GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316392
Make canvas, layer, image resizing dialogs remember preferences
Last modified: 2008-01-15 14:04:32 UTC
Right now, these dialogs do have the ability to remember your preferred interpolation method (where applicable). They need a way to remember your preferred resizing options in the drop-down menus. For instance, while resizing by pixels or pixels/inch may be beneficial, I usually have to switch at least one of those menus (e.g. switching the image size drop-down to percent instead of pixels). While it doesn't take long to make the switch, it's annoying to have to do it every time. Would it be possible to remember the preferred resizing method (e.g. pixels, percent, inches, etc.) and Resolution scale (pixels/in, pixels/mm, etc.) As a side note, it goes without saying that, the rest of these dialogs cannot and should not also be affected by the change (as you're probably not going to resize every image you work on to the same size)
See also #164995.
This is a duplicate of bug #312950, isn't it?
Sven, I don't think this is an exact duplicate. If I understood correctly, the patch you applied should remember the setting during the life of the image you're working with, right? If that's correct then the patch won't help those people who use resizing frequently but call up and resize multiple different images. Of course, I don't know if your patch also affects the layer and canvas dialogs as well. My recommendation was to make this a global GIMP setting that is consistent from image to image but is configurable from the Preferences dialog in the event that a change is required. That might require that you make either one setting available that controls all three dialogs or, better yet, three settings, one for each dialog. If that's what your patch does, then "yes" it's a duplicate. If that's not what your patch does, my request stands. Of course, I might like to test your patch as well. When's the next development release of GIMP (2.3.4) scheduled for release?
Can you imagine a common use case where one would need three different settings?
Personally, I can't think of 3, but I can think of two. Of course, understand that those 3 would be one setting for each dialog. The two cases I can think of are image resizing and canvas resizing. It's not uncommon that I have to resize an image by a wide margin using the % option. In the same image or even a different image, it's also not uncommon for me to have to resize the canvas at a precision level requiring pixels instead of %. And that's just me, Sven. The reason I mentioned 3 dialogs is because it doesn't matter whether or not we can think of a way to use all three. I can guarantee that people will want to use GIMP in more ways than we can think of. The point I guess I'm making here is that it is a usability issue to have to reset these dialogs every time you open them. Since you fixed that in your patch, I must admit that it's still only slightly less frustrating to have to resize them every time you create a new image or restart GIMP. That's the same usability issue that GIMP currently has with remembering Save and Export configurations in the dialogs (which I am working up a mockup solution for, by the way). The only solution to this problem that I can see that would eliminate the entire usability issue (namely repetitive input on the part of the user), is to make the setting global for each of the three resize dialogs and allow people to change their preferences in the Preferences dialog after they've saved them... or for that matter, you could even use the resize dialogs for this provided that you add a control (like a check box) to the dialogs that indicate to the user that they are making this their preferred setting. By doing it this way, you're going to prevent creating a new problem in your solution, because the way that I believe it's implemented in the fix is going to get complaints as well if we leave it as is. I know that that is a bit annoying because I regularly have to take such suggestions myself, but in the end, every suggestion you get from a user can tell you something about what you can do to improve the product.
Another recommendation for 2.4
confirming as an enhancement request
Bumping to Future because this is not going to make it into 2.4, unfortunately.
Fixed in CVS: 2006-10-14 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> Remember the settings in the scale and resize dialogs for images and layers. Fixes bug #164995, bug #316392, and bug #357424. * app/dialogs/scale-dialog.h: removed GimpScaleCallback typedef. * app/dialogs/dialogs-types.h: added it here. * app/dialogs/image-scale-dialog.[ch]: made the ImageScaleDialog struct private, return a GtkWidget* from image_scale_dialog_new() and use a GimpScaleCallback in the public API. * app/actions/actions-types.h: #include "dialogs/dialogs-types.h" * app/actions/image-commands.c: changed according to image scale dialog changes. Remember the scale dialog's unit (if it is "percent") and interpolation type across dialog invocations. Also remember the resize dialog's unit (if it is "percent"). * app/actions/layers-commands.c: remember scale and resize dialog stuff as in image-commands.c