Zooming in Single Window Mode
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| Zooming in Single Window Mode | Mathias Lindner | 18 Aug 08:33 |
| Zooming in Single Window Mode | Liam R E Quin | 18 Aug 17:10 |
| 201008181912.55909.houz@gmx.de | Tobias Ellinghaus | 18 Aug 19:12 |
| Zooming in Single Window Mode | Martin Nordholts | 18 Aug 17:13 |
| Zooming in Single Window Mode | Mathias Lindner | 19 Aug 08:33 |
Zooming in Single Window Mode
Hi,
I run the current development version of GIMP (2.7.2).
In single window mode I experience a very annoying issue. One example to reproduce this: choose the brush tool, create a new layer and change it's opacity with the slider. And now it comes: I want to zoom into the image with the + and - keys on my keyboard. Or I want to move the displayed detail using the space bar - before I start painting... In multi window mode one just had to focus the image window again (hit the window's title bar) to get those keys working. In single window mode, since all toolboxes belong to this one window, clicking the title bar doesn't change anything. Hitting + and - just changes the opacity of the layer, the space bar expands the selection box for layer modes or alters the layer's visibility. One actually has to paint onto the image to get it activated and get those keys working again. But when I want to paint, I need more details - a vicious circle...
Just now I help myself painting somewhere, hitting Ctrl-Z and finally being able to zoom in. But this is irritating. Maybe GIMP should check where the mouse pointer is and interpret the keystrokes based on this. Is the pointer on the image the user prob. wants to zoom, move etc. Is the pointer on the layer dialogue the user wants to change settings etc.
Actually, this is not an issue of the window modes. The same behaviour occurs in multi window mode. But, as described above, it's easier to re-focus the image window over there. Thus, this issue wasn't as annoying as it is now...
So, is this worth a bug report? Or is this a feature request? Or none of all because I am too stupid to use GIMP correctly?
Cheers,
Mathias
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Zooming in Single Window Mode
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 08:33 +0200, Mathias Lindner wrote:
Hi,
I run the current development version of GIMP (2.7.2).
In single window mode I experience a very annoying issue. One example to reproduce this: choose the brush tool, create a new layer and change it's opacity with the slider. And now it comes: I want to zoom into the image with the + and - keys on my keyboard. Or I want to move the displayed detail using the space bar - before I start painting...
Yes, this is a detail that needs more work. Inkscape has a similar problem, and maybe it's GTK+ that needs some work on docks and focus. In the meantime, a global binding to give the current image keyboard focus would seem like a good idea - any takers?
Liam
Zooming in Single Window Mode
On 08/18/2010 08:33 AM, Mathias Lindner wrote:
Hi,
I run the current development version of GIMP (2.7.2).
In single window mode I experience a very annoying issue. One example to reproduce this: choose the brush tool, create a new layer and change it's opacity with the slider. And now it comes: I want to zoom into the image with the + and - keys on my keyboard. Or I want to move the displayed detail using the space bar - before I start painting... In multi window mode one just had to focus the image window again (hit the window's title bar) to get those keys working. In single window mode, since all toolboxes belong to this one window, clicking the title bar doesn't change anything. Hitting + and - just changes the opacity of the layer, the space bar expands the selection box for layer modes or alters the layer's visibility. One actually has to paint onto the image to get it activated and get those keys working again. But when I want to paint, I need more details - a vicious circle...
Just now I help myself painting somewhere, hitting Ctrl-Z and finally being able to zoom in. But this is irritating. Maybe GIMP should check where the mouse pointer is and interpret the keystrokes based on this. Is the pointer on the image the user prob. wants to zoom, move etc. Is the pointer on the layer dialogue the user wants to change settings etc.
Actually, this is not an issue of the window modes. The same behaviour occurs in multi window mode. But, as described above, it's easier to re-focus the image window over there. Thus, this issue wasn't as annoying as it is now...
So, is this worth a bug report? Or is this a feature request? Or none of all because I am too stupid to use GIMP correctly?
It doesn't hurt to create a bug report for it
I think the best solution would be simply make sure the + key press is propagated all the way down to the image window and handled there, since there is no widget before that that can do anything sensible
/ Martin
Zooming in Single Window Mode
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:20:58 +0200
From: Martin Nordholts []
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Zooming in Single Window Mode
To: [gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU]
On 08/18/2010 08:33 AM, Mathias Lindner wrote:
Hi,
I run the current development version of GIMP (2.7.2).
In single window mode I experience a very annoying issue. One example to reproduce this: choose the brush tool, create a new layer and change it's opacity with the slider. And now it comes: I want to zoom into the image with the + and - keys on my keyboard. Or I want to move the displayed detail using the space bar - before I start painting... In multi window mode one just had to focus the image window again (hit the window's title bar) to get those keys working. In single window mode, since all toolboxes belong to this one window, clicking the title bar doesn't change anything. Hitting + and - just changes the opacity of the layer, the space bar expands the selection box for layer modes or alters the layer's visibility. One actually has to paint onto the image to get it activated and get those keys working again. But when I want to paint, I need more details - a vicious circle...
Just now I help myself painting somewhere, hitting Ctrl-Z and finally being able to zoom in. But this is irritating. Maybe GIMP should check where the mouse pointer is and interpret the keystrokes based on this. Is the pointer on the image the user prob. wants to zoom, move etc. Is the pointer on the layer dialogue the user wants to change settings etc.
Actually, this is not an issue of the window modes. The same behaviour occurs in multi window mode. But, as described above, it's easier to re-focus the image window over there. Thus, this issue wasn't as annoying as it is now...
So, is this worth a bug report? Or is this a feature request? Or none of all because I am too stupid to use GIMP correctly?
It doesn't hurt to create a bug report for it
I think the best solution would be simply make sure the + key press is propagated all the way down to the image window and handled there, since there is no widget before that that can do anything sensible
/ Martin
Bug report is filed here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627337
Cheers,
Mathias
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