[Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-11-03 Thread lofreq
>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 paragr

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-22 Thread Akkana Peck
Richard writes: > 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 a

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-22 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Sat, 22 Oct 2016 00:35:18 +, Richard wrote: > Windows Click and drag thresholds aren't (ever?) visibly reconfigurable, you > have to edit the system registry to change it. The settings used to be exposed in the Mouse control panel, but disappeared a long time ago, although some 3rd party

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-21 Thread Richard
Did someone's email get missed or am I just not seeing it? > From: gimp-user-list on behalf of Ofnuts > > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 4:47 AM > To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"? > AFAIK this is sett

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-21 Thread Ofnuts
On 21/10/16 05:09, Liam R. E. Quin wrote: 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. This might work or might be irritating to people who w

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-20 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 00:29 +, Richard wrote: > [...] > 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). Fewer op

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-20 Thread Richard
From: gimp-user-list on behalf of Alexandre Prokoudine 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

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-20 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
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

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-20 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 10/21/2016 01:06 AM, Ofnuts wrote: > On 20/10/16 19:30, lofreq wrote: >> So my two questions are as follows, I guess: >> >> 1. Is it at all possible to just click and drag selections? Why is >> it necessary to hold down ctrl+alt to accomplish this? > > Because click without key modifiers has

Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-20 Thread Ofnuts
On 20/10/16 19:30, lofreq wrote: So my two questions are as follows, I guess: 1. Is it at all possible to just click and drag selections? Why is it necessary to hold down ctrl+alt to accomplish this? Because click without key modifiers has other uses. Maybe you shouldn't be using selections o

[Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

2016-10-20 Thread lofreq
I am a new user, but I know exactly what I need from GIMP. I tested out my workflow from start to finish the other day, and while most of my flubs were from inexperience, a lost a lot of time to trying to move selections around. I did some research and found that many others share similar frustrat