Zolan Davis said... | |Please tell me the rationale behind having the drawing icons point downwards. Um, it's *natural*? Had you asked why they point from the left, I would understand your question. But the metaphor of using a pencil, or a paintbrush, or the others, is generally pointing down. Yes, your monitor is up compared to your hand, but most people are used to how you hold a pencil, or a watercolor brush when painting on a table. I won;t say it's more valid to do it as GIMP does, but I contend it is at least as valid. |On my desk, the monitor is above the mouse, and my other applications reflect this. |Far from becoming one with the brush, the Gimp arrangement seems to exaggerate indirectness; |We have to work out where the hot spot is going to be from operation to operation. And I *really* don't understand this one. It's always been intutive to me (and I had nothing to do with that part of the GIMP.) If you look in the brushes/ directory under the gimp library, you'll find the brushes. -Miles
