On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 09:57:49PM +0000, Andy Thomas wrote: > > Olof S Kylander:- Thanks for your summary of the problems in Gimp. > > I noticed the following on this list:- > > > * Make the Navigation window auto aware > > > I was trying to think what advantages having the nav window auto switch over > would do. The small "popup" area in the lower right hand corner already offers > a short cut to move around the currently active image so I think it would be > used for convenience. > > The current situation where the nav dialog is tied to the view (not image) > allows you to have many views open on an image an scroll around them > independantly (you dont have to selected and image to do that). I have used > this to compare parts of images. Valid point. I use the popup myself, though I'm so used to middle-mousebutton pannig that I usually end using that before my brains point to the popup icon :) > Thinking about it I can't convince myself that making the nav dialog view > auto aware is really worth the effort since I think that dialog will rarely be > used and only then in specialised cases, the smaller "popup" is better for > quick navigation.(BTW another side effect of the nav per view allows you to > have "thumbnails" of the images currently opened, sorta like a icon box for > the images. I was thinking about adding the ability to "auto raise to top" when > the image in the nav dialog was clicked on . This should be the case when the > image is selected in the L&C&P dialog as well). True. > Also the info window shows the current pixel value of the cursor position. > If it is changed to be auto aware then you would have to click on an image > (to make it active) before the info window started to register info. > Normally you just move the mouse over the image and the info is displayed. > > Any thoughts? I use <space> to toggle active images - it is very easy and space by default does nothing. It is also easy to reach. I'd like the info-window be auto aware. Does anyone else know any issues the change might introduce? Tig -- .---( t i g e r t @ g i m p . o r g )---. | some stuff at http://tigert.gimp.org/ | `---------------------------------------'
