On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 14:13 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > peter sikking wrote: > > well, I am thinking about why docks get organised in rows of tabs, > > together, > > and why in different rows, paralleling. and then I _can_ see that it > > makes > > sense for some users to have (like in your shot) layers+channels+paths > > +undo > > in text for calmness and brushes+patterns+gradients in icon for > > briefness and > > the direct representation of the current selection. > > Ok, I understand how you think now. But we don't need to have > per-tab-row settings to solve this, maybe we could have an "if dock has > status, show icon, else show text" Tab Style. People can then still > group dockables that has status to show. > > > I would hate to see it buried in the preferences. > > Me too I don't see the point here, and how this "mess" couldn't be fixed by having a default-tab-style prefs option (for newly created dockables), and then enable the user to do whatever she likes. I myself always had a hard time finding some *specific* dockables in the beginning after we switched to docks, so I had some rarely- used ones set to "icon and text" and once I learned them, i reduced that to "icon". There is IMHO no harm in allowing this. ciao, --mitch _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
