Hi, On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 01:43 -0300, Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris wrote: > I e mentioned once or two that when the script-fu and python-fu > scripts where brought togetehr to teh same menu space as the C > filters there would be confusion about which menu entry is associated > with a script in which language. > > I have been normally replied that "it does not matter" for the end > user in which language the script is in. > > Well...it _does_ matter. No, it doesn't. > The specif\c language matters little, but there are some side-effects. > Knowing which package brought which filter is more still important > (and also impossible in the current "everything mixed" system) > > Now I just stumbled into an 'interesting' bug arising from this > confusion: > Python-fu Whirl and Pinch had overwritten the menu entry for C Whirl > and Pinch (moreover Python whirl and pinch is currently crashing) There's a problem here in our menu registration code. I don't see why two plug-ins should not be able to install menu entries with the same label. That's a somewhat unfortunate situation then, which should of course be avoided, but at least both procedures would be accessible then. > Please notice there is no way a normal user can be aware of situations > like this. Actually, it is almost as annoying (to say the least) as > win95 and beyond "feature" of not showing the image file extensions > in the file browsers. > > But even win95 has different icons for different kinds of images. The > GIMP currently has just no clue. No clue?? We have a plug-in browser that allows you to find out quite a bit of information about the plug-in. We certainly don't need to clutter our menus by adding icons that are meaningless in almost all circumstances. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
