Iain Dalton wrote: > The toolbar should dock to the screen edge such that the user can > throw the > mouse to the edge and click to select a tool. > > See the answer to question 2 on Tog's "Quiz Designed to Give You > Fitts" > (http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html). nice to see you refer to my then hero and now colleague Bruce Tognazzini. 'Tog on interface' was my first grounding in interaction design, about 17 years ago, and I have not looked back... > Assuming people agree, is this possible without hacking the window > manager? maybe it is simply too early to spend effort on this. GIMP currently ships with a 6-column toolbox, (informally) kept that wide by the tool options. This gives you an edge speed-up for 1 in 6 tools. I am working on the long term UI goal to have GIMP ship with a 2-column toolbox, which on larger screens could be stretched to single-column. this includes reducing the overall number of tools and one of the most challenging interaction design problems of GIMP: what to do with the tool options. once we get there, it pays to discuss the edge speed-up. --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
