Hi All, I just found a behaviour which may be logical but possibly confusing for a user, particularly a less experienced user.
In the darkroom module, when the color picker sampler is selected and color picker module is either left with its display panel open or closed, attempting to draw a mask (or show an existing mask's outline) in a darkroom module is not possible (the yellow mask view does work). The correct mask tip appears at the top of the screen, but using the mouse on the image will only draw the sample as per the color picker (point or area). Returning to the color picker and deselecting the color sample tool resets the ability to draw a mask. Also going to another image and returning to the original image also resets the behaviour. While returning to the color picker and turning off the sampler is logical to do, if a user has the sampler selected and then does a few edits without using masks, when they come to the mask tools later during the editing process they will be faced with a tool that does not function. The geometry of masks cannot be changed while the picker is active, though the adjustments work fine, as you would expect. I'm happy to be corrected or informed but would having the color picker sampler reset when masking is activated by selecting a mask tool be more intuitive than the current bahaviour? I understand that the picker needs to stay activated during adjustments - as that's sort of what it is for. Just a thought from a dt fan. dt 3.8.0 linux - EndeavourOS I looked on the bugfix pages (though the above isn't a bug) and could see significant work happening under #9835 but this was closed prior to 3.8 Regards and stay well Alex ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
