On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:05:39 -0000, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007 10:26:12 am Thomas Worthington > wrote: >> Moving a selected region is a very common action and >> now seems impossible under normal Linux user interfaces. I can >> see the application of "capricious" to that situation. What >> was the benefit of changing the default drag action? > > Actually, moving a selection in Gimp 2.4 is easier than it was in > 2.2. Simply left click within the selected region and drag... no > modifier keys needed and no need to grab the edge of the > selection when doing so. I just did this in 2.4.1 in KDE 3.5.8 > on Kubuntu 7.10. The new selection tool features are much easier > to use if you haven't already been trained to use the old > methods from previous releases.
You are describing what 2.2 does for me. 2.4 simply dragged the selected region, NOT its contents. > Seems to me that with the new way of moving a selection in 2.4 > that modifying a system-wide setting (Alt+Left-Click to move a > window in KDE) is no longer necessary. That is a good thing. But > if you want to go back to 2.2 and deal with its more familiar, > but also less compatible, way of working, I understand... I > guess... I think... maybe not. Well, all I can say is that 2.4 did not do what you describe for me <shrug>. TW _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
