David Hodson wrote: > > The reason I made the change is that: > * the tool (one of them, at least) _did_ actually keep the old > settings, [The curve tool ], it just didn't display the > parameters correctly; and > * the reset button is right there, if you need it. True, almost -- never displayed nor applied parameters initially. A "feature-in-waiting" I think, > I also figured that it's easier to reset if you don't want the > old settings, than it is to find them again if you do. Also true. > The bug report specifically talked about applying the same transform > to multiple images, so at least one person uses that facility. > This, I gather, is Cooper <Cooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, his first point in #33399. The change certain makes that workflow easier to perform (See http://bugs.gnome.org/db/33/33399.html). I certainly glad you've done the spadework (Thank you, again, David) and your interpretation of what to do is certainly reasonable, but I now find the tool less facile for my work, where I really *don't* like a setting that I've "disposed" of suddenly come back to life, and now have to explicitly reset it away. Here is what I propose: 1. There is now a "latency" bug where, when the curve tool is brought up with a non-identity transform, it is not immediately applied, so the setting of the tool is not reflected in the state of the image. That becomes the basis of a (minor, almost cosmetic, and easily corrected) bug report. The image should immediately align with whatever transform is being applied by any interactive, image_map-based tool (curves, levels, color balance, hue-saturation, brightness-contrast, threshold, posterize). 2. Among the interactive tools, the curve tool has a now-activated and unique "persistence" feature that some people like and others don't. In the course of fixing 1., I propose adding a "Persist?" setting. For those who prefer to start their search for a nice transform from the identity transform, they can disable this toggle and get the older behavior. Is this a reasonable course? Thank you all, for your time. Be good, be well Garry
