> gg wrote: > > I also find as a user that menus often go too deep. > > One sub-menu is acceptable , two starts to get unwieldy. Eg. I ofter copy > a selection and Paste As New , this is three levels deep. I'd like to see > this at the same level as Cut: Cut | Paste | Paste as New. I crated a > hot-key as a work around but as others have said , I would rather keep my > eyes on the screen except for typing numbers etc. Is there a reason you don't use tear-off menus? Having small sub-menus actually enhances this utility. > Another improvement would to clean up some menus. The Blur menu seems to > contain several, largely equivalent filters. Two would suffice and could > be incorporated into Enhance. Which two would suffice? Personally, I find all of them useful and I wouldn't recommend combining filters that use different algorithms into one interface -- not only would this complicate maintenance and development but menu grouping is a great indicator of a command's function. > I also created a bug about making sure sub-menus did not jump from one > side to the other. This is appalling from a usability point of view but > the comment did not get a very positive response. If your proposal were accepted, there would be reports submitted complaining that all the submenus appear on the left when there might be only one that's overly-long. My preference is to minimize the number of times that my eyes have to "jump" from the far right of menu text to the far left of sub-menu (much less appalling to just "continue reading left to right"). > Some real basics like flip and rotating an image to straighten it up > should be on the image menu. Erm, they are. > Some anomolies could be looked at, I can free-rotate a layer but not an > image. Erm, you can. > Colors | Retinex ?? What's that supposed to tell the user? It tells me that it performs an operation called Retinex on the image. If I did not know what the word Retinex meant then, just like any other word with which I was unfamiliar, I would look it up. If Retinex is an inaccurate description of the processing taking place, a change in name might be called for but otherwise I would submit that the purpose of the GIMP is not to serve as a dictionary of graphics terms. -------- "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." -- Harry S. Truman _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
