On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:01 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > I also very much wonder why the window should have something as useless > as a slider to control the visual appearance but lack any useful widgets > to give people quick access to the things they will most likely do next. > What's wrong about a link to the recently used images and to the New > image dialog? Same here. I think such a slider would be a waste of both developer and user time (a _million_ users wondering: ooh, what does this slider do? ... to never touch it again ;) Reasons against having Recent/New in the window: - "visual noise" - both are in the file menu already and duplication would lessen consistency in interaction / work against habituation. But then I would prefer a window as narrow as possible, not much more than just a title and a menu bar. Any image would get old soon and putting effort into exchanging it frequently would be wasted. Reasons for having Recent/New in the window: - fast access to the only 2 things a user might want to do (well, there's also accessing preferences) - avoiding a mostly empty window which will trigger uncountable complaints through all eternity ;) The audio application Ardour has a startup dialog with New and Open Recent tabs. The dialog has its issues, but feels very useful. I never use a file manager to open a project there. For GIMP, it should be possible to have New and Recent side by side. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
