On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 11:50:53AM -0700, Michael J. Hammel wrote: > Thus spoke Federico Mena Quintero > > It is rather annoying to have to think about which is which every time > > you want to perform one of these operations. "Set Canvas Size" and > > "Scale Image" or are better labels. > > The difference in the actual operation performed is subtle, so finding > words to describe the difference (especially if you limit it to what can > fit in a menu) will be difficult. Resize Canvas and Scale Image ? > > These two are as good as any I've heard so far. The only thing about it is > that I'm not sure the rest of the menus and documentation refers to the > Image Window (as I've always called it) as the "Canvas". I think Canvas is > appropriate terminology and probably better than Image Window, but a check > should be made to be certain the term is used consistantly to refer to the > window in which the composite image is displayed. > > I suspect a similar change would need to be made to the Layer menu, ie "Set > Layer Size" instead of "Layer Resize". Just for consistancy sake. Resize Layer and Resize Canvas would be consistent, but what do others think? I dont want to be too pushy on these :) But I like the term "Canvas". Tig -- .---( t i g e r t @ g i m p . o r g )---. | some stuff at http://tigert.gimp.org/ | `---------------------------------------'
