Re: 4.9.0 what's new

Joshua Pettus <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Apr 2016 09:34:41 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.xboard.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good news,  It does the same thing in GIMP. So I’m not worried about it anymore.  Ha!



> On Apr 2, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Joshua Pettus <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Apr 2, 2016, at 3:24 AM, H.G. Muller <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Op 4/2/2016 om 1:55 AM schreef Joshua Pettus:
>>> One more thing,
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>>> Wouldn’t it be better if the starting color was the current color rather then black?
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>> Well, I wasn't sure that there would be any advantage to that (since the current color was already displayed).
>> It doesn't seem more likely that people would want a color close to the old; if they mind enough to want it
>> changed, they usually want something completely different. So any starting point seems as good as any other.
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>> If the Board dialog did contain nothing for each color than this button, the sensible thing to do would
>> be to start them in the default color of the option they control, so that people could just OK it to reset.
>> But because of the way this has evolved we have redundant text-representation and reset buttons
>> outside the picker dialog, and resetting by opening the dialog first is only cumbersome.
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> Maybe you’re right, regarding the eyedroper.  I wonder if gimp hangs when it’s pressed.  If not.  what do they do differently?  I’ll try to find this out for you.