Hello Gimp Users and Developers, In my opinion, Gimp (especially 2.6.1) shows some weird behavior, when it comes to zooming out.
I originally posted my concern in "Bug 553534 – centering issues after image scaling and setting zoom to 100%", but Martin Nordholts told me to post it here. When I zoomed in with 2.6.0, put the cursor on the "pixels of interest", and type "1", the pixels of interest WAS at (or close to) the cursor (as expected). Now, with 2.6.1, the "pixels of interest" are somewhere, but not by far close to the cursor. Instead I always see the corner which is closest to the "pixels of interest" centered in the window. Martin Nordholts wrote upon that: "... that is a matter of taste. I prefer the way it works now and I don't see any compelling reason to change." I would like to understand, why someone finds the new behavior to be better than he old one? Any examples would be appreciated, maybe my workflow is simply bad... But for the following workflow, the new behavior causes more work: I open a "larger" picture (1944x2592px), where "red eyes" has to be removed. That for, I zoom into the eyes with the zoom tool. Then I draw a freehand selection on every eye that needs to be changed. To see the effect of the following step at 100%, I type "1" while the cursor is between the two eyes. With 2.6 the eyes were centered in the image window now, and was able to proceed without any extra panning. In 2.6.1 I have to move the visible are, because I always see one of the image corners centered in the image window. The zoom button instead always centers the image in the image window, which is slightly more compelling to me than centering a image corner in the window, but still not the perfect way. I would like to have the following behavior: - Zooming out with cursor IN the image window -> center the pixels under the cursor in the image window, image borders should be ignored. - Zooming out with mouse outside image window -> pixels in the center of the image window should remain the pixels in the center of the image window, image borders should be ?. For the thing with image borders, how about introducing a operator key for zooming? Currently ALT and SHIFT doesn't seem to have a function while zooming, so one of these keys could be used to set the wanted border behavior. Example: If by default Gimp would not zoom out over image borders, holding SHIFT key could reverse the behavior, and Gimp zooms out (or in) ignoring image borders. I would greatly appreciate some feedback on this... Sincerely, Claus Berghammer -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Strange-zoomout-behavior-tp20173793p20173793.html Sent from the Gimp User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
