Re: [Gimp-developer] now: project ideas, was: unified transform tool

[Srihari Sriraman <techie visishta net>]

Are you talking about adding more options to the existing Align/Distribute tool?

Have you tried using the alignment tool?  You're basically describing the needs it was created to address.

 

Wow. Nice. I hadn't tried this earlier.
This indeed addresses the issue I had in mind.

In my mind, I expected this to work more like the move tool.

I pictured something like 'move and snap to layer edges'.

That I think, would be effective. (I'll gladly elaborate on this idea if needed)

Also, it could be a good UI and UX exercise trying to model this out.

Thanks for telling me about this tool.

I shall use it more extensively and get back.

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Bill Skaggs <weskaggs gmail com> wrote:

Have you tried using the alignment tool?  You're basically describing the needs it was created to address.

  -- Bill

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Srihari Sriraman <techie visishta net> wrote:

Here's one thing that I've long wanted:

Relative Layer Positioning

I'm unsure about the name for such a thing, what I had in mind is:

• Often, I don't care much about exact positioning of a layer in the canvas.
• I care more about where it lies with respect to another layer.
• I care that one line of text is on the same level as another.
• I would like one ellipse exactly at the same level as another.
• I want to align all the elements of the footer in my poster.
• I want to decide whether this layer I want to move should be horizontally aligned or vertically aligned with the adjacent layer.

I'm sure I could think of a few other use cases, but this I think is roughly it.

The feature is quite evidently not new. We've all used it in many apps.

I just thought I'd put my need out there.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:26 PM, peter sikking <peter mmiworks net> wrote:

Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:09 PM, peter sikking wrote:
>
>> meanwhile, I am looking for a new small design project
>> to put before my students in a months time. any ideas.
>
> It seems that folks who create textures for 3D projects really want us
> to build advanced features on top of the new save/export model.
>
> One such feature is mentioned in the GSoC2013 page: being able to
> export/overwrite from sets of layers.


it would not be bad if some more ideas popped up.

thanks,

    --ps

        founder + principal interaction architect
            man + machine interface works

        http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture



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