On 2009-09-06, David Gowers <[email protected]> wrote: > However, when the program explicitly states its purpose
> http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/GIMP_UI_Redesign#product_vision > > You will need to explain how your request is relevant to that vision > in order to have any likelihood of having your proposition accepted. Does not this remind you again the "we know that we know better" adage? And sorry, but when I read these scrapbooks, I get very strong suspicion that they are written by the same people who claim that GIMP is better than Photoshop :-(... [But I do not think that this list is the best place to discuss these notes... Is it?] >> Am I so special? Do other edit-not-create people use different >> workflow? > I just drag with the middle mouse button, or the stylus button, to > pan, myself. ... omitting the fact that 50% of computers do not have a middle button, 99% of the rest have a wiggling worm (specially designed to make dragging much less reliable) instead a middle button. (And I heard that a "portable" stylus costs about the same as the computer it is connected to... How many are sold? 100000?) > (or I use the navigation view (icon in the bottom right corner of > the image view) ... to use which one needs to hunt first a teeny-weeny square with a mouse, which works in the "reversed" direction, with non-intuitive magnification factor (and any interruption of dragging forces one to hunt the starting point again...). > If I mainly edited, rather than having a fairly even balance of edit > vs create, I would probably set the Zoom tool as the default Would not then accidental clicking ruin your zoom ratio? > (or possibly the Measure tool). [Never used it myself. Might be a good non-tool. But having a useful for-something tool would be much more useful, would not it? ;-] > I might even make the cursor keys scroll the display rather than > adjusting opacity etc. In Emacs, where I use about 5 or 6 different granularities for navigation with cursor keys (char/word/sexp/enclosing-sexp/sentence), I somehow manage to remember the "strength" ordering of modifier keys. (As in Alt=Meta is stronger than Ctrl, and Alt-Ctrl=Meta-Ctrl is yet stronger ). However, in picture viewing environments it does not come naturally - I never remember which key makes what kind of movement (px/10px/0.1viewport/viewport/to-the-end). (Maybe because the natural unit of movement in editor - 1char - is the minimal of possible movements, while for viewing 0.1viewport is much more natural binding for Left/Right/Up/Down keys?) So I find panning by keyboard non-intuitive. (Unless I want go-to-the-end, which is, obviously, on the strongest amplifier Ctrl-Meta=Ctrl-Alt.) Yours, Ilya _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
