Re: [Gimp-developer] not really a bug but strange...

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 22:22 +0100, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> GIMP 2.8.* dev from git.
> 
> Some weird behaviour...
> 
> 1)Rect select tool
> 
> 2)Image menu->Select->All
> 
> 3)(You _have_ to) Clic on the image (to see the selection ... why?)
> 
> 4)Appears for a moment a void selection and then, if you move on the
>   image border, at least you see the selection hadlers
> 
> Is it all correct? Is it a "feature"? If it is, why?

Because the selection is an arbitrary shape, it changes to something
that might or might not be a rectangle. Also, you didn't activate
the tool yet.

This is all correct.

--mitch