----- Original Message ---- > From: Guillermo Espertino <gespertino@xxxxxxxxx> > To: Filipe Soares Dilly <filsdd@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx>; gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:51:58 PM > Subject: Re: 2.6 roadmapping, the UI part of it... > > Felipe: > Tabs don't work for image manipulation because is frequent to compare > between two+ images or work with two views (one zoomed and the other > at As an alternative, I'd like to suggest a UI setup I filched from Erdas Imagine (a GIS app). It sort-of emulates the Mac OS idea of starting an application with just a toolbar. here's the mockup (I made it long ago): http://www.geocities.com/preacher_mg/UI_gimp_menu.png After the application starts, all you see is the menu dialog at the top. It's not that different from the current setup, but a top-level "menu" is more reasonable than a top-level "toolbox". You get a single menu instead of the duplication in menus you have today (toolbox menu and image menus). You can still have the pop up dialog appear when you start Gimp, but when you close all the currently open images, you don't need to pop it up again as the menu is still there. And you can add toolbars for file operations and common dialogs. The idea of a single menu for all open documents also solves the problem of accessing menu item on small images. Imagine you are working on 10 small web buttons at the same time - currently, either some menu items will be trimmed or you have to have an image window with a lot of padding beyond the actual image size. This way, the entire menu is always visible. I'm not 100% supportive of it - it seems like a bit of a cludge - but it's an option. Oh, on more thing - taskbar buttons. if this idae is considered seriously, perhaps a move to a single taskbar button for Gimp, no matter how many images are open concurrently, should be considered. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
