GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124970
Layer Text activation
Last modified: 2005-01-01 21:56:10 UTC
After creating two texts and playing few minutes with them , I'd like report this usuability enhancement : To edit a Text-layer you have to : - activ the layer in the layer dialog - click on the layer to activate it's attribute in the options dialog - click on the text to open the text editor If you create two text-layer with the same attributs (it's often the case) and then activ one text-layer without clicking in the image you modify the attributs of the other text-layer. This is what I did before I know. Then if there is only one text for each text-layer (I believe it's the case) then why not switching the second step to obtain : - activating the layer in the layer dialog also activate it's attribute in the option dialog - click on the text to open the text editor (as before)
The text tool user interface is unfinished and completely preliminary. There is not much use in sending bug reports about it.
What should we do with this bug report?
2004-03-13 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/tools/gimptexttool.[ch]: keep a pointer on the active text layer and let the tool follow the active layer. Fixes bug #124970. * app/gui/layers-commands.c: changed accordingly.
Hmmm... I just tested the updated version, and this seems to have strange side-effects. I am not sure if I should open a new bug report about that, but if you create a new image, add one text layer, add a second one and then switch layers in the layers dialog, then you can accidentally overwrite the text of one layer while you think that you are editing the other one.
At some point I will have to add detection of image changes. The main reason to do this change was to be able to fix bug #118356 and to be consistent with the vectors tool. Perhaps I might even add this code tomorrow, but there are more important things to do first.
I've cleaned this code up further and I think that the text tool logic is sane now.