twenty issues with Paint activity

[rihoward1 at gmail.com]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 3:59 PM, S Page wrote:

> Paint-23 on 8.2-763.
> These are roughly in menu order.
>
> If from Journal I double-click on a Paint activity icon, I get two  
> icons
> in the Frame, one of which has a doubled menu ("Paint Activity -  
> Resume
> - Stop - Resume - Stop") that I can't resume or stop.  When I tried to
> reproduce I got two icons, the first had the doubled menu, but this  
> time
> the second icon pulsed forever.
The above may be a general system problem.  I have seen the same
  problem with both Chat and Browse were if you double click on the icon
you end up with menu weirdness and throbbing icons.

>
>
> You can't name a paint session in Paint (6220, I added this to release
> notes).
>
> I can copy Paint's marquee selection and it appears in the frame, but
> the selection seems inactive -- it's gray, has no hover menu, I can't
> drag it.
>
> I couldn't get paste of a selection to work.
>
> The Paint fill is so slow that I assumed the app had died.
>
> The Tools menu looks like a tools palette but you it doesn't show the
> selected tool.  Actually, there is one item that looks like a selected
> tool, but it's the rounded-rect around the current color.
>
> The color selection swatches would be a lot more obvious if they  
> started
> out as the kid's XO colors instead of black and black.
>
> Meanwhile the T in the text menu does have a gray background as if  
> it's
> selected, but it isn't until you click it.  And the two effects icons
> have a white background as if they're active.
>
> If you type a pencil or brush size in their drop-down menus you can't
> dismiss the menu from the keyboard.
>
> The Pencil size seems unchanged after changing its size.
>
> Polygon tool cursor doesn't look like the polygon tool icon.
>
> The Shapes menu doesn't fit the available space, "Triangle" is in a  
> more
> items drop-down.  I would get rid of the "Line" shape so the Shapes  
> menu
> can fit on the regular screen.
>
> The menu is "Text", its menu item is "Type".  What's the difference?
>
> The image resize spinboxes are so slow if I paste a previous Paint  
> image
> in, I assumed the app had died.  If I type in the image resize text
> boxes nothing happens but I don't know if it's really slow or they're
> dead to text input.  Ideally they'd immediately show the value you  
> type
> in or spin to but then you'd get a busy cursor.
>
> I can choose anything from the Journal for Image insert, e.g. a  
> terminal
> session, but nothing happens if it isn't a previous Paint session.  Is
> Paint meant to insert the preview image of non-Paint sessions?
>
> After unsuccessfully changing the size of an inserted image, the  
> pencil
> tool works but the paint tool gets stuck as a selection marquee tool
> (makes no sense, but it's happened three times to me).
>
> The two Effects operations are next to each other and have similar  
> icons
> but do completely different things.  It would be better to separate
> them, and change the hover text for the first to "Make picture gray"
>
>
> I know, I know, "File bugs".  What do kids make of Paint?
>
> --
> =S Page
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