Rotate: Align: Perpendicular | Parallel options are not clear (Parallel and Perpendicular - to what? Only one line is drawn, and both ideas demand two lines)
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100
Research direction
Reproduce the issue in Pix by opening an image, using Tools > Rotate, and selecting Align. Inspect the Parallel and Perpendicular labels and any associated help text; done means the options clearly explain their reference or describe the horizontal and vertical outcomes.
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Description
Distribution
Mint 21.2
Package version
3.0.2+victoria
Frequency
Always
Bug description
I have discovered a brilliant alignment function. It appears under the Rotation group, the free Rotation tool, has an Align feature.
It has two rather cryptic choices, Parallel and Perpendicular.
Then I am able to draw a (one) line, and it acts. This make no linguistic sense to me, and is anything but comprehensible and intuitive, alas. One line must be parallel or perpendicular to another, the idea demands a reference line. Which is ot mentioned.
Empirically, we can determine that the reference line is vertical and implicit, and that parallel will rotate such that the drawn line is vertical, and Perpendicular will rotate such that the drawn line is Horizontal.
To wit, these options, IMHO, should be Vertical and Horizontal respectively. And that suddenly makes sense. Draw a line on the image, to make it either horizontal or vertical.
Steps to reproduce
- Open an image with Pix
- On the Tools palette under TRotation, click the Rotate button.
- Click the Align button,
Expected behavior
For the text on that tool to explain how to use it. Not to confuse the reader.
Additional information
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