GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 710167
Scale image - enter key inactive - must use mouse click
Last modified: 2013-11-17 16:59:35 UTC
When modifying image size - the scale button cannot be activated with keyboard Process: 1/ Open a .PNG or .BMP or JPG image, 2/ use menu image 3/ select scale image on the pop up window 4/ modify the image size entering some number the Scale button is highlighted but it cannot be activated directly using <Enter Key> you need to use mouse click on it to activate or you need to use <TAB> key to move over all the fields and buttons to get the cursor back to the scale button, in this case <enter key> is ok More generally: from user point of view, it seems to exist two behaviors depending of the pop-up window "Scale layer" pop-up window have the same behavior as just described but "export" image does not, you can change the file name and <enter> and it works on the following small pop-up if you use the quality button dragging with mouse and <enter> it is ok, but if you click the number field and enter some numbers than the export button which is already/always highlighted does not work Hope that my explanations are clear enough. Thank you all for the good work on GIMP
We disabled that for usability reasons, as strange as it may sound :) When the chain is checked, entering a value in width and pressing enter will update the value in height. If we confirm the dialog at the same time, the values the user sees in the dialog are not the values the image is scaled to, which is totally unexpected.
(In reply to comment #1) Hello Michael, thanks for the reply. I understand that you (Gimp team) had received a previous bug, and made a choice. But from the user point of view, it is strange as it is. If I change a value Width, and the link with Height (chained) is enable, for me it is normal after hitting <Enter> to get a modified image with the value entered and the other matched following the chain/proportional rule, even if I did not have time to see the new calculated value before typing <Enter> The use of roll back /Undo button is here just to return to the previous version of the image if needed. But that is just my feeling. In the case (as it seems) you let the situation as is, it will better (at least) to un-highlight the Scale button. Just my two cents.
Good points, maybe we should reevaluate that dialog, can you raise the issue on the gimp-developer mailing list please? Bugzilla just doesn't have the audience for UI discussions.