Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-26 Thread Fredrik Alströmer
First off, sorry for the top post, but I thought this is isn't directly related to the question what to do with the right mouse button / context menu. It was, however, something that hit me while I was thinking about it. When I read this list, I normally just read the emails consider some

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-26 Thread Alexia Death
2010/7/26 Fredrik Alströmer r...@excu.se: Consider a button/key which you press, which brings up a circle of tools around the mouse pointer, perhaps an inch or two in diameter (keeping it animated improves visual coherence, or so I've been told, perhaps have them zoom out from under the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-26 Thread Vincent Beers
The space bar is invaluable as a way to move the image withing its window. Why do you want to confiscate existing possibilties, instead of unused keyboard and mouse combinations? This is why I said *tapping* the space bar. Since moving around the image is strictly a hold button action, the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread Olivier
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Vincent Beers vincentbe...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have a feature/enhancement request. Currently, the GIMP shows the program's menu when right-clicking within the drawing area. However, this seems superfluous as the menu is already displayed at all times.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread Olivier
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Vincent Beers vincentbe...@gmail.comwrote: While you have a point about being able to hide the menu bar, doesn't the main window never get larger than the screen size, meaning that your window title and everything in it will always be visible? This limitation

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/25/10, Olivier wrote: I cannot count how many times I have been happy to be able to reach almost everything from a simple right-click. If other image manipulation applications cannot offer this possibility, too bad for them. Don't use 2.7 and above then, 'cause Text tool now has its own

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread Bill Skaggs
Let me respond to the points that have been made in this thread. The first thing to say is that there are solid arguments in both directions, and any decision is a trade-off, so there is no need to insult one side or the other. The global popup menu is certainly useful; I have used it very

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Sunday 25 July 2010 18:37:09 Bill Skaggs wrote: the only question is which one is more important. Or how they can be combined in a clever way ;) UI designers to the rescue, but I'm certain that restricting the future to either possibility is not the optimum. Daniel signature.asc

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/25/10, Bill Skaggs wrote: The global popup menu is certainly useful; I have used it very often. The context menu for the text tool was introduced as part of on-canvas text editing. It was introduced because on-canvas editing could not work without it -- there was no reasonable way to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread peter sikking
Bill Skaggs wrote: The global popup menu is certainly useful; I have used it very often. The context menu for the text tool was introduced as part of on-canvas text editing. It was introduced because on-canvas editing could not work without it -- there was no reasonable way to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com: On 7/25/10, Olivier wrote: I cannot count how many times I have been happy to be able to reach almost everything from a simple right-click. If other image manipulation applications cannot offer this possibility, too bad for them.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/25/10, peter sikking wrote: I am asking myself: could we not show the menu bar when the mouse sprite is moved against the top of the screen (after a short, 0.5s, timeout)? fading or sliding in would be nice... It should be possible. Firefox rolls out button bar and tabs when you hover

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 7/25/10, saulgoode wrote: GIMP has three ways to access menu currently: menu bar, top-left button where ruler's origin is and right-click menu. This is bloat. The first two methods are not always available. As already mentioned above, menubar could simply roll out when needed. Needless to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Enhancement request: better utilization of mouse buttons

2010-07-25 Thread saulgoode
Quoting Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com: GIMP has three ways to access menu currently: menu bar, top-left button where ruler's origin is and right-click menu. This is bloat. The first two methods are not always available. As already mentioned above, menubar could simply