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Automatic tab style and removed tab title bar" _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
