04-02-2022, 10:07 AM
(04-01-2022, 07:08 PM)PapaBear1 Wrote: Hmmmmm --- I don't follow that at all. But that's on me. You must be describing some more complicated process that I've just never encountered. Even if it allowed you to move one 'selection' without moving the content (while others are selected - somehow) - then what? This would imply that I could still somehow plant the content in the new location after moving it - but that doesn't sound like that is the case. I'm still wondering what this other process is if it is not ending up with stuff being moved. It sounds like we must use this Copy/Paste process every time to actually move something. Is Copy/Paste etc. complicated? No, but it is not intuitive with what a normal user would expect to happen when they select something and then try to move it with a "move selection" tool. Calculus is easy once you learn it too. Ha...
Apart from not requiring the anchor step is the process not dissimilar to using a word processor or text editor? With these programs you would select the text that you want to copy or move, cut or copy, move the cursor to where you want the text to appear and then paste. The difference with GIMP is that the order becomes cut/copy, paste then move (followed, optionally, by anchor).
Again, although it doesn't require the anchor step moving items in LibreOffice Draw is the same as in GIMP - copy, paste then move.
(Using the Move tool to move the selection is akin to being able to move the selection highlight in a word processing program without moving the highlighted characters. But for what you are trying to do don't use the Move tool.)