[gimp-web/testing] Final touches
- From: Alexandre Prokoudine <aprokoudine src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gimp-web/testing] Final touches
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 08:55:33 +0000 (UTC)
commit 15e6c572cf1336dfda15b12df77272a480d17643
Author: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>
Date: Fri Oct 7 11:55:11 2016 +0300
Final touches
content/news/2016-10-06 Dialog Defaults/index.md | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/content/news/2016-10-06 Dialog Defaults/index.md b/content/news/2016-10-06 Dialog
Defaults/index.md
index 7f1dfc5..820b46b 100644
--- a/content/news/2016-10-06 Dialog Defaults/index.md
+++ b/content/news/2016-10-06 Dialog Defaults/index.md
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ Early in the current development cycle we started porting existing GIMP filters
<img src="{filename}gimp-2-9-5-masks-in-xcf.jpg" alt="Using masks for digital photrography in GIMP"
width='975' height='596' />
</figure>
-The second part of improvements started with reviewing a
[patch](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759601) submitted by Benoit Touchette. As a professional
photographer, he regularly works on hundreds of photos daily and has an extensive use of masks, so he needs
to get from A to B extremely fast. So Benoit came up with a clever idea to simplify adding new masks:
clicking on layers' previews. Various modifier keys would additionally define whether you apply and remove
the mask or just drop the mask entirely.
+The second part of improvements started with reviewing a
[patch](https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759601) submitted by Benoit Touchette. As a professional
photographer, he regularly works on hundreds of photos daily and has an extensive use of masks, so he needs
to get from A to B extremely fast. Benoit came up with a clever idea to simplify adding new masks: clicking
on layers' previews. Various modifier keys would additionally define whether you apply and remove the mask or
just drop the mask entirely.
<figure>
<img src="{filename}gimp-2-9-5-easy-mask-create-tooltip.jpg" alt="Tooltips for handling masks quickly in
GIMP" width='975' height='536' />
</figure>
-The difficult part was to come up with a way to remember the last used mask initiation setting not just
within one session, but across sessions. So instead of creating a special case for just the _Add Layer Mask_
dialog, Michael Natterer added a whole new infrastructure to automatically save and load settings of dialogs.
+The difficult part was to come up with a way to remember the last used mask initiation setting not just
within one session, but across sessions. So instead of creating a special case for just the _Add Layer Mask_
dialog, Michael Natterer added a whole new infrastructure to automatically save and load the settings of
dialogs.
All the dialog defaults are stored in the _gimprc_ configuration file. To give you an idea, this is how
stroking options are saved in _gimprc_:
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The options are preserved for dialogs like _New Channel_, _Feather Selection_, _
<img src="{filename}gimp-2-9-5-prefs-dialog-defaults.png" alt="Dialog Defaults preferences page in GIMP
2.9.5" width='805' height='638' />
</figure>
-You may have noticed a few more new things about the _Preferences_ dialog. There is now a scrollbar on large
pages, to make the dialog fit small screens like the still popular 1366x768 on lower-end laptops.
Additionally, some pages now feature a reset button that restores default settings.
+You may have noticed a few more new things about the _Preferences_ dialog. There is now a scrollbar on large
pages to make the dialog fit small screens like the still popular 1366x768 on lower-end laptops (quite a few
GIMP users reported that _Preferences_ was getting too big). Additionally, some pages now feature a reset
button that restores default settings.
The dialog defaults feature will be available in GIMP 2.9.6 and, eventually, in GIMP 2.10.
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