Ported SelectorAdvanced.pm from GooCanvas2 to DrawingArea - #826
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Briefly tested this: you cannot start selection on top of the help text |
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Using the right click window, I can move the selection past the screen size to the right |
on one hand, the previous behaviour was buggy when the click happened near the bottom right corner on the other, this new behavior would break if there are several monitors arranged in a way that the bottom right corner is outside of any monitor? |
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another question: did you test it with hidpi? |
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Thanks for the comments!
I'll try to get it fixed!
How can this happen?
Unfortunately, I currently own no hidpi screen. Maybe I should buy one for Shutter testing. 😄 |
me neither. My only screen is non-hidpi. So I can't test all these things
I cannot confirm that this is indeed what happens, since ^, but I think this may be the case if the screens are arranged e.g. like this: 
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Since GooCanvas2 is archived and Debian seems to consider kicking Shutter out of testing, I started porting Shutter from GooCanvas2 to Gtk3::DrawingArea. I started with SelectorAdvanced.pm because it introduces the only hard dependency on GooCanvas2, the dependency in DrawingTool.pm is optional.
I need to admit that I heavily used AI to do the port. The functionality and the optics is identical to the old implementation (only the coordinates menu is now fixed at the bottom right rather than appearing next to the mouse pointer but this seems to be a restriction introduced by DrawingArea) but the code is put together from AI generated snippets, so I cannot guarantee high code quality.
But since all members of our team have only little time to spare for Shutters development, I figured that this is better than just leaving it with an outdated dependency for many months or years, till a proper rewrite is finished.