Robert Sasu wrote: > I would like to participate to GSoC 2012 and I found the Implement the combined selection tool project interesting. > I've read about the research made by Voralberg students in 2010, as suggested, and I am really interested on making a new and nice UI for some tools. I suggest we do the same as for the 2011 student work: <http://blog.mmiworks.net/2011/07/teaching-interaction-11.html> the work was taken further by my design team in a 3-day design sprint: <http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Warp_tool_specification> in that short time and short spec, the main problems are solved, some very advanced design goals are met, the general design of the tool is done and as a solution it has gelled. with that there are no more surprises what direction the technical design and implementation should take. about the 2010 student work: yes, the integration of same-ish selection tools was exactly my brief. the difference between my class and the design sprint is that in the former there is lot of freedom, and in the sprint there are these advanced design goals. this is because GIMP is not a toy, it is serious software production. also it would be to overwhelming to ask the students to meet the advanced goals. I do not expect things like gestures or pie menus to make it through the design sprint, simply because of higher standards. Last, one bit of risk in this project is the future of the SIOX tool. I heard rumours about a replacement. there needs to be a decision by the GIMP team about that before the design sprint starts. --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
