GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 345551
Rectangle selection: incorrect cursor shown if Shift/Ctrl pressed while over edges
Last modified: 2006-06-21 20:55:33 UTC
With the new rectangle and ellipse selection tools, an incorrect cursor is displayed if Shift and/or Ctrl are pressed while the mouse is over the edge or over one corner of the rectangle: it shows the "resize" cursor for the appropriate direction, combined with the add ("+"), substract ("-") or intersect option. It should probably show the default "new selection" cursor as soon as Shift and/or Ctrl are pressed, because the resize operation will not be performed: instead of resizing the current selection, a new one will be started with the add/substract/intersect option defined by the modifiers.
There will be a lot more changes to the new selection tools before it makes sense to file bug reports for them. I could probably go on filing bug reports for a day or two if I started now...
I know that there are still many bugs. But I reported this one because it was not too obvious and there was a risk that it could be forgotten. The other bugs related to anchoring selections and so on are more obvious and more likely to get fixed in time for 2.4.
I would like to encourage bug reports of this sort. It's hard to fix a bug when you aren't aware of it. 2006-06-21 Bill Skaggs <weskaggs@primate.ucdavis.edu> * app/tools/gimprectangleselecttool.c: Always use crosshair cursor if shift or ctrl are down; fixes bug #345551.