"The problem is that people will move stuff around, and then make very
invalid assumptions about order of application. This will confuse people to
a very high degree, and likely generate a lot of avoidable questions about
why moving modules around doesn't change the image."
-If this is the main problem, then make it such that every time you shift
the position of a module, there is a message that tells you that shifting
the module will not change the order of application of the effects, and
hence will not change the look of the image. What I understood in your
previous reply to me was that it was more of a problem of troubleshooting,
and not about users having questions about why their images look the same
after shifting modules around.
"Which is more or less why the favorites category exists, which you can
customize."
-You can only choose what modules to put there, you cannot rearrange them.
What Marie-Noelle and I have been talking about is not being able to find
the modules we want to, because of the way they are arranged. The first
thing I think of when I want to edit an image, for instance, is white
balance and exposure, not vignetting. If I chuck exposure and vignetting
and some other modules into the favourites tab, the first thing I see is
vignetting - which is not what people do the first thing they open up an
image.
Perhaps a compromise can be made where users can rearrange modules in the
favourites tab, but cannot do so in the other tabs. The favourites tab is
meant to suit individual workflow, and that's what it should achieve. I'm
not expecting this in the next version since you guys are focusing on
masks, but I hope to see something like that in future releases. For other
tabs, they can remain with fixed positions of the modules to give users an
insight on how stuff works.
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