Hi, Ask politely next time. Go away! bye, --Mitch <timecop@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > * 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. > > -- > $B!&!E!D(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,!D!E!&(B > timecop at japan.co.jp | $B#O#ADL?.%5%S!<%93t<02q<R(B | NTT DoCoMo > I thought everything that Linus Torvalds is involved with was divine > perfection? Must be a problem with NEC and Sony -about Crusoe recall > $B!&!E!D(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,(,!D!E!&(B
