Re: Quick cropping with GIMP, like in XV

On 2008-05-30, Michael Soibelman <in-the@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Joost Diepenmaat wrote:
>
>> Ignoramus23731 <ignoramus23731@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> 
>>> I use XV for image editing, since 90% of time all I need to do is
>>> quick crop and resize. XV has nice keyboard shortcuts.
>>  [ ... ]
>>> What I want to avoid is using menus.
>>>
>>> So. How do I quickly crop and resize with GIMP using keyboard
shortcuts?
>> 
>> My relatively current gimp (2.4.5) does this like: press ****ft+C (to
>> select the crop tool) -> select rectangle with the mouse -> press
>> enter. I believe 2.2 and earlier do not crop on enter.
>> 
> Also in 2.4.5 (2.4.6 released today!) in the Main menu go
> to 'File' -> 'Keyboard Shortcuts' to see all the existing shotcuts or to
> modify any you want to use...

Very nice. I am  keyboard shortcut kind of person. I have 2.4.5 on my
Ubuntu Hardy. 

If only GIMP started a little faster. I would then give up on XV
altogether. Right now I am not yet ready. 

Too bad that John Bradley slackened off and did not release XV under
GPL. 

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