07-15-2025, 02:40 AM
(07-14-2025, 07:56 PM)CmykStudent Wrote: JibDobFackle: I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by "the least that seems needful".
Regarding the default paste behavior, I imagine it's going to stay as-is. If floating selections are preferred, it's entirely possible to change what Ctrl + V does (as mentioned earlier). We'll continue to improve the UX based on user feedback of course.
It's kind of like the non-destructive filters. Those are a very useful (and *long* requested) feature, but it's definitely been confusing for people use to destructive filters in GIMP 2.10 and below. Part of the issue is due to unimplemented features, and part of that is due to necessary UX improvements we need to make. We're not going to remove the feature since it'd be a step backwards - but we're also working to make it more user friendly for new and longtime GIMP users.
The 'least that seems needful': I wrote, in an earlier post, that confounding changes out to be (as I put it) 'flagged prominently.' To explain: it is bad to do either of the following without explanation: break work-flows; confound the expectations of someone new to the software. So: in the release notes (and/or release announcements), any new behaviour that is liable very much to throw people ought to be mentioned in a way that is hard to miss. Thus - to take the case in point - there should be (and have been) something that every downloader and updater was liable to see that said something like: 'Attention! Pasting no longer works as it used to! For details, see . . ' Something along those lines would have reduced the frustration and then borderline rage that I felt about no long being able to do something that I did all the time in previous versions (or at least no longer being able to do it in the old way; and I was not aware of any instructions about how to do it at all).