Igor,

I like Gimp a lot, and using it for every day job. I want to repay to Gimp community by giving advices for making him better and faster for use.

we have the GIMP UI brainstorm for this:

http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/

please send your contribution there.

Thanks,

--ps

principal user interaction architect man + machine interface works

http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture

well - Peter give you EXACT the answer that I wrote for you(he was a bit faster ;))
I wanna send a report about transform tools issues - last year I think - containing the same observations and requests - but before to do that I search to see IF the behavior about I want to report is not already assigned(I was hoping that because it's a long stand issue and I don't wanna bother developers) - so I found that the BIG problems are covered in a percent of 99% by the study of Peter Sikking team.

You should read about GIMP UI redesign here : http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Analysis

and about task oriented / user cases here:

http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/User_Scenarios http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Expert_Evaluation_Notes

SO - if we wanna help, it's better to avoid confusion, bombarding developers with scenarios that was already under attention. I mean is good if we can avoid to do the same thing for 5 times.

I understand you Igor - I feel the same about transform operations but they already know that issue - new UI, new functionalities need some time to see the light.

The work is under way.

Best wishes and come to http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/

Sorin

peter sikking wrote:

Igor,

I like Gimp a lot, and using it for every day job. I want to repay to Gimp community by giving advices for making him better and faster for use.

we have the GIMP UI brainstorm for this:

http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/

please send your contribution there.

Thanks,

--ps

principal user interaction architect man + machine interface works

http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture

Let's not forget these relevant bug reports:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167926 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315051 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138462 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164828

I've made a tool in my program Laidout that uses a sort of 3 point transform: 1 point is a constant center of rotation/scaling, another optional point is a "shearing anchor", and the third point is wherever you click down on (not just on hard to get at handles, which might be off the screen somewhere). When you drag, the selection will be rotated, scaled, and sheared as appropriate to keep the one or two anchors in the same place.

You can see a video tutorial here (the relevant bits start at about 1:55):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZiQjLDYlo

I've also sent a mockup, with a potential perspective pushing around an axis variant of the above 3 point tool, to here: http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/

Tom ---------------
http://www.tomlechner.com
http://www.laidout.org