Re: [XBoard-devel] 4.9.0 what's new

[Joshua Pettus]

Good news,  It does the same thing in GIMP. So I’m not worried about it 
anymore.  Ha!



> On Apr 2, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Joshua Pettus <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Apr 2, 2016, at 3:24 AM, H.G. Muller <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Op 4/2/2016 om 1:55 AM schreef Joshua Pettus:
>>> One more thing,
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>>> Wouldn’t it be better if the starting color was the current color rather 
>>> then black?
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>> Well, I wasn't sure that there would be any advantage to that (since the 
>> current color was already displayed).
>> It doesn't seem more likely that people would want a color close to the old; 
>> if they mind enough to want it
>> changed, they usually want something completely different. So any starting 
>> point seems as good as any other.
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>> If the Board dialog did contain nothing for each color than this button, the 
>> sensible thing to do would
>> be to start them in the default color of the option they control, so that 
>> people could just OK it to reset.
>> But because of the way this has evolved we have redundant 
>> text-representation and reset buttons
>> outside the picker dialog, and resetting by opening the dialog first is only 
>> cumbersome.
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> Maybe you’re right, regarding the eyedroper.  I wonder if gimp hangs when 
> it’s pressed.  If not.  what do they do differently?  I’ll try to find this 
> out for you.