Hi, Jimmac and Tigert drew some very nice mockups for the File-New dialog: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/new_image_simple.png http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/new_image_expanded.png I have implemented this in my local tree now. Here's a screenshot of the expanded version: http://sven.gimp.org/gimp-new-image-dialog-2.png This MNG file shows both expanded and collapsed states: http://sven.gimp.org/gimp-new-image-dialog-2.mng Most of you will probably agree that this is a change to the better. However this change is more drastic as one might think at first. We always assign a unit to an image and at the moment this unit cannot be "Pixels", it needs to be a real unit. With the new dialog layout, the unit menu needs to contain Pixels or it would not be possible to easily create an image of a certain pixel size. Now what unit should be set on the image then? My first idea was to set the unit from the resolution entry. That sortof works but it's hard to understand where the Inches come from when "Dot for Dot" is toggled off for the image display. Feedback from users has shown that the way we treat units currently is hard to understand. People keep asking for ways to get lengths displayed in the choosen image unit. It's not intuitive that this relates to the "Dot for Dot" setting of the image view. Below I am proposing a couple of changes to make this easier and I'd like to get some comments on this. - Allow pixels as image unit. We will probably have to hide this new behaviour in the PDB because plug-ins might not expect to get "pixels" returned when they ask for the image's unit. We could use the resolution unit as a fallback for this. A new PDB function should then be added that maps the core behaviour. - Change the behaviour of the image display "Dot for Dot" mode. Instead of showing pixels when "Dot for Dot" is on and the image unit when it is toggled off, do always show the image unit in the rulers and in the statusbar. If the image unit is pixels, toggling dot-for-dot will not have any effect, we can gray out the menu entry then. For images with unit != pixels, dot-for-dot will only affect how the image is displayed, not what units are shown. - Add an easy way to change the image's unit. It's quite well hidden in the Image Scale dialog right now. With the changes proposed above, changing the image unit could become a more frequent task, so it should be easily accessible. I am not yet sure what parts of the core will break if we do these changes. Perhaps it's a bad idea to start with. Please comment.
