Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-30 Thread Steve Kinney
On 05/29/2017 10:32 AM, Carol Spears wrote: [ ... ] >> It just seemed to me to be un-intuitive, that a user would be using one > tool, and suddenly to >> be switched to another tool without his intending to select it. >> > The "intuitive" side of this is that when you purposely grab a guide

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-29 Thread Carol Spears
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list < gimp-user-list@gnome.org> wrote: >>It used to be that when a guide is grabbed from the rulers, the tool >>would change from whatever to the move tool. > >>That no longer happens. I filed this bug report:

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-28 Thread Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list
>It used to be that when a guide is grabbed from the rulers, the tool >would change from whatever to the move tool. >That no longer happens. I filed this bug report: >https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765023 >I miss the old behavior very much. I am undoing many unintentional >paint

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-28 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Nate Owens wrote: > Which OS? Mac, Win, Umb > > I tried again and again. >[...] I think what is being said is that maybe you are seeing a new feature and not understanding it. Have you posted screen shots of the behavior? Maybe

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-28 Thread Nate Owens
Which OS? Mac, Win, Umb I tried again and again. I do image editing, illustration for over 40 years, some photo editing, but I used Photoshop and Corel painter and often ZBrush and Rhino for 3D work (a lot of that for perspective setup, like the interior of a full dining room with all

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-28 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 23:17 -0400, Nate Owens wrote: > *Selecting the move tool always selects the path tool instead* When I click on the move tool icon (sort of like a plus sign with sharpened ends) I get the move tool. When I select the path tool icon from the toolbox I get the path tool. >

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-27 Thread Nate Owens
Exactly why I reverted to 2.6 - seems that the later revisions have bugs (or worse)? *Nate Owens* www.nateowens.com nateowen...@gmail.com On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Carol Spears wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Nate Owens >

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-26 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Nate Owens wrote: > > My problem regarding the difference between 2.8 and 2.6 was referenced in > the original message regarding the inability to select the move tool in 2.8 > (which resulted in selection of the path tool instead of the

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-26 Thread Nate Owens
This thread is about the statement that there was no such function in Gimp, and the request that I provide a link to the mention of this in the Gimp manual, which I provided. My problem regarding the difference between 2.8 and 2.6 was referenced in the original message regarding the inability to

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-26 Thread Ofnuts
On 05/26/17 07:07, Steve Kinney wrote: A big deficiency in the Scale, Rotate, Shear and Perspective tools when applied to paths, is that they present a draggable grid the size of the whole image canvas, not a box around the currently active path. But they do work. I trick I often use is to

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 05/26/2017 12:05 AM, Nate Owens wrote: > *Text ALONG path url* = https://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-text.html > scroll down. > Scroll down there is also an image demonstrating it's position in the Layer > menu selection > There is an image here, not to say it will show up in the mail list

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-25 Thread Nate Owens
*Text ALONG path url* = https://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-tool-text.html scroll down. Scroll down there is also an image demonstrating it's position in the Layer menu selection There is an image here, not to say it will show up in the mail list = "Figure 13.177. The Text to Path command..." Text

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-25 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 05/26/2017 01:52 AM, Nate Owens wrote: > To answer the question how I select the move tool... 2 ways = > 1. click the icon for the move tool in toolbox > 2. do the keyboard shortcut > both opened the draw path tool Sure that it is actually the Path tool, and not the Move tool in move Path

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-25 Thread Steve Kinney
On 05/25/2017 02:01 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > > > On 05/25/2017 05:17 AM, Nate Owens wrote: >> *In earlier versions the text along a path tool worked great...* [ ... ] > You could be remembering something different, maybe third-party plug-in. > If you still got a XCF file with text

Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-25 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 05/25/2017 05:17 AM, Nate Owens wrote: > *Selecting the move tool always selects the path tool instead* > Selecting the path tool also opens the path tool > *How to open the move tool?* How are you trying to select the tool - keyboard? mouse? Some other pointing device? Something else

[Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

2017-05-24 Thread Nate Owens
*Selecting the move tool always selects the path tool instead* Selecting the path tool also opens the path tool *How to open the move tool?* *In earlier versions the text along a path tool worked great...* you could *choose the baseline for the path*, even run it along a circle Then you could