Hi Gimp-user,

Whether it's the Font on the Text Tool, or Brush on the Paint Tool, or Pattern Fill on the Bucket Tool, scrolling through the lists is slow and sensitive. I tried typing the first letter of font, brush, or pattern in the list but that doesn't seem to work. I didn't precede it with any alternate key (shift, ctrl, alt). What is the best (fastest :-)) way to get to, or position yourself, to the resource?

For example:

Text Tool Click on Font Icon
The active font is Arial and I want to get to Tahoma.

SuSE Linux. GIMP 2.6.3

Thank you.

Hi David, gimpusers,

with any alternate key (shift, ctrl, alt). What is the best (fastest :-)) way to get to, or position yourself, to the resource?

Resource tagging is intended to address this problem. Have you tried it? You can assign tags to any resource using the bottom input field in the relevant dialog, and filter by tags using the top input field in the relevant dialog. (but not currently in the tool-options popup.. you must be using the full dockable, eg. Gradients, Patterns, Brushes in order to use this.)

I'm not aware of this feature. By "full dockable" do you mean the items under Windows > Dockable Dialogs?

For example, I went to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Gradients, and it looks like Figure 14.39 on this page. http://docs.gimp.org/2.6/en/gimp-gradient-dialog.html I don't see any input text field. I've scanned the documentation on this page, and my eyes aren't catching it %-) Do you see it in the documentation, if so, could you please point me to it. Or, can you elaborate a bit more on what I'm doing wrong.

For example:
Text Tool
Click on Font Icon
The active font is Arial and I want to get to Tahoma.

Why can't you simply use the scrollbar to get near to the right place in a matter of 5 seconds? I can. I agree that the preview of fonts is comparitively sluggish VS eg. gradients or patterns. I think the previews should be calculated in idle time, so that scrolling and selection can be instant. David

You are right. For whatever reason the scroll bar isn't smooth and not very accurate. The Text, including Font Selection Dialog, is the worse. I find myself pulling down, oopps, pull up, oopps, pull down. That's why I thought if there was some key-combination that would at least get me in the vicinity, it might help. I'm been adding a lot of brushes, palettes, and patterns. And thinking ahead, if I keep adding more, will this get worse. How will I find things, and get to them or get near them, as quickly as possible.

Side track ~~~~~~~~~~

Windows > Dockable Dialogs is one way, but I often get to these Dialogs from the Tool Options Dialog. For example, I click the Blend Tool, click the image next to the label "Gradient:", and then click, "Open the gradient selection dialog" on the lower-right.

A while back, I read a tutorial about rearranging GIMP's interface, and up to now it's worked nicely. Most of the time I have 2 Windows, 1 is the image and the other is everything else. On the top I have all the Tools. In fact, I added more, by going to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Tools, and clicked the eye/visibility next to all except 2 (Threshold and GEGL Operations).

I also added the 3 items from Edit > Preference Toolbox.

In the lower half of the Toolbox I docked everything in this order: Layers, Channels, Paths, History, Pointer Info, Brush Dialog, Palettes, Patterns, Gradients, Options. I like things visible at this stage of the game.

I did follow Akkana Peck's suggestions at, http://gimpbook.com/tips.html, to get rid of wilbur. That was precious space regained.

If the images hide the toolbox, I click ctrl-b. If I lose the image, I double click the Active Image to bring up the Active Image Dialog to raise the image.

After writing this, it dawned on me that I have Edit > Preference > Tool Options, "Paint Options Shared Between Tools" selected, so I actually could just preset the values by clicking the tabs that I have docked. Live and learn :-)

Thank you.

Hi David, GimpUsers,

Whether it's the Font on the Text Tool, or Brush on the Paint Tool, or Pattern Fill on the Bucket Tool, scrolling through the lists is slow and sensitive. I tried typing the first letter of font, brush, or pattern in the list but that doesn't seem to work. I didn't precede it with any alternate key (shift, ctrl, alt). What is the best (fastest :-)) way to get to, or position yourself, to the resource?

Press Ctrl-F (or Ctrl-S, it depends on your GTK+ keybindings) in the list view to open the search field, then enter the first letter(s).

I must say -- we need to promote this in the GIMP documentation! (particularly in conjunction with the tagging functionality) Personally, if I had known this, I would have hardly needed to wait for tagging, as I'd already included categorization in the gradient + pattern naming

This definitely works in the Tools (list view), like Text Tool, Blend Tool, Paintbrush Tool. Nice! Just what I was looking for.

But it doesn't work in the Dialogs, like Font Dialog, Gradients Dialog, Brushes Dialog.

Thank you.