Hi, RaphaÃl Quinet <quinet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am questioning this because I think that the fact that the toolbox > is "special" is an artificial limitation that should go away in a > future release in order to make the user interface more consistent and > easier to use. This discussion is about proper defaults for GIMP-2.0, not some future plans. > Let's imagine for a moment that the menu can be moved to any dock, and > the tools area is just a grid view that can also be moved around. We > may have to ensure that at least one menu is present in some dock, but > this may not even be necessary if the functions can be accessed in > some other way. If we achieve this, then the mental model of how the > GIMP behaves becomes much simpler: > - There is one, two or any number of windows (docks) that can include > various controls acting on the image windows. > - All docks are session-managed top-level windows. Their size and > position are kept accross sessions. > - All docks are equal and can host any number of tabs, including the > one containing the tools. > - The main menu is just another thing that can be included (or not) in > a dock. If present, it would appear at the top of the dock. > > Wouldn't this be easier to understand and work with? The user simply > has a number of control windows in which several dockable items can be > organized in any way they want. And none of them is more "special" > than the others. I seriously doubt that this would make it easier for the user. In my opinion it only adds an completely unneeded level of configurability and thus complexity. The GIMP should have a common window that everyone (and the docs) can refer to as "the toolbox". I don't see any good reason of changing this. Sven
