Re: [Gimp-gui] Paths should be visible by default

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2016-09-28 09:15, Ofnuts wrote:
> On 27/09/16 23:37, Jehan wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Right now paths are made invisible on creation, which means so see it 
> > when you have the path tool activated, but as soon as you choose 
> > another tool, it looks like it disappeared: 
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708124
> >
> > Actually it is there, simply not visible. Solution is to click on the 
> > "eye" icon on the path dock.
> >
> > I think this makes no sense. Anything new should be visible by default 
> > (for instance you don't make a layer invisible as a default!).
> >
> > Could we agree on changing this or was there a secret reason for this 
> > weird behavior?
> >
> > Jehan
> There are some operations where the user doesn't deal directly with
> the path. And plenty of case where you want these to get out of the
> way.

Yes but then you can hide them. It is a more "obvious" situation when 
you have a visible object that you want to hide, rather than not seing 
an object yet even knowing it exists.

I also remember I encountered the problem that the bug reporter had: 
paths "disappearing" after creating them and it took me a while to 
understand they were there, simply not visible, and I actually created 
several similar paths. This is kind of a hard-to-discover feature/object 
because you don't even *know* the object actually exists from the start. 
On the other hand, if the object had been visible by default, and if at 
some point, I wanted it to be invisible, I would have searched for the 
way to do so and found it easily.

> That could he a preference. or maybe a better solution would be a menu
> entry "View>Show active path", and a hot key with that.

Yeah actually there are a lot of weird behavior with the paths docks.

- Create a path. Path is visible (even though the eye is not there).
- Select another tool > the path is not visible.
- Select back the paths tool > the selected path is still not visible.
- Select other paths (paths tool still on), they are not visible either.
- If I click on canvas, it creates a new path rather than editing the 
selected path.
- I have to double-click the selected path to actually have its contents 
visible again and be able to edit it.
- Now if I select other paths, they are visible too.
- If I click on canvas, it edits the currently selected path.
- To create a new path, I now have to click the "Create a new path" 
button.

That's really counter-intuitive to me and the same set of actions will 
have different results depending on the situation: clicking on canvas 
either creates a new path or edits the current path depending whether I 
double-clicked it.

Jehan

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