Ok, just to drop my 2 cents in here: I think that changing the units on the new image dialog should not convert the numbers typed in, unless if explicitly desired. On Friday 10 September 2004 09:11, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Dave Neary <dneary@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > Apart from the fact that it looks like crap, > > > > That's subjective, I don't think it does. But perhaps a mock-up > > would resolve that issue... > > I already said that the dialog design is owned by Tigert and > Jimmac. Without their approval (and mockup) there isn't going to be > any changes anyway. > > > I presumed that we would change it everywhere. There is no change > > in behaviour, merely a change in the position of the units. > > We can't do that since it would break lots of existing code. Code > that is not under our control since it lives in external plug-ins. > The only thing we could do is to write a new widget and change > hundreds of places in the GIMP source tree. Like we say around here, "you are doing a storm in a glass of water". A simple and elegant solution would be to add an "auto-convert" bool property to the widget, that is on by default. The new image dialog would just set this "auto-convert" to false. No compatibility issues. And this behavior could even be changeable as part of the preferences. (Or, in this particular instance of the widget, tehre could be put a chain link GIMP widget to the right of the entries. Maybe, the chain indicating auto-conversion could be added by default to the widget as a whole increasing the flexibility of The GIMP in tenths of dialogs. > > > Sven JS
