On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:48:32 +0100, Olivier Ripoll <olivier.ripoll@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > MArk Finlay wrote: > > 1. Everyone loves a good splash screen, but now Gnome has > > startup-notification which kinda makes them superflous. [...] > > I want the splash screen! ;) I've seen Jimmac has done a new (or updated) one > in the changelog for today, and already look forward to see it! Besides, not everyone is running the GIMP under GNOME. I use GNOME on all of my Linux boxes, but none of my Solaris boxes have GNOME installed so the startup notification would not work there. > > 2. To a lot of new users the way Gimp works is quite alien. A lot of > > users just get used to it, but some find it too weird. One of the > > hardest things to get used to is right clicking on an image to access > > the menus. [...] > > For users who want to use the rightclick menu, the menubar is > > un-obtrusive and can be turned off if they really hate having it there, > > and for a lot of users this will be invaluable. I know the option is > > there already, but it's the defaults that matter. Newbies are not going > > to go looking for a menubar that they don't know exists. I agree with this. As an experienced user, I would not use the menu on top of the image windows because I can work faster with the right-click menu, but it should be enabled by default so that new users do not feel lost for the first time they use the GIMP. I would go as far as suggesting that the default should be to have a WiW MDI model (at least for the Windows version, maybe even for other platforms) because this would allow the GIMP to be more similar to other image editing programs. Cross-application consistency is more important than the efficiency of any single application, for those who do not use this application frequently. The majority of GIMP users do not use it frequently. So I think that the default configuration of the GIMP should have the menubar in the image window or even use a full MDI model. There could be a "tip of the day" suggesting to disable this menubar and to use only the right-click menu in order to save space and to work faster. The default mode should focus on cross-application consistency. -Raphaël
