* When I press Alt-F and then "x" on my keyboard, The Gimp doesn't exit.
* I see completely fucking useless tearoff menus on top of every
menu. They get in the way, sometimes tear off by mistake, and in
general seem to be designed to annoy the fuck out of the user
* I cannot use 90% of GIMP's features from keyboard. Hardly any of the
menus have keyboard shortcuts.
* None of the dialogs have keyboard shortcuts. And I don't mean a
shortcut to bring up the dialog. I mean keyboard hotkeys to navigate
inside the dialog from control to control.
* Tab order on most dialogs is idiotic.
* 90% of the dialogs don't have properly setup default action buttons. I
want to press enter in the "New Image" dialog and expect it to go away.
Don't blame GTK, that you can't activate a default button when you are
inside of a entry. Fix it. Gnome people fixed it, not that it was the
best way to do it.
* I can never get rid of an accidentally brought up dialog using the "esc"
key. Adding code to do this would be so simple I am curious why nobody
bothered to do that. It should naturally default to activating dialog's
"Cancel" button.
* Contents of about half of the dialog boxes seems to be entries in a
contest for the next century's ugliest user inteface. What ever
happened to uniform interface?
* Configurable menu shortcut keys? Who the fuck uses that? I would
rather see consistent menu hotkeys so I can do Alt-F-X to exit the
application rather than be able to customize what key I press to save
the image. Another useless feature, in my opinion.
* Did I mention that tearoff menus either need to go away, or be
configurable by the user, with ability to completely disable them? I
understand that whoever designed tearoff menus used to sleep dreaming
about motif and CDE, but still, not everyone is nuts like that.
I have been a long time gimp user since like version 0.9-something, and
contributed some code even back in 1998, but this is getting out of
hand. I was hoping close to the 1.2 release someone would at least bother
looking into the human interface features of this program. I appreciate
how cool the program is as far as features go, but if it's unusable by
your average joe user, nobody will like it. All of the things I mentioned
above are very easily fixable, even if that means adding extra code to
handle it. Menu hotkeys are absolutely necessary, and for god's sake dont
fucking use "Quit", its E-X-I-T, not QUIT. Look at any professional
application. Also, may I suggest reading "Designing User Interfaces" on
your favorite MSDN mirror. While 100% of you are going to balk at the
fact its about Windows, it's very interesting reading nevertheless. Of
course, implementing most of the things mentioned there would require
rewriting GTK and it's idiocy regarding keyboard control, but at least
some things could be done.
tc. this is NOT a troll, but a increasing concern I have about all GUI
applications created for Linux.
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I thought everything that Linus Torvalds is involved with was divine
perfection? Must be a problem with NEC and Sony -about Crusoe recall
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