I have tried to like the new one. I honestly did. But there are some things that make life really hard when you have to work within certain contraints. First of all the new one doesn't save it's options. That could be remedied but the amount of changes (I'm a C++ developer and really can't get my head around doing the way object orientation is done in the tool, the documentation for all the stuff that has to be done is lacking or isn't easy located - so I can't do it myself, I tried and failed) seem excessive as the gimprectangleoptions.c is the odd one out and uses a completely different way of storing it's properties to all the other tools -> Bug #346683. If that were not bad enough, the usability is partially much worse than before. Let me explain: the old rectangle selection tool didn't have the bells and wistles but it was more straight forward if you wanted to keep the aspect ratio to say 3:2 when cropping. You simply entered 3 into the x-dimension, 2 into the y dimension and ticked "fixed aspect". Now you have to enter 1.5 into the aspect ratio box and tick the check box next to it. But what if you want 3:2 aspect (for a vertical compositional crop)? Now you have to enter 0.6666 into the aspect ratio, and you already are suffering a loss of precision (it's off by a few pixels if your image is sufficiently large, because it's not 0.6666 it's 0.6666666). Even worse - calculator on standby - imagine you want to have 16:9 or 9:16 aspect ratio because you want to use the image in your own DVD production. The old style was simple (took a bit getting used to but was workable), the new style of setting the aspect ratio is a pain in the proverbial... -> Feature request/Usability Bug #346684. Then try to select some rectangular areas because you might want to make them partially transparent or only sharpen the remainder of the area. Now the new form of selection with the last selected area still visible is getting annoying to say the least. I cannot tell how often I find myself cursing at the new rectangle selection when selecting multiple rectangle areas to join them into a larger compound area because the last area stays visible and sometimes - I can't really pinpoint when - keeps me from selecting the next area. If I could pinpoint the culprit operation then I would file a bug. Then there are some usability issues with the way the last selected area is shown as stippled outline when you start resizing the area, there seems to be a random element to when the selection is supposed to be finished and what is supposed to be visualized -> Bug #347945. My humble (well after this rant) request would be to resurrect the old rectangle selection tool and have the new one reworked so that the next milestone doesn't have to be postponed because of this (for me the first one is a true blocker, the other ones are very annoying to say the least). regards Karl Günter Wünsch _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
