On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
I'm both excited and biased :)
Aren't we all. :)
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.
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. I know canvas stuff isn't a tool, so perhaps the GUI stuff should get tucked somewhere such as Martin suggested. As always though, I'd rather see us have more on-canvas GUI stuff like GIMP. I really find a number of their choices to be very helpful as a user.
Cheers, Josh