Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 21/10/16 05:09, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> > A second alternative would be to give the selection tools a
> > sensitivity threshold -- i.e. you must click and drag the cursor a
> > minimum # of screen pixels before the tool will start the drag
> > action.
> This might work or might be irritating to people who want to move by
> one pixel.

AFAIK this is settable in Windows and Linux (5px in the KDE default 
settings), together with a minimum click-down delay.  I don't know if 
Gimp uses the system's drag notification or if it cooks its own, but 
anyway because of this people are used to "shake" before dragging on 
short distances.
> I wish we had on-click, on-drag script hooks so that this choice could
> be scripted. Imagine making the default be to move and use
> resynthesizer to fill in the missing details!

Me too.  Even more if this doesn't impact the mouse response time :)
> Without that, seems to me the current situation isn't bad, and that
> there have been fewer complaints this way round, even though I can see
> it's not ideal.

The plain click-drag is used fro other things. In ellipse and rectangle 
selection, this moves the selection mask...