[Gimp-user] question

[David Gowers]

Hi Elwin,

On Nov 16, 2007 1:04 PM, Elwin Estle <chrysalis_reborn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have been busy with other projects and haven't really had a chance to sit down and play
> with 2.4.1.  It's pretty impressive.  I do have one question.  Why can't one scale the
> smudge tool?  I am guessing that smudging complicates things too much, but I am still curious.

The short answer is: The smudge tool uses a different painting
backend, and so the 'scale' setting did not take appropriate effect
(since changing brush size during smudging is not a very sensible
thing to be able to do, the smudge backend simply ignored scaling
factors.). This has since been fixed. The first 2.5 release will
include the fix (and it might be backported and included in 2.4.2 as
well.). The version I'm using right now (from the SVN repository)
includes this fix.