[Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
I just stumbled across the next level in annoyance, resizing does only work when grabbing one of the horizontal delimiter lines, using the vertical delimiters seems to be blocked by some aspect ratio calcuations -> Bug #348807. regards Karl Günter Wünsch _

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Natterer
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 18:36 +0200, Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > I just stumbled across the next level in annoyance, resizing does only work > when grabbing one of the horizontal delimiter lines, using the vertical > delimiters seems to be blocked by some aspect ratio calcuations -> Bug > #348807.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 19:21, Michael Natterer wrote: > Instead of repeatedly ranting "i want the old tool back" you should > realize that you are using something that is explicitely labeled > "unstable" and "in development". So be constructive, thus helping > fixing these bugs, or use the stab

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:35:00PM +0200, Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > > Instead of repeatedly ranting "i want the old tool back" you should > > realize that you are using something that is explicitely labeled > > "unstable" and "in development". So be constructive, thus helping > > fixing these b

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Schumacher
Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > If code like this is unstable or "in development" it needs to be labeled > clearly as such and not simply toss out the old tried and tested. The whole 2.3 branch is unstable and in development... > It could easily have been implemented alongside the old tool without

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 19:52, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > The whole 2.3 branch is unstable and in development... I know, but wasn't the 2.3 branch to be a short lived one, leading quickly to a stable 2.4? > And this is why you did file the bug reports. One of the t

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Karine Delvare
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 20:42, Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > On Wednesday 26 July 2006 19:52, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > > The whole 2.3 branch is unstable and in development... > > I know, but wasn't the 2.3 branch to be a short lived one, leading quickly > to a stab

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 22:19, Karine Delvare wrote: > The life of the 2.3 branch is as long as the life of the 2.2 branch. That's > far from short. Then I misinterpreted something there... > Bill and myself are the two developers that spent the most time on these > new tools. We have both been

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Schumacher
Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > I'll gladly help but IRC is a problematic media for me as I live in Germany, > so the time differential might mean that I can only respond with 8-12 hours > skew. Direct mail contact on a smaller scale is more efficient for me most of > the time. The difference fro

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 23:38, Michael Schumacher wrote: > The difference from Germany to France and vice versa wasn't that large > the last time I checked :) Ok, Ok, I'll stop assuming things... Now I only need to get this darn kopete to work, that'll have to wait til tomorrow... In the mean

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Michael Schumacher
Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > In the mean time, here is a preliminary patch for bug #348807. The preferred way to submit patches is to attach them to the corresponding bug in Bugzilla. It is easier to keep track of them there, e.g. by indicating that they need work, obsoleting old ones by newly ad

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really want the old rect selection tool back!

2006-07-26 Thread Karl Günter Wünsch
On Thursday 27 July 2006 00:52, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Karl Günter Wünsch wrote: > > In the mean time, here is a preliminary patch for bug #348807. > > The preferred way to submit patches is to attach them to the > corresponding bug in Bugzilla. It is easier to keep track of them there, > e.g.