select all and deselect

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 19 May 2007, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2007, 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.
>
> So as we will allways have a selection, we will allways have marching ants
> ? Or are you suggesting that we should keep having a "no selection state"
> and a "everything is selected state" ?

In Gimp, the marching ants don't march if you have selected all (which is the 
state Gimp starts in).



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Boudewijn Rempt 
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