Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: > > I know I'm repeating myself, but why not use _both_? In the case of > > the opacity slider, the number is displayed right beside it. Making > > this number a spinbutton would not take up very much more screen real > > estate and it would allow everyone to work with the value in the > > manner they prefer. > > > > I'd like to see more slider/spinbox combinations in the GIMP. The > > slider is great for figuring out the correct value but being able > > to tune it by typing in a number is essential for precision work. > > Why not use slider - input box combination? You can adjust the slider with > keyboard, so the spinbutton is kinda unnecessary - or you can just insert a > value there.. > > If we put there a slider _and_ a spinbutton, we need to beware of making the > dialogs too large - not everyone has a 21" screen with high resolution, and > the always-present problem is the screen estate that happens to be too small > all the time (except when you are doing a 24x24 pixel gnome-stock icon :) > > Thoughts? I am open to correction and willing to learn new GUI things :) > > Tuomas > > -- > > .---( t i g e r t @ g i m p . o r g )---. > | some stuff at http://tigert.gimp.org/ | > `---------------------------------------' While we are on the topic of sliders / spinbuttons / entry widgets, I'd like to point out that it would be nice if the same discussion could be applied to the l&c&p dialog where transparency in the layer is concerned. I like the slider, but it would be very nice to have the number next to it (the transparency percent) be interactive via a text entry blank thing. It would be a Good Thing [tm], imo. PS: I like having a slider better than a spinbutton on the ink tool because you can slide it all the way to the max or min w/o having to incriment slowly one-by-one (like with a spinner) -- Garrett LeSage - Linux.com Art Director garrett@xxxxxxxxx - http://linux.com/
