Lourens Veen schrieb: > Sven Neumann wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > this sounds reasonable to me. On the other hand, this would render the > > bucket fill tool almost useless since you can do the color and pattern > > fill much easier using DND. The sole advantage of the Bucket Fill tools > > is the threshold functionality and the fact that the possibility to fill > > using DND is not obvious. > > I feel that that last one is a problem. The GUI needs to be consistent. > Why not stick to three basic things: tools, filters, and scripts. That is not correct. You will need some more things. -Shortcuts: Operations like "Fill with FG color" or "Delete Selection" that can be called from the menu or by keystroke. -Dialogs: Showing you information or allowing to set options for all tools, for a window, a image or the whole program. (e.g. Brush window, Image Info) -Actions not changing the image: Zoom, New View, Rulers, ... > The > tools should all be in the Gimp main window as buttons (or maybe only > partially in "beginner mode" if we do the config/skin thing, sounds good > to me btw, ICQ has it too for example), and the filters should be in > Image->Filters, scripts would go into Image-Scripts. These should then > be subdivided into logical groups, from the user side, not from the > programmer side. The user doesn't care if a script was written in Perl > or in Scheme, he cares about what it does to his image. The unobvious > things can stay, but please, keep them as hidden functionality for power > users, not as the only possible way to do it. > Ok, but what you state here is not a problem. Ok, you have difficulties to tell a tool apart from just a fancy function (curve tool anyone). But this is no real problem. The bottom line is: "Who can tell what to do with the UI." Ralf > > Lourens > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer -- -------------------------------------------------------- Ralf Engels, Dipl. Informatiker Rücker GmbH Ulm Lise-Meitner-Str. 15 89081 Ulm Germany privat Tel: 07348/967496 Fax: 0731/9266135 ralf-engels@xxxxxx http://sol.spaceports.com/~engels/index.html gesch Tel: 0731/9544143 Fax: 0731/9544191 Ralf.Engels@xxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------
