On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 03:27:19PM +0200, Gerald Friedland wrote: > > I do not quite understand your problems. I am an aloof developer who > has serious problems to understand user's problems. Please help me > out, maybe I am misunderstanding something? So please do not get me > wrong here. > heh. > What one defines foreground or background is not a matter of the tool > but a matter of the human being who is using the tool. > what is the purpose of a toggle that says "Background"? this was my expectation. i guess i would be an aloof user who refuses to try any longer to understand where the developers minds are at when they do things... when i toggled it from Foreground to Background, my expectation was to manage what was selected. it seems sort of silly now that i write about it. my goal was to make the parts i wanted to select be what was floated. perhaps a lot of the confusion would disappear if the background/foreground toggle disappeared. as i have considered it since using the tool, it makes sense to me that it makes no difference what is selected. however, the tool option is there. > I cut out the windows selecting them all with the lasso. > See: http://www.gerald-friedland.de/tmp/multiwindow_sel.png > i honestly wrote this before looking at any of the urls. bad form. i will apologize if that is helpful. i am still somewhat stuck with the image in my mind of where the developers minds are though.... carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
