On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:47:42AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > zooming by means of mouse clicks or mouse wheel is an option but there > needs to be a UI that clearly indicates that you are able to zoom and > how to do it. Only using the mouse w/o adding any visible UI elements > is not an option from a usability point of view. ACK. > > > - Alternative preview in image window would be nice to have. > > > > Definitely. It should be toggleable from the preview widget itself. > > Also, the plugin has to choose in which mode to start. There are > > plugins for which a tiny preview is useless (e.g. global operations like > > brightness and contrast.) > > most color corrections are implemented as tools anyway. Which I find confusing - I stumbled acroos this yesterday. It is non-intuitive that something without a toolbox icon has Tool Options. > > Hmmm... what about embedding a real image inside the preview? > > I don't understand this sentence. Could you elaborate on this? I mean: Why create proxies and stuff? Just create an appropiate GimpImage and let the plugin poke on that. I'm not very familar with the GIMP internals, but I guess we don't need to re-invent the wheel there. Using a downscaled version of the actual image allows the plugin to perform _any_ operation it can do on the original image. If there was a layer-removal plugin, the removal of a layer could be previewed. Bye, Tino. -- * LINUX - Where do you want to be tomorrow? * http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag/