On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Josh Andler wrote:
In my never an humble :) opinion, once there is an easy shortcut, there is no reason whatsoever to have that slider.
Accessibility? Usability for those unfamiliar? I don't believe it is the best place for the slider by any means, but I do think where it is to be adjusted via GUI (other than shortcuts) it makes sense.
I guess it's just the sights of that huge slider that is driving me nuts :) It doesn't necessarily have to be like that. IMO, there's some tentative design to research.
If you want to easily reset canvas rotation, add a menu item and make it shortcuttable :). In GIMP, we do just that: there's a menu item to reset both canvas rotation and canvas flipping. It also states the current rotation angle. Needless to say, slider not required.
Menu item w/ reset shortcut makes sense. I can't speak to how canvas rotation is handled in GIMP aside from the menu items for arbitrary angles, but the rotate tool in GIMP has both a spinbox and a slider for angle (at least in 2.9.5)... which I think is a win for usability.
The Unified Transform Tool doesn't have any such thing, and there in fact used to be some controversy over keeping old tools with their numeric inputs.
I know canvas stuff isn't a tool, so perhaps the GUI stuff should get tucked somewhere such as Martin suggested.
Yep, Martin's idea totally makes sense to me.
Alex