>Because click without key modifiers has other uses. Maybe you >shouldn't be using selections on a bigger layer, and instead be >using a text layer for each piece of text.
I write my text by hand using a tablet and template file. Sorry, I didn't clarify this originally. Anyways, in a large paragraph, you can understand how that might be like trying to arrange magnetic poetry... but having to go through the rigamarole in order to move any individual piece. >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.... Obviously, making this adjustable would be ideal. How hard could it be to throw in a checkbox someplace? And if the functionality was already there in a previous version, then it wouldn't take too much to bring it back again + toggle. >This might work or might be irritating to people who want to move by one pixel. Arrow keys? >I very seldom want to move the contents of the selection. I edit a lot >of photos, and on a photo that just leaves a ragged white hole behind. >In the rare event that I want to move just part of a transparent layer), >it's easy, Select->Float (Shift-Ctrl-L). Floating layers are the bane of my existence. I want to nudge a selection this way or that for half a second, not commit it to a whole new layer (and then ctrl+h immediately for every single minute adjustment; and don't get me started on why that's got to be a different command than merging a normal layer) every time. When you're moving 20 things around in the span of about 2 minutes, that gets cumbersome very, very quickly. -- lofreq (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ 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
