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Bug 171725 - clone source is lost on tool change
clone source is lost on tool change
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Tools
2.2.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-26 13:53 UTC by Oriol Olivier
Modified: 2018-05-24 11:29 UTC
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Description Oriol Olivier 2005-03-26 13:53:08 UTC
Hi, I love GIMP for many aspects but I have some annoyance with the clone tool.  
  
 I'm using the clone tool for painting (using some part of another image to paint a 
picture like explain by Sparth here : 
http://www.cfsl.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=229066#229066 ).  
 It work great but, GIMP forgot the clone source each time I change of tool.  
 So for example, I begin to paint, I take the zoom tool for closing up and when I take the 
clone tool again, it forgot the source, I must redo the CTRL-clic in the source image to 
get it again. It very annoying.  
 
Note that it possible to workaround this by using keyboard for zooming but it's still a 
usuability issue and don't solve the problem for other tools (like the eraser for example)
Comment 1 Michael Schumacher 2005-04-01 08:39:15 UTC
I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug 167000 - it should not matter what
does the tool switching - a tablet's pen, mouse pointer of keyboard shortcut...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 167000 ***
Comment 2 Robert Ögren 2005-07-13 13:38:59 UTC
Reopening, as bug #167000 has been reassigned to GTK+ to hopefully fix the
specific problem when lifting the tablet pen on Windows.
Comment 3 david gowers 2005-09-02 05:08:13 UTC
Why is this related to bug #167000 ?
Even with a single device(mouse) this happens. Each time I enter the clone tool
I have to Ctrl-click to set the source again. It makes the tool 95% unusable for
my purposes!
Comment 4 Michael Natterer 2005-09-02 09:15:07 UTC
This is absolutely unrelated to input devices or whatever voodoo you
might suspect. When the tool changes, the old tool is freed, and
with it all its state except for the tool options is lost.
Comment 5 weskaggs 2005-09-02 18:55:32 UTC
...which means that the only workable way to do this would be to make the clone
source into a tool option, right?
Comment 6 Sven Neumann 2005-09-02 20:00:29 UTC
No, it means that there's no wat to do that.
Comment 7 Sven Neumann 2005-09-05 12:59:13 UTC
Adding the clone source drawable to the tool-options seems like a bad idea. But
perhaps we could just add the coordinates to the GimpCropOptions. The tool would
then not any longer require the user to select a source coordinate by
Ctrl-clicking. It could just use the last-used coordinates, perhaps wrap them at
the image boundary. Not sure if that's a good idea but it might help to solve
some usability issues with the clone tool.
Comment 8 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 11:29:24 UTC
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