[Gimp-developer] Re: It's getting worse... Now I really wanttheold rect selection tool back!

[Tim Jedlicka]

On 7/27/06, Frédéric <frederic.mantegazza at gbiloba.org> wrote:

> A nice feature could be to automatically switch from x:y to y:x. This
> could
> be done by detecting the first move and assigning the largest value of the
> ratio to that direction.
>
> For example, if user choose 3:2 ratio, and then first move cursor
> horizontally during drag, the ratio will be 3:2. If user first move cursor
> vertically, then ratio will be 2:3.
>

What a cool idea. I never thought of that. I sometimes don't know if an
image would look better in portrait or landscape - this would make it very
flexible to try both (one after the other). I also work through a batch of
photos at 2:3 aspect ratio that I then need to crop down to 3.5:5 aspect
ratio for my prints. This idea would make it very easy to set my aspect
ratio, then invert it on the fly. I've taken the liberty of adding your
suggestion to bug 156858 (
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156858) (which dups 169064,
153941, 337663, 338948 I think)
-- 
Tim Jedlicka, bonzo at galifree.com, http://www.galifree.com
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