Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-17 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 01:38:52PM -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: [cut] > Other than the two visual cue changes I wouldn't change anything about how > resizing currently works. As I said before, I think it works better than > any other program I have previously used. Oh yeah! :-) -- Marco Ciampa

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin Cozens
Juhana Sadeharju wrote: After making preselection on 5000x5000 image, if only handles are grabbable and one zooms in to details of the image, then the handles may not be visible. It becomes impossible to do precision selections. The edges are always visible when needed and edge-grabbability works

[Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-15 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
>From: Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I know at least one professional in user interface design who strongly >disagrees with this. When we asked Peter Sikking to have a look at the That was interesting, but he is simply wrong -- I'm sure he would design the tool differently after knowing the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-15 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:29 -0500, Tim Jedlicka wrote: Why make only the handles grabbable? I don't understand the harm in having all edges grabbable. I think the idea is that different actions are assigned to different handles. If you grab a ha

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-14 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 22:29 -0500, Tim Jedlicka wrote: > Why make only the handles grabbable? I don't understand the harm in > having all edges grabbable. I think the idea is that different actions are assigned to different handles. If you grab a handle in the middle of an edge, you only res

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-14 Thread Tim Jedlicka
On 8/14/06, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (2)  to enlarge the handles and to make only the handles grabbable(3)  to add another handle in the center for moving the selection Why make only the handles grabbable? I don't understand the harm in having all edges grabbable. This is especially

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-14 Thread William Skaggs
From: Juhana Sadeharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:12:05 +0300 > >If I have multiple views to the same image, is the rectangle tool, >the crop tool, etc. visible in each view? > >For example, I may have one view to the entire 5000x5000 image, >and second view of size 500x500 i

[Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-14 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
If I have multiple views to the same image, is the rectangle tool, the crop tool, etc. visible in each view? For example, I may have one view to the entire 5000x5000 image, and second view of size 500x500 in which I do precision placement of the tools. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mail

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-14 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > From: Juhana Sadeharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >The handles may confuse users if really the grabbing can be done by > >clicking in anywhere on the edge. (That is the preferred way to do it > >since the first interactive graphics system was written.) > >The handles should be removed. I know

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-14 Thread William Skaggs
From: Juhana Sadeharju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >The handles may confuse users if really the grabbing can be done by >clicking in anywhere on the edge. (That is the preferred way to do it >since the first interactive graphics system was written.) >The handles should be removed. What you are saying m

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-12 Thread Kevin Cozens
Juhana Sadeharju wrote: In some other editor, the rectangle can be modified only by grabbing the 8 handles located at the corners and at the middle of edges. (That is an unnecessary limitation.) The handles may confuse users if really the grabbing can be done by clicking in anywhere on the edge.

[Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-12 Thread Juhana Sadeharju
>From: "William Skaggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The (New) Rectangle Select Tool [ ... ] >An important different from the old tool is that the >rectangle you get is modifiable, as indicated by handles at the >corners. You should be able to click on any corner or edge and drag >it -- the cursor sh

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re : rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-10 Thread Sven Neumann
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:51 +0200, cedric GEMY wrote: > may be i misunderstood your actual specification, but when you define > modifiers, i only talk about multiselection modes. What about old > options with Ctrl and Shift that does the same as "Expand from center" > and "Make Square". > In fa

[Gimp-developer] Re : rectangle select tool specification

2006-08-10 Thread cedric GEMY
may be i misunderstood your actual specification, but when you define modifiers, i only talk about multiselection modes. What about old options with Ctrl and Shift that does the same as "Expand from center" and "Make Square". In fact it may confuse the user, because these options have to be che