> The space bar feature is still present (as an option) and it has always > been implemented by switching to the Move tool temporarily. > > > Sven Indeed, you are correct. I must have switched the "affect:" option of the Move tool during my experimentation and failed to restore it. > These are plug-ins (color2alpha, semiflatten, threshold_alpha) or tools > (Rotate tool). Plug-ins automatically honor the selection, And being able to make such a blanket statement should simplify things for the user. Unfortunately, without a way of differentiating between a plug-in or a core function in the menu system that knowledge is of no benefit to the user. Nonetheless, of more importance than the Layer menu, it would be of great benefit to the user interface to be able to make such a general statement about tools (i.e., tools automatically honor the selection). Since there is only one tool that violates this at the current time, it would seem most reasonable to make that tool conform; especially since Move operations bear such a connection and similarity to Transform operations. The current "Affect:" options of the Move Tool and all of the transform tools have the same tool hints: "Transform Layer", "Transform Selection", and "Transform Path". There is nothing in the user interface to suggest that the Move Tool does not honor selections while the other tools do. It seems to me that adding a "Transform Selection Contents" mode to the Move tool and a "Transform Layer" mode to the transform tools would provide an extremely desirable commonality while correcting an obvious inconsistency. -------- "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -- Harry S. Truman _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
