________________________________ From: gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list-boun...@gnome.org> on behalf of Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 4:41 PM To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Michael Schumacher wrote: > Ages ago, click-drags did move the selection content without additional > modifier keys. > > But we got complaints that it is far too easy to accidentally move this > selected content by minute amounts and not even notice this. So it got > changed to the current behavior. And I can't help myself wondering if that was a case of a vocal minority affecting a design decision that now irritates a vocal majority :) Alex _______________________________________________ Oh, boy, THIS subject. Where my workflow is concerned this was the BIGGEST breaking change GIMP ever made -- yes, even bigger than when 2.8 split Save and Export. (And we remember all the complaints over that, right?) I am one of those where when I no-modifier click and drag a selection my preferred action is to pick up those pixels and move them around (rather than shifting the mask). It is ... a minimum of annoying that we have zero means of configuring GIMP to match our workflow in this respect. While the decision to change it was definitely made in good faith, I wonder if it was made largely because (1) it was easy to remap how the selection tools handle modifiers, and (2) a lack of proposed alternatives? The first (and most obvious) alternative is to make this behavior a user configurable option in the GIMP preferences -- like we already have for whether the Move tool should default to picking to moving (I prefer picking). A second alternative would be to give the selection tools a sensitivity threshold -- i.e. you must click and drag the cursor a minimum # of screen pixels before the tool will start the drag action. I wonder if this could have solved most of those accidental microadjustments people complained about in GIMP 2.2 without introducing a breaking change.... -- Stratadrake strata_ran...@hotmail.com -------------------- Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
