On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Michael Grosberg <grosberg.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I'm a little uneasy at the moment about the "ban working with numbers for >> > transformations" comment. >> >> It would be nice (IMO) to have a dockable that displays the "numbers" >> of the transform tool's current selection and transform, and also >> applies numerical input to the transform tool. > > I have a somewhat different solution for this. > > When you start messing around with perspective transform and you drag corner > points every which way, scale and rotate numbers become meaningless. So, > Precise numbers are not that useful for a free transform tool anyway. > GIMP could simply keep the existing separate transform tools, but instead of > displaying them as icons in the toolbox, keep them in their own sub-menu under > edit-->transform or something.
That would cover the uses I was worried about. The dockable I was imagining had the following items: Origin X,Y in pixels Width in pixels Height in pixels Rotation in degrees X shear in pixels or degrees Y shear in pixels or degrees And then some items that would become active only after performing a perspective transform or clicking on them directly: Top-Left X,Y in pixels Top-Right X,Y in pixels Bottom-Left X,Y in pixels Bottom-Right X,Y in pixels I *think* that would cover all of the transformations of the proposed tool. And I assume all or most of those values are going to be in play (and in the undo stack) during use of the transform tool. But yeah, just having the one-off dialogs for transforms would work as well. I have no real preference either way, but the dockable (or placing those items in tool options) seems cleaner to me for some reason. Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
