Comment 6 for bug 2047495

I agree, if someone types in text, it can be assumed that he or she is intending to paste the text. But... it can also mean, he or she stopped typing and wants to paste the image. We actually can't be sure, what he or she is doing.

Now it works like, someone is in text field, tries to paste the image and image is not pasted and no error is produced. In this case it looks like program is broken. But... now we require from the user that he or she understands that text is not finalized yet. A concept not really seen on the other programs, like text editors for example. In this case program gets more complicated to use. But in my humble opinion Pinta should be simple to use image editor. If someone wants complicated and powerful, Gimp can be used.

P.S. Similar annoyance is when user selects some area with Rectangle Select and then tries to Paint outside of selection, nothing happens, no error, nothing... It looks like a bug, but it is not, program just restricts to paint outside of selection. This is probably another case, when using Pinta is not simple, but it should be. I just opened a new bug 2047734 report, for this issue, to follow one issue per bug report.