Forwarding accidentally done personal reply. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Laxminarayan Kamath <kamathln@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:04:01 +0530 Subject: Re: no-image-open redux To: Bill Skaggs <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxx> About changing the menu .. Would the end user like a perpetually changing menu. At least I have got tired of playing this "hide and seek" with the menu items every time a new version of the GIMP comes in. Supposing now there is no choice, .. if I were to shorten the menu, I would keep the "View" menu, and move the select menu into "Edit". But then that is my preference. And yes, I see no problem in doing away with the toolbar. The four options you have provided are nothing but the four first options in the "file" menu. In the perspective of a beginner, if the beginner finds no such toolbar, he will explore the menus. And it will probably be only two more seconds than otherwise that he finds those options. In the perspective of a pro, he will know "Ctrl+n" and "Ctlr+o" anyways. So it does not help much anyway. On 3/8/08, Bill Skaggs <weskaggs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > To keep the ball rolling, I thought it might be useful to show a > copy of my current experimental version of a no-image-open > window. Most features should be obvious from the picture, but > a couple of notes: > > 1) The toolbar shows most of the things a user might want to > do with no image open, but not quite all. "Aquire", or "Open as > layers", could be added, or even "Create", which would access > the menu for creating buttons, logos etc. "About" could, and > probably should, be removed. > > 2) I felt like I had to shorten the main menu, because it made the > window too wide. I did this by shifting the categories I use least > into submenus -- "View" into "Image", and "Tools", "Dialogs", and > "Xtns" into a new "Gimp" category. > <snip/> -- Laxminarayan Kamath Ammembal (+91) 9945036093 _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
