How to scale selections?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Michael Thaler wrote:

> On Friday 01 July 2005 17:51, Casper Boemann wrote:
>
> > BUT just scaling the selection seems wrong. At least the transform visitor
> > does more than that. It uses the selection to mask out what part of the
> > source is scaled.
>
> I think this is fine for the transform visitor. But if you scale the whole
> image with the "change image size..." dialog, I think the whole image
> including the selection should be scaled and not only the selected region.
> The selection should be the same as before, just rescaled with them image.
> This is also what GIMP does. What do you think?

I think it's good to have both option: that also makes it clear why
we have both tools.