Hi, "Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I myself was thinking more along the lines of some text in the status > bar (or a second status bar) in the image window that shows which > layer or channel is active. get your hands on GIMP-1.3.3 and add %L to the image-title-format or image-status-format strings. There you go. > These options could be beneath buttons in a dialog that appears on > start-up instead of or along side the tool box. > > Sure, they only save some scrolling in a menu, but I believe these > extra transactional costs become a burden to a user who has gotten to > know the alternative method. > > This dialog should also be optional, so that power users will still > keep that power feeling. WinZip does this very nicely (unfortunately, > I do not know a Linux tool that gives you the choice between wizard > and power access). I'm against adding optional GUI stuff. IMO it will only confuse people, bloats the code and doesn't really solve the problem. If there is a problem with the current user interface it should be solved properly instead of being worked around. Salut, Sven
