Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

[scott092707 aol com]

> It used to be that when a guide is grabbed from the rulers, the tool
> would change from whatever to the move tool.

> That no longer happens.  I filed this bug report:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765023

> I miss the old behavior very much.  I am undoing many unintentional
> paint strokes now.

> I console myself thinking that the developers have been pestered to
> this unreasonable end by some nefarious and wrong thinking people.

I am sorry for being one of those "many" (as stated by  Michael Natterer      [GIMP developer] 
from above-referenced Bug-report ) users who complained about the feature you liked.

I would like to explain why I, personally, was desirous of having the behaviour change.

Many times, I would be using the Free Select tool to select an odd shaped region, part of
which was near the edge of the image (or at least the edge of the window, if zoomed in).
So often, I would be in the middle of entering many, many points to bound the selection,
and having spent much time doing so, would accidentally place a point too close to 
the edge of the window, and instead of placing another point in the Free Select tool,
I was suddenly dragging a guide out from the ruler, and had just lost ALL of my
already-entered points, and ALL of the time spent in selecting the placement of the points.  
I have even had that happen, started all over, and AGAIN got too close to the window edge,
and AGAIN lost all the points entered, and time spent entering them....  
It was extremely frustrating.

It just seemed to me to be un-intuitive, that a user would be using one tool, and suddenly to
be switched to another tool without his intending to select it.

So I either entered a new bug about this, or added my 2 cents to someone elses bug report -
I forget which...

I believe you wished the behaviour to be configurable.
This sounds reasonable, until you realize that the moment that one realizes that one needs to
configure it the other way, is the moment that one has just lost dozens of points and much time 
in their placing. Too late.
("You say there's a door on my barn?  Gee, maybe if it had been closed,
then my horse would not have been stolen!")
The average user would not even know that there could have been a different configuration,
or that what he happened to be doing was potentially "dangerous" and that that situation was covered,
somewhere, in GIMP's rather large set of preferences...

Few things in GIMP are not fixable with Edit->Undo, but the switching of tools in the middle of placing
boundary points in Free Select is one of them...