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> From: gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list-boun...@gnome.org> on behalf of Ofnuts 
> <ofn...@gmx.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 4:47 AM
> To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

> AFAIK this is settable in Windows and Linux (5px in the KDE default
> settings), together with a minimum click-down delay.  I don't know if
> Gimp uses the system's drag notification or if it cooks its own, but
> anyway because of this people are used to "shake" before dragging on
> short distances.


Windows Click and drag thresholds aren't (ever?) visibly reconfigurable, you 
have to edit the system registry to change it.  The default threshold is 4px, 
and GIMP definitely does NOT acknowledge this (click-drag initiates at 1px).  
Can we bugfile this?  And just add it to the long laundry list of Windows OS 
settings GIMP doesn't respect (Windows native filepicker, Alt to activate the 
menubar...)


[tangent] ...though to be fair, GIMP uses Alt as a modifier in its own right so 
having Alt do double duty between modifier key and menubar access is rife with 
problems (it's actually easy to control whether Alt is used as a modifier or 
for menu access -- the real problem is writing the logic that decides WHEN the 
Alt key should cause which response).  Besides, I wager most people are used to 
accessing menus via click/tap anyway; I know I am.


> The plain click-drag is used for other things. In ellipse and rectangle
> selection, this moves the selection mask...


Did it do that in GIMP 2.2 (before the plainclick-and-drag behavior got 
changed) ?  If not then the present behavior actually is more consistent across 
all select tools, but some alternative to the current behavior would still be 
nice for those of us who need to move selected content around a lot.


(I also have my own complaints about the Ellipse and Rectangle selects 
specifically, but let's not go there.)



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