GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 331252
Common movement buttons
Last modified: 2008-01-15 13:05:22 UTC
In the move tool, Let there be buttons that directly position the selection or layer to the top, right, bottom, center, .. etc (the nine common positions) of the layer or image respectively. Also two more buttons which do "center horizontally" and "center vertically."
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147437 ***
So long ago, I requested that there be a way to tell the move tool what pixel position to place the layers corner at. At the time, all I needed was to be able to tell the move tool to put the upper left corner into a specific location. The need for this would arise while making precise layouts on images. That (enhancement request) bug report is long gone now; I cannot find it to say if it is a WONTFIX or NOTABUG. When I approach the new layer adjustment tool with those original needs in mind, I am befuddled and confused. It should not be so complicated. The request that I made simply would have eliminated those steps with positioning the guides for a location that I already knew and needed to move only one layer to. Where do bug reports go when they die?
Reopening at Sven's suggestion. However I don't think the specific proposal in the original report is adequate, because it gives no way to, for example, align the bottom edges of a set of items without shifting them horizontally. This is something I need to do very commonly when creating figures.
I fail to see this as a duplicate of #147437
Created attachment 59488 [details] Example original image presenting a quick and dirty example .This is the mockup when the image is in its original state. Rest of the images are examples of what will happen to this image when the "gradient"ed button is pressed. The toolbox shown is only a part which is best placed on the tool options of the "move" Tool.
Created attachment 59489 [details] horizontal
Created attachment 59490 [details] Vertical
Created attachment 59491 [details] Left
Created attachment 59492 [details] Top
Whupsie! I goofed up in the examples. i forgot to change the title from "original image" to "center horizontal" and "center vertical". i hope that is self evident.
Created attachment 59493 [details] Top Left
Yet another idea. the Center horizontally and Center vertically buttons can be kept in center of the 9-button box.
Just a quick check: do you know the align tool of current GIMP 2.3 releases?
Did I mention I am using 2.2.6? :-(
You won't get any new features in 2.2, anyway. And the align tool in the current development releases is really coming close to your suggestion, and having access to a development release helps a lot when suggesting new features, because you can try them early if they get in fast. See the release notes for hints about getting 2.3 without loosing 2.2. http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.3.html
Thanx :-)
(In reply to comment #16) > Thanx :-) Does this mean that you are trying to get GIMP built from CVS and that you will add more comments regarding your request after having tried the align tool yourself? Or should we not wait for you and proceed (e.g. by clearing up what exactly neo thinks the align tool should be removed, as seen in bug 147437)?
Though I will try getting GIMP from cvs, It wont happen for a few days. So please continue without me.
A related bug is probably bug 78730. Having a means of constraining the move tool to horizontal or vertical combined with canvas snapping would easily handle top/left/bottom/right alignement and combinations thereof. It won't handle center alignment or alignment to other layers.
IMO this is handled by the align tool, thus the bug should be NEEDINFO in order to see if Laxminarayan Kamath agrees.
Laxminarayan Kamath: have you yet been able to try version 2.3.x to answer michael's last comment?
Finally, have been able to use 2.3 dev version and the Align tool is _exactly_ what I wanted. Hats off to the developers. I was able to speed up a lot of pending edits due to the feature. By the way, it doesnt seem to work for selection - correct me if I am wrong. [ not much of a trouble though.. just pointing out.] Two more nice options would be * Use selection as target and the current layer as reference. * Use selection as target and the image as reference.
This bug is "Fixed" at least in my view.. I got what I asked for.
cool, thanks for the feedback :-)