Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8.22 is wacky

[Carol Spears <carol spears gmail com>]

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Scott Jacobs via gimp-user-list <
gimp-user-list gnome org> wrote:
> > 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.
The "intuitive" side of this is that when you purposely grab a guide from
the ruler, the move tool
is automatically engaged for refining the guide's position.

I am unsure if this was something that gimp-1.0.2 did, but certainly
gimp-1.2 had this enabled.
And all gimp versions since for +15 years.

Perhaps as gimp's nefarious and wrong-thinking users (the numbers which are
many) are
also aging and cannot keep the mouse pointer on the canvas, this and other
features will just
need to go away. :)

carol