Hi, Nathan Carl Summers <rock@xxxxxxxx> writes: > 1) The extreme brokenness of autoscroll. Autoscrolling tools currently > scroll far too quickly to be useful in most cases. I remember a patch for smooth autoscrolling. That would certainly improve things. Now where was that patch again ... > 3) The interface mechanics (feel) of the tools may need some > redesign. For instance, maybe the crop tool should automatically > size itself to the bounds of the current selection. Perhaps the > rectangular selection tool should work somewhat like how the old > bezier select tool did (where you could edit the outline of the > selection by clicking at the right points, or cause the selection > change to actually occur by clicking in the center.) The problem with readjustable selections is that selections are basically grayscale masks. So what appears as a rectangular selection to you is just a buffer of numbers to The GIMP. Readjusting the selection basically means transforming this grayscale mask. Such a transformation will always introduce errors and fuzzyness. In order to improve this, we should probably ditch the rect and ellipse select tools and replace them with vector tools. The path tool as it is implemented now is just a special case of a vectors tools and it shouldn't be too hard to implement tools to create basic shapes. These shapes could then be converted to a selection, just like Path->To Selection works now. But I think that's exactly what you were proposing also, isn't it? > This would, of course, make selection CSG operations more difficult. Simon said that implementing CSG operations on vectors would be not feasible. But IMO it would be a prerequisite for better selection tools. Since Inkscape introduced add, subtract, intersect and union for vector shapes lately, I don't see why we shouldn't manage to do the same. Sven
