On Sunday 07 December 2008, Lap1994 wrote:

Ok, so I have a foreground and a background color. Isnt this nice? And I have to buttons in my mouse, left and right, isnt this nice? Why noone had this simple idea of "right click=foreground" and "left click=background" before? I mean, even microsoft paint has this function O_o

Because most people found the context-menu more useful. MS Paint doesn' have this feature. GIMP instead makes use of a wonderful invention, that's much mor recent than banging rocks together (like using the mouse): The alphabet, or in the case of computers, the keyboard. Try pressing the 'x' key.

Daniel

On Sunday 07 December 2008, Lap1994 wrote:

Sorry if I made myself unclear. I'm speaking about the color dialog. Its on windows>dockable dialogs>colors or dialogs>colors depending which version you use. There you right click and the color is choosen. You left click and the color is choose. But having two mouse buttons and two colors(foreground and background) its pretty useless selecting the same color no matters what button you use(you can use even the mid button)

Sorry,
you're probably correct, that might be useful indeed.