select all and deselect

[Sven Langkamp]

On 5/19/07, Casper Boemann <cbr at boemann.dk> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2007 13:28, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > > The major problem we have with select all/deselect is that unlike the
> > > gimp or
> > > photoshop we don't show wether a selection is active or not.
> > > I am a bit concern by removing either one, will the user who wants to
> > > remove a
> > > selection understand that select all is the same ? and the other way
> > > around ? "Deselect / Select All" won't be good either. But maybe we can
> > > find a name that would match both actions.
> >
> > Now there is a difference: When everything is selected  marching ants
> > would be around it, just like in Gimp or Photoshop.
> hmm, that would mean we have marching ants all the time. I don't say I mind,
> but it could be considered destractive. Maybe a config option to say "dont
> show ants when all is selected"

Always showing marching ants is a bit too destractive and unnecessary
wastes power e.g. when using Krita on a laptop. With that config
option I don't see much difference to the current behavior, so would
prefer the current system.