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Bug 322028 - Add Brush resize keyboard Shortcuts
Add Brush resize keyboard Shortcuts
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Tools
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: 2.4
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-21 13:26 UTC by michael grosberg
Modified: 2006-02-24 23:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
VBR brush set (4.67 KB, application/oda)
2005-11-21 13:27 UTC, michael grosberg
Details

Description michael grosberg 2005-11-21 13:26:06 UTC
GIMP currently lacks keyboard shortcuts to increase and decrease the size of VBR
type brushes.
In the name of cross-application usability I suggest using the same shortcuts as
Adobe Photoshop:
[ decreases size, ] increases size
I suggest also adding SHIFT+[ for "decrease more" and SHIFY+] for "increase more".

Since this requires that brushes be converted to VBR instead of GBR as they are
now, I created a set of VBR round brushes, both hard and soft, as well as
caligraphic and star shaped. they can be downloaded here:
http://www.geocities.com/preacher_mg/brushes.html
Comment 1 michael grosberg 2005-11-21 13:27:45 UTC
Created attachment 55025 [details]
VBR brush set

VBR brush set to make brush size keyboard shortcut useable.
Comment 2 Michael Schumacher 2005-11-21 14:22:55 UTC
These shortcuts are rather hard to type on a german keyboard layout. Aren't
there keys that can be reached more easily on as many layouts as possible?

For brush replacement, there is already bug 157506. You should attach your
brushes there and maybe also provide a comparison to the existing GBR as it was
done with the older ones.
Comment 3 Sven Neumann 2005-11-21 15:54:34 UTC
I agree with Michael Grosberg that we should be using the default PS shortcuts
here. We will never find shortcuts that work on all keyboard layouts and since
we are coding this application in en_US, it makes sense to use defaults that are
reasonable on an american keyboard layout. At some point it may make sense to
think about localizing the default keyboard shortcuts.
Comment 4 Sven Neumann 2005-11-21 16:08:46 UTC
2005-11-21  Sven Neumann  <sven@gimp.org>

	* app/actions/context-actions.c (context_brush_radius_actions):
	added default keyboard shortcuts for changing the brush radius
	as suggested in bug #322028.

Comment 5 Sven Neumann 2005-11-23 12:34:28 UTC
*** Bug 322176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Kristoffer Lundén 2006-02-24 23:46:42 UTC
> I agree with Michael Grosberg that we should be using the default PS shortcuts
here.

The default PS shortcuts - at least on Swedish PS - is , and . which would work on  most keyboards. Though localizing the shortcuts is probably the only way forward. 

Features that are impossible to do and find are effectively non-existant, as there are literary hundreds of possible shortcuts to set, they important ones like this aren't going to be found by the user. Therefore, shortcuts ideally should follow the established defaults for each keyboard layout.

Btw, these shortcuts aren't working at all, because there are no brushes included that can handle it?