Re: [Gimp-developer] Important misfunction in gimp scaling tool

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 06/06/2012 06:44 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 00:47 +0200, Ofnuts wrote:
>
> > The "when the /from centre/ transformation constraint is enabled, the
> > translation shall also translate the diagonally opposite corner points
> > by the same distance, however with the angle of the vector 180 degrees
> > rotated." tells me that the "centre" is the intersection of the
> > diagonals and that you can't do anything about it.
> I don't think you should view it as written in stone - it's a
> starting-point that will have to be modified, potentially, based on
> feedback such as this and on real user experience.

Given that this remark was made several months ago (maybe even on the 
previous mailing list) and that nothing has changed on the WIki, I'm not 
holding my breath.

> >   each
> > scale/rotate slighly blurs the picture, so it's a major usability gain
> > to be able to do it in one single pass
> This may or may not be true with the GEGL graph-based editing, we'll see
> -- consecutive transformations could be edited out, although that may
> defeat people who intentionally scale repeatedly to get exactly that
> distortion.
> Liam