On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 17:02, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> While we are discussing this, I am planning to completely remove the >> selection editing, i.e. dragging chunks of bitmaps around. I find it >> utterly useless. It may have been coded at Be for demo purposes, lacking >> image editing capabilities otherwise, but I find the functionality a) >> misplaced in ShowImage, and b) much to limited to be useful anyway. And >> WonderBrush comes standard in Haiku releases... :-) > > If it matters, I sort of like that functionality. > > It makes deleting sections of the image easy -- like blanking out > names, email addresses, and other bits. The dragging of bitmap > clippings to the desktop is really fun to use, especially as > Screenshot does not have the ability to allow one to drag a selection > area before taking the screen capture. For it's power -- I actually > used ShowImage to blank out the "Get-Haiku" website graphic. > > --mmadia > > I'm with mmadia on this one. This is a feature I've always liked in ShowImage, that I could open up a newly taken screenshot and outline the section of the image I wanted and just drag it to the desktop, just as I can drag a selection of text out of StyledEdit. It's a feature I've been using for 12+ years now. ;) -scottmc