Hey, let's have a look at the problem that started this thread: > Juhana wants to get a color from some picture to paint on another. There was an easy solution suggested by Jukka: > In gimp 1.1 you can use 'ctrl' to temporarily change to colorpicker if you > are using one of the painting tools (pencil, paintbrush, airbrush, etc) So as this solves the initial problem a question arises: Does anyone know of a situation other than these, where a changing tool is important? If yes, collect this situations and find existing or pragmatic or new and innovative ideas! And to discuss the 'active tool' pattern: - what is it good for, if the tool changes -- but only the tool? You maybe have to remake all the other settings (brush, colours, etc.) - and if the whole context is fixed for a special image, you can't use the active tool to solve the ppp (picture palette problem). Just my .2 euro Uwe Koloska -- mailto:koloska@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de/~koloska/ -- -- right now the web page is in german only but this will change as time goes by ;-)
