On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 15:22 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: > > > >Probably yes, but from what I remember, Shift + Click works in several > > > >more parts of GIMP's UI. If so, changing it would break consistence. > > > > > > I am not sure in what way? Yes, there are other commands that are > >altered > > > by Shift. However, the logical relationship between Shift and non-Shift > >is > > > (or at least should be) that the most common use of a certain button > >should > > > be executed with non-Shift, and the other (less used) command with > >Shift. > > > > > > If you agree on that, then this improves consistence. > > > >I don't agree. First, determining what the "most common use" of a button > >is, probably is subjective at all. And even if we could determine this > >in an unambigous way we'd end up basically with a list: This button > >shows a dialog, this button does not. Shift toggles this. The user would > >have to learn the behaviour of all the buttons by heart, since there is > >no simple rule to describe the behaviour all over the application. > > I strongly doubt that any regular user had any idea that that was the > logical connection between a Shift and a non-Shift click. I had no idea. > > As I said, I always figured GIMP wants to be _effective_ to work with rather > than logical. I mean there are a lot of inconsistences in the UI, however, > they make it _effective_ to work with GIMP. What are these "lot of inconsistencies"? _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
