-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am 18.02.2007 um 11:01 schrieb Sven Neumann: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 22:12 +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote: > >> [1] >> A dialog in GIMP is defined roughly as anything that is dockable. So, >> the dialog windows that pop up when you're saving a file or applying >> a filter are not dialogs for that definition. > > Actually, pretty much every window in GIMP is called a dialog. It > would > probably be nice to come up with a better name for the dockable > dialogs. > > Usually a dialog is something modal. It pops up to allow the user to > complete a certain task and closes again. Windows that stay around > like > the dockable dialogs in GIMP are often called palettes. For some > reason > though they are called dialogs in GIMP. Perhaps we should consider to > change that at some point. Well (many) other applications call such "palette". Don't they?! I would be more than happy to see this changed. But for now I think we need to make a difference between dialogs that should be named palettes and dialog windows that is what we call these modal windows. lexA > > > Sven > - --- Remember: There are only two tools in life. WD-40, for when something doesn't move, and should, and Duct Tape, for when something is moving and it shouldn't. So does the universe explode if you spray duct tape with WD-40? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFF2Cn4R9mXLVsAbiQRAp8cAJ96hNDUj2VVSYgRTWALBGf51UeSlACfdb72 Lqbk5g5QiTUolPAWqC2ayT8= =7NFV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
