Pinta Make it easier to move textbox after placing

Description Currently if you place a Textbox you can't move it. It would make things a lot easier if you could move it around freely before you finshed writing the text.

Dec 26 '23 12:12 oaklinq

I think right click + drag will move the active text around, but this could be improved to be more discoverable (e.g. just left click + dragging around the border of the text)

Dec 26 '23 17:12 cameronwhite

Thanks for the answer. Right click + Drag doesn't work for me. Am I doing something wrong? Screen Recording

Dec 26 '23 18:12 oaklinq

Here is it working for me - I'm on a laptop though so this is happening via two finger click and drag on the touchpad, so I'm not sure if anything's different there

https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/assets/303951/3b227ef4-63cc-4de3-b211-c8c47ad73287

Dec 26 '23 23:12 cameronwhite

Ah ok so the two finger click changes the mouse icon for me, but I can't move it around. Maybe that's because two finger click + move is already used for scrolling? I'm on Fedora 39 with GNOME 45.

Bildschirmfoto vom 2023-12-27 07-36-37

Dec 27 '23 06:12 oaklinq

yeah you might be right about your system intercepting the two finger click + drag. I don't think Pinta is responsible for switching that cursor to the "move" icon there - it should actually be switching to a "grab" / hand cursor, but in my video above that wasn't happening which is probably a separate issue

Dec 27 '23 17:12 cameronwhite

I'm trying to switch from Paint.Net to Pinta, and I to figure out how it works. Right click + drag works for me. But on Paint.Net it's more friendly, as the "cross" cursor appears all the time, and not need for right-click for it, so its obvious how to move the text. Is current behavior final or subject to changes ?

Jan 24 '24 05:01 iksi4prs

I think the current behaviour should be changed to support left click + drag and show a cursor to display when that can happen

Jan 25 '24 03:01 cameronwhite