GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 322028
Add Brush resize keyboard Shortcuts
Last modified: 2006-02-24 23:46:42 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
Created attachment 55025 [details] VBR brush set VBR brush set to make brush size keyboard shortcut useable.
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.
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.
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.
*** Bug 322176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
> 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?