[Gimp-developer] Re: rectangle select tool

[GSR - FR]

Hi,
weskaggs at primate.ucdavis.edu (2006-06-10 at 1640.09 -0700):
> 1) The Shift and Control keys are no longer usable to constrain
> the rectangle to be square, and to expand from a center-point.
> Instead there are tool options that do these things.  The overloading
> of Shift and Control was always difficult to deal with in the
> old tool, and in the new tool with movable edges, it turned out
> to be completely impossible.

So now there is no fast way, only one that involves extra movements
with extra clicks? From user pov, that is a step backwards, sorry to
say.

GSR