On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:30 PM, scl <scl.gplus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To come a bit closer to your needs: the guides can also be set to 'Rule of > thirds', 'Rule of fifths' or 'Golden sections'. Beside having less lines > they provide established artistic guidelines for image composition. > Did you also notice the little 'Save' button on the bottom of the Transform > tools' dialogs? (If not, click the little low triangle in the upper right > corner of the dock, then 'Show Button Bar'). Then in the Guides list-box > select 'Number of lines', enter 3 and press the Save button. In the next > pop-up dialog enter for instance 'Rotate, 3 lines guides'. This will save > the Transform tools setting as a preset. The next time you can load your > preset by clicking the Load button in the Button Bar. Choosing a preset is not much (if any) faster than hovering the combobox and scrolling the mouse wheel. And both do not exactly provide a nice user experience. I mean, c'mon, as far as I can tell, the only reason we even have this by default is the corrective mode of the rotation tool which is as far from being discoverable as it can get. I can't remember anyone saying "Oh, figured out how to fix horizon all by myself, and it's the corrective mode". But if I could count on my fingers every time a user said "WTF, how do I make horizon horizontal without using a combination of measure tool, my brain for remembering the angle, and the rotation tool?", I'd be on display in a museum of natural history. So I would suggest to revisit straightening horizon use case and limiting the amount of lines in transformation tools to a minimum. Personally I would even switch them off by default or go for the "Center" as defaults, but that's me. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
