agree with Peter, (part of my job is to improve user interaction && UI usability) separators are good, even better are spacers (like in Firetox and Thunderbird [fluid spacers]) also a line OR a background surrounding a group of buttons are good for focusing to a 'grouped set of functions' ...instead of individual buttons. anyhow : 2 cigars peter sikking wrote: > Bill wrote: > >> It seems to me >> that the separators are not that important, because the categories >> are pretty artificial in the first place, and were really imposed >> mostly >> to give the very long list some structure, as far as I can see. >> But this >> is something that you should consider. > > separators are very important in a menu, to be able to deal with many > (> 5) > items, by putting them in sub groups, you get your bearing for aiming. > even arbitrary sub-grouping is better than none. > >> Anyway, I would like to make this change, and I wonder if there are >> objections. > > yeah, this is also harder to use because you have to do a controlled > sideways movement to get from one column to the other. > > sorry: no cigar... > > --ps > > founder + principal interaction architect > man + machine interface works > > http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
