On 2009-09-04, Chris Mohler <cr33...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I find it annoying that there >>>> appears to be no selection tool that turns off all tools.
>>> I am confused by this feature request. >>> The GIMP is an image editing package not an image display package. >> Wrong. GIMP is a package for whatever the *USER* decides it is going >> to use GIMP for. And an absence of a convenient non-destructive tool >> is a major misfeature. > Gnu Image *Manipulation* Program > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/manipulate > If you want to use GIMP as a display program that's fine - but you're > using the wrong tool for the job... Uh-oh! I see I was not clear enough - but I thought it must have been quite obvious... So let me try again: Why should *A USER* care how some #...@% *named* a tool? Why should *A USER* care what *another* user supposes is "a correct tool for the job"? (Assume that the first user has considered the suggestion, appreciated the suggestion, and decided to discard it. ;-) [*] As my software experience goes, if one writes a good program, users will ALWAYS find some uses for it the designers had no idea about. This is, in essense, my second law of human-software interaction: the combined intelligence of users of a good piece of software is always higher than one of its designers. > OTOH, having a shortcut like 'h' > for the hand/panning tool would be fine with me - I would use it. Good - as far as it is assignable to the default. But `h' is taken for Heal, I believe... Yours, Ilya P.S. [*] Myself, I do not use GIMP to CREATE graphics. I use it to fix existing images. I'm a slow thinker; before I decide HOW would I want to fix a particular photo, I investigate all the details I can think of. So, while my *intent* is to "manipulate" an image, THE FIRST things I always do are to use GIMP as a viewer. It might be the reason why I consider the default=panning-tool so useful. Am I so special? Do other edit-not-create people use different workflow? _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
