Including a nine yard long list of options in every dialog is bad. But let us not forget that we have a rich legacy of Unix heritage to uphold. What that means to me is giving the power user the option of taking enough power to burn out every synapse in her body, if she so desires... just don't make it *too* easy for her to get at it. The PDB is a terrific junk heap of an interface. If you want to provide some obscure options, I think that's the place to do it. Anyone weird enough to want them can homebrew (and/or distribute) a script to use what's there. And the rest of us, who see in the red-to-violet spectrum, have no more than two eyes per head, and have deep-seated notions about which way is "up", will keep control of the mainstream interface for our own selfish desires. This message has been sponsored in part by the "Software for Terrans" campaign, Keeping Free Software Free -- for Humans. -- Kevin Turner <acapnotic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | OpenPGP encryption welcome here Plug-ins: They make GIMP do stuff. http://gimp-plug-ins.sourceforge.net/ This list is archived at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gimp-developer To unsubscribe, mail gimp-developer-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
