After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 632027 - Remove Text Tool "GIMP Text Editor"
Remove Text Tool "GIMP Text Editor"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Tools
git master
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-10-13 05:18 UTC by Martin Nordholts
Modified: 2012-11-09 09:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Martin Nordholts 2010-10-13 05:18:23 UTC 
Since we have capable on-canvas text editing when using the Text Tool now, we should torture and kill the "GIMP Text Editor" popup dialog.

See bug 625273 for some discussion.
Comment 1 Martin Nordholts 2010-10-16 19:28:35 UTC 
There are still some things to consider before we can remove it completely:
* Debugging aid
* Text-on-path usecases
Comment 2 Martin Nordholts 2011-03-09 06:43:11 UTC 
We can keep it in 2.8..
Comment 3 Michael Natterer 2011-03-18 12:02:25 UTC 
Made the thing at least a complete alternative:

commit df731912a51839b8c143a23fc8461c342290db2f
Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
Date:   Fri Mar 18 12:58:32 2011 +0100

    app: add a GimpTextStyleEditor to the text tool's editor dialog
    
    so it's an alternative to on-screen editing for esoteric use cases
    that can do everything on-screen editing is capable of.

 app/tools/gimptextoptions.c     |   10 ++++++++--
 app/tools/gimptextoptions.h     |    5 ++++-
 app/tools/gimptexttool-editor.c |   10 ++++++++--
 app/widgets/gimptexteditor.c    |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 app/widgets/gimptexteditor.h    |    5 ++++-
 5 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

I propose closing this bug as WONTFIX because even full featured
text layout apps have optional separate text edit dialogs, because
there are cases where wysiwyg editing is simply not feasible (HUGE fonts,
symbol fonts, whatever).
Comment 4 Michael Natterer 2012-11-09 09:47:15 UTC 
Nobody opposed my suggestion to close as WONTFIX in 1.5 years.