Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-12 Thread Ville Pätsi
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:03:18AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: This works nicely for a keyboard workflow: CTRL-SHIFT-N, CTRL-. Fast, no confirmation required and no application state has to be remembered. An open question is how to make this fast for a mouse only / tablet user.

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-11 Thread yahvuu
Jay Smith wrote: On 03/10/2010 03:27 PM, yahvuu wrote: Martin Nordholts wrote: 2010/3/10 yahvuu yah...@gmail.com: Each of these dialog options points at a potential interaction problem. If the dialog remembers an option, the user also has to remember that option. In general, this amounts

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 23:50 +0100, yahvuu wrote: For the New Layer dialog, i'd prefer: c) Always create a transparent layer, without showing a dialog. Then let the user fill the new layer if desired (not considering layer size here). Well, layer size is the problem here. It is

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-10 Thread yahvuu
Hi, Jay Smith wrote: Image Canvas Size in the Set Image Canvas Size dialog in the Layers section at the bottom there are five different possible settings, including None, All Layers, etc. etc. In Gimp 2.6.6 (Ubuntu Linux 8.04) this defaults to None and ALWAYS remains none EVERY time I go

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-10 Thread Martin Nordholts
2010/3/10 yahvuu yah...@gmail.com: Hi, Jay Smith wrote: I believe that this setting should be remembered a) during the session of editing an image; b) during all sessions editing all images; and c) between sessions of shutting down and restarting Gimp. It seems to me that there are quite a

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-10 Thread yahvuu
Martin Nordholts wrote: 2010/3/10 yahvuu yah...@gmail.com: Each of these dialog options points at a potential interaction problem. If the dialog remembers an option, the user also has to remember that option. In general, this amounts to additional cognitive burden to keep the mental model

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-10 Thread Jay Smith
On 03/10/2010 03:27 PM, yahvuu wrote: Martin Nordholts wrote: 2010/3/10 yahvuu yah...@gmail.com: Each of these dialog options points at a potential interaction problem. If the dialog remembers an option, the user also has to remember that option. In general, this amounts to additional

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-10 Thread Sven Neumann
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 21:18 -0500, Frank Gore wrote: On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:12 PM, David Gowers 00a...@gmail.com wrote: +1 on this; It jars me momentarily every time I open this dialog and the setting is stuck to None instead of what I last selected. What's unfortunate is that most of

[Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
If this issue has not been addressed yet and if I can't find anything in Bugzilla on it, I want to make an Enhancement Suggestion, first on the Gimp-Developer list, then Bugzilla. However, I don't have the quick or convenient ability to check the current status of this issue in the most recent

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-09 Thread Jay Smith
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com mailto:j...@jaysmith.com wrote: If this issue has not been addressed yet and if I can't find anything in Bugzilla on it, I want to make an Enhancement Suggestion, first on the Gimp-Developer list, then Bugzilla.

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-09 Thread David Gowers
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: If this issue has not been addressed yet and if I can't find anything in Bugzilla on it, I want to make an Enhancement Suggestion, first on the Gimp-Developer list, then Bugzilla. However, I don't have the quick or convenient

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-09 Thread Frank Gore
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:12 PM, David Gowers 00a...@gmail.com wrote: +1 on this; It jars me momentarily every time I open this dialog and the setting is stuck to None instead of what I last selected. What's unfortunate is that most of the tools in the toolbox have the ability to have their

Re: [Gimp-user] ?? Status of remembering Layers setting for Canvas Resizing -- in most recent version

2010-03-09 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 03/09/2010 11:15 PM, Jay Smith wrote: It seems to me to be more useful to remember what the user does rather than some setting that the user never uses. Hi, Absolutely. This isn't controversial. Now all that is missing is a patch. BR, Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/