On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 16:49 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > a user has expressed his opinion in Bugzilla that the autoscroll feature > is more harmful than useful for paint tools: > > Auto scroll for drag and drop, for moving a floating selection etc > == all win and good. I just think it's a bad default action for > freehand drawing tools, where bam, you get a line drawn all the way > accross the screen. I have to stop, undo the drawing I just did hope > it wasn't a full minute of trying to paint the edge of something or > sketching a difficult body part in a wierd pose I just finally got > right. Then pull my heart out of my throat if it's been an > hour since my last save and the screen just scrolled 700 pixels down > in half a second for no apparent reason. > > It would be trivial to turn autoscrolling off for paint tools. But I > wonder if other users find it useful. So, please let me know. Do you > think the image view should scroll when you touch the edge of the window > with a paint tool? Should this stay, should it be turned off in general > or can we improve the behaviour for example by using a longer delay > before autoscrolling starts?
Hi Sven, I cannot imagine painting something sane while the view auto-scrolls. Not scrolling sounds sane for paint tools. cheers -- Jakub Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
