GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 737570
Shortcut [some modifier] + Mousewheel for changing pen size
Last modified: 2016-03-28 00:05:47 UTC
Long time ago I have tested Corel Photo Paint. It's tutorial video was amusing. "We have a ugly girl. But don't worry! We have Corel Photo Paint". I have used heal tool for removing reddened skin, and all other types of difference to perfect model skin. So I clicked onto heal tool, positioned it over a freckle, changed tool size via mouse wheel + [Shift] so heal tool was approximatly 2 times bigger than the freckle and healed it. And exactly this feature is missing in gimp. A simple shortcut (maybe [Shift] + Mousewheel) for changing current pen size without changing mouse position. Currently for every freckle i have to click onto size element, position mouse over frecke and change size of heal tool via arrow keys.
You can map the too-value-2-increase and -decrease actions to Shift+Scroll of the Main Mouse wheel controller. So this would be about having this mapping be default.
Wow! I haven't seen this function! Under section configuration / input control I found main mouse wheel active control. Setting [Alt] + Wheel to tools-paint-brush-size-increase / tools-paint-brush-size-decrease did exactly what I want! Great job! --- And it doesn't matter if shortcut is [shift]+mousewheel or [alt]+mousewheel.
This is our current default mapping for the wheel (from the default controllerrc). Pretty much an ad-hoc hack in order to make the then-new controller do something at all. I suggest we rethink this and add useful actions instead. (map "scroll-up-alt" "tools-opacity-increase-skip") (map "scroll-down-alt" "tools-opacity-decrease-skip") (map "scroll-up-control-alt" "context-gradient-select-next") (map "scroll-down-control-alt" "context-gradient-select-previous") (map "scroll-up-shift-alt" "context-pattern-select-next") (map "scroll-down-shift-alt" "context-pattern-select-previous") (map "scroll-up-shift-control" "context-brush-select-next") (map "scroll-down-shift-control" "context-brush-select-previous") (map "scroll-up-shift-control-alt" "context-font-select-next") (map "scroll-down-shift-control-alt" "context-font-select-previous")
*** Bug 753246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This should be much better than before: commit ce741342ced3c09301aa2de7534c308269fa35ba Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> Date: Mon Mar 28 02:01:25 2016 +0200 Bug 737570 - Shortcut [some modifier] + Mousewheel for changing pen size Change the default controllerrc to do some useful things with the current tool. etc/controllerrc | 28 ++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)