Re: [Gimp-developer] variable value bar vertical height

[Marco Ciampa <ciampix libero it>]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 01:14:46PM +0100, Simon Budig wrote:
> Marco Ciampa (ciampix libero it) wrote:
> > am I the only one that finds that the variable value bars, those
> > used for instance in the tool options like Opacity, Size, Angle,
> > Strength, etc. so big vertically?
>
> You might be missing that their behaviour is different for the top and
> bottom halves:
>
> The top part allows coarse adjustment, the bottom part allows
> finetuning.
>
> They need a certain height so that you can reliably hit the different
> areas.

Well the cursor change in shape so I think that there is plenty of space
in those without possibility of mistaking the rate.

Anyway I may suggest a better handling? Why not use all the area for the
coarse setting and changing to fine setting via a key modifier like Shift
that is not used in that context? You can even think of a different
modifier like Ctrl for fixed 10 steps settings, with the cursor shape
change to signal this behaviour of corse...

What do you think about it?

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Marco Ciampa

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