On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 11:58:57 +0200, "Tino Schwarze" <tino.schwarze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. This is very important and unfortunately the usability aspect "no hidden features" has been overlooked too frequently in the past. See for example: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51108 For many users, any feature that is not visible in the GUI does not exist. > > 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. We are talking about gimp-1.3.x. In the developer's version, all tools (including color correction tools) have an icon in the toolbox. The color correction tools are now listed under "Tools" in the menus, and not anymore under "Image->Colors->..." -Raphaël
