Re: [Gimp-gui] What is your opinion on on-canvas dialogs?

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi!

On 2017-12-22 12:37, Ell via gimp-gui-list wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:47:54 -0500
> Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
>
> > 1. The blend tool has an on-canvas GUI, but the angle at which the
> > blend is being drawn isn't shown in the on-canvas GUI and also not
> > shown in the status bar. This makes it a bit difficult to draw a
> > gradient at a given prechosen angle.

This definitely makes sense to show angle and distance in status bar. I 
already implemented something similar a few months ago for all paint 
tools (when in straight line mode, i.e. shift-clicking), following a 
similar standard as the measure tool status information.

So I just implemented it for the gradient tool as well (I factorized 
into a single function so that Blend, Paint and Measure tools use the 
same code).

> I know it's not quite it, but since commit
> 984ed6cefda5df921777c8530d4ea8f51a52977c from today, constrained line
> angles respect the canvas's rotation angle and flip mode.  In other
> words, you can rotate the canvas to the desired angle, and press Ctrl
> while dragging an endpoint to create a horizontal line (which, in
> actuality, has the same angle as the canvas.)

Maybe that's a bit far fetched, but what if you wanted to take the 
canvas angle into account?
Like currently we can constrain only within 15°. I could imagine some 
who would want to obtain any angle precisely by rotating the canvas 
first. Like you rotate the canvas by 5° exactly and you can get a 20° 
rotation with paint tools, gradient, etc. You can even get any random 
angle (18.3° or whatever!).

Jehan

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