On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 21:24:51 +0200, "Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 4 Aug 2003, at 15:43, Alan Horkan wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Simon Budig wrote: [...] > > > Uh, making all the long time GIMP users grumpy because the shortcuts > > > they are used to use do no longer work and they have to reconfigure > > > them to the old default "costs nothing"? > > > > You mean the existing GIMP users dont already have custom menurc > > files? You mean if we provided a GIMP 1.2 menurc for those who wanted > > it, our current users dont already know how to change a menurc? (we > > need an Inteface for this, and I need to make sure there is a bug > > report about it). You mean GIMP doesn't allow you to migrate your old > > settings when you upgrade to a new version? > > Since I have no way of looking on the harddisks of all GIMP's users, > I have no way of knowing, but I am guessing that, indeed, a large > number of the current GIMP users do not have custom menurcs, and do > not know how to change those. I don't think that it could be done in time for 2.0, but it would have been nice to use a Photoshop-friendly menurc as the default for 2.0 and insert the following stuff in the user installation step: - Check if the user has a ~/.gimp or ~/.gimp-1.2 directory. - If not, install the new menurc without asking any questions. - If yes, insert a page with the following question as part of the user installation dialogs: "Version 2.0 of the GIMP comes with a new set of keyboard shortcuts that should be more convenient for new users. You have been using a previous version of the GIMP, so you may want to keep the old shortcuts instead. Please select one of the following options: [X] Use the new GIMP 2.0 shortcuts [ ] Use the old GIMP 1.x shortcuts (not customized) [ ] Copy your existing shortcuts (customized) Now that I think about it, the whole "upgrade" part is something that would be (have been) very nice to have in 2.0: helping the user to move from an older version of the GIMP to the current one, letting the user choose what should be copied over. -Raphaël
