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

[Richard <strata_ranger hotmail com>]

Did someone's email get missed or am I just not seeing it?


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> From: gimp-user-list <gimp-user-list-bounces gnome org> on behalf of Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 4:47 AM
> To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

> 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.


Windows Click and drag thresholds aren't (ever?) visibly reconfigurable, you have to edit the system registry 
to change it.  The default threshold is 4px, and GIMP definitely does NOT acknowledge this (click-drag 
initiates at 1px).  Can we bugfile this?  And just add it to the long laundry list of Windows OS settings 
GIMP doesn't respect (Windows native filepicker, Alt to activate the menubar...)


[tangent] ...though to be fair, GIMP uses Alt as a modifier in its own right so having Alt do double duty 
between modifier key and menubar access is rife with problems (it's actually easy to control whether Alt is 
used as a modifier or for menu access -- the real problem is writing the logic that decides WHEN the Alt key 
should cause which response).  Besides, I wager most people are used to accessing menus via click/tap anyway; 
I know I am.


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


Did it do that in GIMP 2.2 (before the plainclick-and-drag behavior got changed) ?  If not then the present 
behavior actually is more consistent across all select tools, but some alternative to the current behavior 
would still be nice for those of us who need to move selected content around a lot.


(I also have my own complaints about the Ellipse and Rectangle selects specifically, but let's not go there.)



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