GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 166933
aspect ratio or size constraints on Crop dialog like the ones on RectSelect
Last modified: 2008-01-15 12:47:32 UTC
Add aspect ratio and size constraint controls to the Crop dialog. And of course make them work like the same controls on the Rectangular Select tool. Other information: This lack can be worked around by RectSelecting an area, then switching to Crop tool, clicking in the selection and clicking the "from selection" button but it is clumsy and a lot of mouse miles.
There's certainly room for improvement, so we will leave this open as an enhancement request (unless I missed an earlier report when searching for duplicates). You realized that you can easily crop from a selection using Image->Crop Image or Layer->Crop Layer? And that the crop tool has a "Keep aspect ratio" option bound to the Shift key?
No, I didn't notice the Shift binding. But it would still be more consistent to have the same controls on both rather than relying on one slightly more arcane way of doing it. One reason I liked PDP-11 assembler two and a half decades ago was that it was highly orthogonal, and I regularly see people express this as "it works the same way everywhere". It make the menu people happy, the panel people happy *and* the keyboard people happy. (-: My approach is that if a process is opaque to me for non-thwack-forehead reasons (and sometimes even for thwack-forehead occasions), it'll also be opaque to others. I do search for dupes before ever posting a new bug, but appreciate you duping the dupe search because you'll probably think of different ways others may have said the same thing.
Although this may not be an exact duplicate, this is at least related to the discussion in bug #91846 and the spin-off bug #91934. If the selection tools and the crop tool end up having a similar interface, then I guess that this bug would be solved at the same time. Maybe we could add a bug dependency, if not a duplicate?
Both the Crop tool as well as the rectangular and elliptical selection tools are supposed to be rewritten and should be using a common base class to select an area. That should make their look and feel consistent.
Hm, we can should consider to mark this as fixed, IMO the requested functionality is already in 2.3. At least let's set the target miletone to 2.4, this is what the new tools will have than.
Leon, it would be nice if you could try current CVS and check if the crop tools does offe what you had in mind.
IMO this is a duplicate of bug 91846 (and thus fixed now), resolving accordingly. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91846 ***