Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-25 Thread scl
On 25.01.13 at 1:42 PM Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: So I would suggest to revisit straightening horizon use case and I agree. Straightening the horizon is a very often and thus important use case. limiting the amount of lines in transformation tools to a minimum. I don't think that would

Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:02 PM, scl wrote: limiting the amount of lines in transformation tools to a minimum. I don't think that would solve the problem. To rotate the image precisely There are tons of use cases when you don't need to rotate precisely, and the grid gets in the way. The

Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Friday, 25. January 2013 11:30:40 scl wrote: I'd say, it depends on the images the particular user usually works with. While a screen or web designer might work with small images the most time, a photographer or scientist works with much bigger images. Different users have different needs

Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-25 Thread Guillermo Espertino (Gez)
El 25/01/13 16:54, Daniel Hornung escribió: On Friday, 25. January 2013 11:30:40 scl wrote: I'd say, it depends on the images the particular user usually works with. While a screen or web designer might work with small images the most time, a photographer or scientist works with much bigger

Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 20:54 +0100, Daniel Hornung wrote: What if not the number of lines were fixed but the distance between lines in screen units (physical distance or fixed amount of pixels)? I could nearly always live with a line every 10 or 20 pixels, and would find it very convenient

[Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-24 Thread Guillermo Espertino (Gez)
Hi, I find the default of 15 lines for the grid in transform tools quite annoying most of the times. When you're transforming small things the grid really gets in the way. I think a more conservative setting, say 3 or 5 would be more a flexible default. What do you think? Gez

Re: [Gimp-developer] 15 lines

2013-01-24 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 23:35 -0300, Guillermo Espertino (Gez) wrote: I think a more conservative setting, say 3 or 5 would be more a flexible default. Yes, probably; I have the default set to 135 lines, which is still not very many when you have a 10,000-pixel-wide image. Liam -- Liam Quin