GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 112859
transform tools' preview should take linked-group in consideration
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:51:09 UTC
As a new and awesome feature, GIMP can apply transofrmations on a group of linked layers. However the transform tools only show a preview grid for the active layer, not the whole group. It would be visually more appropriate to show a grid that would encompass the whole area all the layers in group take.
I don't agree here. I think it is fine to show the preview grid for the primarily transformed object only.
The user has no visual feedback that he's actually transforming more than just the current layer*. How about adding at least a simple frame around the group, leaving the main grid for the current layer? To me transforming a linked group is very much like merging them and then transofrming (apart from not losing layer sturture). The previews should look similar IMHO. [*] Many times I leave a layer linked, not bothering to unlink it. This would lead to quite some unintentional transforms, undos, unlinks and redos. It really is cool to see what I'm transforming.
If you insist :) ... setting to "enhancment".
Changing target milestone to Future in response to mail from David Neary on the gimp-developer list.
I'm not sure how much effort this would take, but as a new feature in 2.0, this should be polished. It shouldn't keep changing. Once users get used to a certain behaviour, it's difficult to change. I'm marking this as 2.0 target milestone which makes me change the severity as well. If this is requires considerable hacking effort, feel free to make it milestone:Future and severity:enhancement again.
So - what's needed? We need to get a bounding box for the linked group, and use that when drawing the grid. Is there a nice way to do that? An alternative would be to set the grid on the whole image if we're rotating linked layers - this gives visual feedback if the active layer/selection is smaller than the image. It has the advantage of being pretty easy to do too, I think. Dave.
IMO we should add a border for the bounding-box of the transformed items and leave the grid for the objecct that is directly being manipulated.
Bumping some small feature requests and low-priority bugs to the 2.2 milestone. Dave.
Since no work has been done towards this feature, it shouldn't block the 2.2 relase. Moving from the 2.2 milestone to Future.
Since nobody seems all that inclined to work on this, I'm going to change it back to an enhancement request (which it is, actually).
GIMP doesn't give any visual feedback that the transformation will affect more objects. Now we even have a live preview. But it confuses me as it appears to be only transforming a single object. It's not an enhancement it's a UI bug!
*** Bug 701374 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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