On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 07:14 +0000, Michael Grosberg wrote: > Chris Mohler <cr33dog <at> gmail.com> writes: > When you start messing around with perspective transform and you drag corner > points every which way, scale and rotate numbers become meaningless. So, > Precise numbers are not that useful for a free transform tool anyway. For painting and general creative work you're probably right, but gimp is also used for other things. For example, I often rotate a scanned image, carefully writing down the exact number, and then if it was too little or too much, repeat with a slightly different number. It might work if the transform tools have an option (sorry) to remember the last value, or a list like curves and levels do today. > You've got a similar solution in Inkscape, Where the select tool also does > Transformations by default with no numerical input, but there is also a dock > for transforming objects numerically (there are tabs for separate actions, > so each transform command is separate). Or displaying the numbers in tool options in gimp might work. (I worked on a patch to change the numbers shown in Perspective to spin boxes just as in the other transform tools, but (1) lost it in a battle with git recently, and (2) never submitted it as it obviously didn't fit in with The Grand Vision. I wish I could drag guides around while the perspective grid was active!) Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
