On Thursday 27 July 2006 15:42, William Skaggs wrote: > > Hi Karl, > > Part of the reason you haven't seen much response is that I have > been on vacation for the past three weeks -- Karine and I have done > the bulk of the coding for the new rect=-select tool. I'm not sure > I have completely caught up with what you have done, but here are > my thoughts at the moment on the aspect ratio question. > > I think that if there is already an existing rectangle in an image, > then you can still do what you did previously: enter a number for the > width, a number for the height, and click the "fix aspect" checkbox. I tried and IIRC (I'm on a different machine right now) this didn't work, you had to drag the sides until you reached the apropiate aspect ratio as the value isn't updated on entering/changing the size values manually. > This will not work if there is no already-existing rectangle, but I > don't see any great difficulty in making it work. Would that be an > adequate solution for you, or does your workflow require something > different? It's would probably allow for my workflow, but I think there needs to be some basic change so that it's more straight forward and easier to understand. I can understand that 1.5 is equal to an aspect of 3:2 and 0.6666 equates roughly to 2:3 but please try to explain that to the average user. I'll be on #gimp later (8/9pm local time in Germany) , my nick is charlyw... -- mfg Karl Günter _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
