Proposal: Canvas Interaction Enhancements

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tue, 15 May 2012, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> * Ideally, we'd be able to completely get rid of the zoom and pan tool --
>> the color picker tool has an extra information panel and settings like the
>> radius, but maybe we can put the information in the overview panel. I'm
>> not sure artists actually use the radius to sample the average color?
> Right now, color picking works like this: "color is selected on click release"
>
> Here is a suggestion. which would remove the need for radius to sample and
> might make it more usefull for artists: the user press and hold the mouse
> button, then the colour get continuously mixed with the colour on the canvas,
> until the user release the mouse.
>
> So basically, as long as the user click and release, it is the same behaviour
> as now. But if he wants some kind of radius to sample, he just have to keep
> the button down and move his mouse pointer.
>

Sounds like a good idea to me indeed.

Boudewijn