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[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Ellipse select tool (E) with shift (and optionally ctrl) pressed after starting the drag -> Edit menu -> Stroke Selection

[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gave me a stroke reading this, thanks Stallman.

[–] IjonTichy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, see GIMP is Gnu Image Manipulation Tool, not Image Creation Tool. And Linux philosophy is to do one thing well. So give GIMP a break for doing the other things poorly and with shit UX.

[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Actually GIMP is not UNIX, ur supposed to write out vector graphic coordinates with sed and then pipe them with the terminal onto this minimal C program that pre-renders the image into a SVG, and then start a cronjob which regulary checks if...