On 10/12/06, Philip Ganchev <phil.ganchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi. I have a suggestion for a new and simple way to interact with GIMP. A major difficulty in using GIMP, in my experience, is that the menus are too many and too deep. To invoke an action on an image, or to open a dialog box, the user spends a lot of time and concentration navigating the menus, usually with the mouse. And, despite best efforts to organize the menus, finding the right item for the operation you want can be difficult. A more efficient alternative would be to let the user try to express his intention more freely, and show him a menu of options that might be what he wants. This is in effect search for the right command, and the user sees the list of options *as he types*. A command is any conventional menu item or folder in the current menu hierarchy.
I guess you should have a menu or a similar interface in addition/tandem with a query interface. I have implemented a similar solution in my prototypes of more advanced layer interfaces and added one more thing, items can exist in multiple locations in the menu system with the aim to make it easier finding what you are looking for when only browsing the menu as well. http://pippin.gimp.org/tmp/search-menu.gif contains a recorded animation of the UI elements I've been using. /Øyvind K. -- «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed» -- William Gibson http://pippin.gimp.org/ http://ffii.org/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
