On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Juhana Sadeharju wrote: > >What if you bought a Wacom Intuos and 3 pens for it? That way you could have > >the most untuitive way of having separate tools quickly. And we would avoid > >having Yet Another Evil Feature That Nobody Else Understands (tm) :) > > What do you guys there don't understand? What evil feature? I think we all understand your proposal pretty well. I don't like it very much, even as an option, since it assumes that you're not using GIMP entirely correctly in the first place. Juhana, I'm just a Silly Luser (tm) but the solution to your problem is simple: use the keyboard. I frequently switch tools between images in GIMP in much the manner you've described and I've never had the problem you're complaining about. The only thing *I* would say is a problem is the fact that the tool shortcuts are so widely spaced on the default QWERTY keyboard: using GIMP is a lot like playing Quake for me :) and it would be nicer if I could have my right hand on the mouse and my left hand on the keyboard and not move it around so much; but that might make the keys less pneumonic. At any rate, GIMP is far from 'user un-friendly'; I still convert Photoshop users at the rate of one or two a month (and that includes installing Linux!). Tangent: How much is that Wacom Intuos again? And where can I get it delivered to me before christmas? <g> ---- The Tao is like a glob pattern: It is masked but always present. used but never used up. I don't know who built to it. It is like the extern void: It came before the first kernel. filled with infinite possibilities. [glyph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
