On 05/29/2017 10:32 AM, Carol Spears wrote:
[ ... ] >> It just seemed to me to be un-intuitive, that a user would be using one > tool, and suddenly to >> be switched to another tool without his intending to select it. >> > The "intuitive" side of this is that when you purposely grab a guide from > the ruler, the move tool > is automatically engaged for refining the guide's position. It seems to me that people often call what they are used to doing from long habit "intuitive." For instance, when a long time user of one photo editor tries out another one, nothing is "intuitive" and everything about the unfamiliar one just seems wrong. > I am unsure if this was something that gimp-1.0.2 did, but certainly > gimp-1.2 had this enabled. > And all gimp versions since for +15 years. Not sure if it's a bug, a feature, or an oversight taken for granted as "normal" by users and developers just because that's the way it always worked and they're used to it. > Perhaps as gimp's nefarious and wrong-thinking users (the numbers which are > many) are > also aging and cannot keep the mouse pointer on the canvas, this and other > features will just > need to go away. :) When using Inkscape, I take it for granted that guides "just work" and placing one doesn't turn off the tool I wanted to "guide" with a guide. I don't mind that at all, in fact I rather like it now that I have been prompted to ask myself whether or not. If asked, I would say "Don't be switching on the Move tool whenever someone adds a guide, that's silly." In Inkscape, guides turn red (after a momentary delay) when the cursor is placed more or less exactly over them - unless the cursor is dragging a selected object or node, drawing a line, or etc. at the time. When red, the guide can be removed by pressing the Delete key, or clicked and dragged to a new position (or off the canvas). I like that behavior. I have also found Inkscape's diagonal guides (45 degrees) very handy; they are created by clicking the ruler and dragging diagonally. I am usually very skeptical of UI changes in the GIMP, but more Inkscape-like behavior for guides would be a Good Thing IMO. This is not a huge issue for me - I have taken the "old" behavior for granted for nearly 20 years. It's "intuitive" because it's familiar - along with all the other annoyances inherent in editing photos and such. :o) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
