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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

On 2017-12-23 00:14, Ell wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:11:42 +0100
> Jehan <jehan girinstud io> wrote:
> > > 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!).
>
> But... that's exactly what this is about :)  If you rotate the canvas
> by 18.3°, then the line angle will be constrained to 18.3° + 15° * n.
> Or maybe that's not what you meant?

Oups sorry! I should have tested first (or read better your prose).
I thought the change was the opposite (like you made so that constrained 
angles were always relative to the canvas  coordinate system).
All good then. :-)

Jehan

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