On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:02:20AM -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: > > [pre- vs. post- selection delay] > > I estimate the chance that one is not taking a screenshot of GIMP > > itself as higher than 50%. So you need time to get GIMP out > > of the way. > > To get the screenshot dialog out of the way, you mean? > Is it really that common to screenshoot a single window which is > so large that there isn't room for both it and the screenshot dialog > on the screen at the same time?
Yes. I always reserve a workspace for GIMP, though. > To the list: does anyone here actually uses the delay for that purpose? > The people who have asked for before-screenshot delay mostly seem to > want time to switch desktops (a valid reason but surely not a 99% case). In my case, I use a short delay just to switch workspace most of the time. Sometimes I need more delay for some menu or popup. > Steve Stavropoulos' interface, with the two clearly explained > delays, seems so much easier to understand than trying to intuit > a mouse-already-down behavior. I think so, too. -- Thorsten Wilms _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
