On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM, hOSHI wrote: >> Which is also usually considered as bad practice. Sorry :) >> > > considered by whom? > in a professional tool there need to be some settings. In my long-time observation people who express their opinion in the lines of "fine with me as long as you make it optional" and get what they ask for end up with ultimately cluttered UIs. A tool should work out of box and help getting the work done right away. When people rely on customization instead, they *usually* create interfaces that require customization *before* you actually can start doing anything. Can you still recall the mess called "This is the first time you run GIMP, so go make yourself a pint of coffee, sit back and go through this long and stupid wizard"? This is why I say that customization is overrated. What I suggest you is to look really well at your proposal: it basically boils down to making a good deal of proposed functionality not obvious. And while having side-by-side views definitely has a place in workflow of an art-director or a collage designer, hiding correspondent prefs would be a nightmare. Alexandre _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
