Re: [Gimp-gui] Color Picker Gradient Recently Changed?

[Jer S <jersout gmail com>]

Usability wise, I think it's an industry standard to have black on bottom (PS and Illustrator are also like this). Gimp was also until the change.

I understand on the Bug Report. Wasn't sure if it was an intentional change that somehow updated without my knowing.

Oddly, it's also changed for a few others on windows (I'm on linux) that weren't aware of any changes.

May I ask if it's changed for you? If so, do you remember it being black on bottom before?

My Gimp version is 2.8.14.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Jehan <jehan girinstud io> wrote:

Hello Jer,

On 2017-04-27 21:21, Jer S wrote:

Hello,

I'm a long time Gimp user, and day before yesterday I noticed the
gradient changed on the color picker.

It used to be black on the bottom, now it's black on the left.

Google image search shows black on the left, but your help pages show
black on bottom.

I didn't change anything locally and no updates were performed.I
attached an image of what I'm talking about.

"color-picker-now.png" is how it looks for me now.

"color-picker-correct.png" is how I remember it looking 2 days ago.

Indeed. Testing now, I can see that on GIMP 2.8.20, the black part of the gradient is on the left. On master though (the development branch), it is on the bottom.

Shouldn't it be black on the bottom??

I don't know what is the right one here (if there is such a thing as "right" for this case) but if this changed for no reason, that's likely an issue. If you could determine on which version of GIMP this changed, this would be useful.

Also you should rather open a bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GIMP
This mailing list is dedicated to user interface and usability discussion. Therefore we could discuss on whether one direction of the gradient was better than the other (though I guess it does not actually matter other than being used to one?). But here it looks more like a bug (direction changed for no usability reason, as far as I know?), no?
Thanks.

Jehan

Thank you!
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