On Saturday 16 February 2002 00:06, Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero
wrote:
> Hi:
>
> This is the doc I have now. Any comments? Suggestions? Fixes?
Well done! I still have some comments though, see below.
<snipped lots of stuff I think atm is fine>
> Xtns>
> Script-Fu>
> Tools>
> Default Colors D
> Swap Colors X
> ---
> Color Picker O
> Magnify Shift+M
> Measure
> Paint>
...
> Selection>
...
> Text T
> Transform>
> Move M
> Crop and Resize Shift+C
> Transform Shift+T
> Flip Shift+F
> Image>
> Transform>
> Rotate 90 degrees
> Rotate 180 degrees
> Rotate 270 degrees
> ---
> Autocrop
> Guillotine
> Layers>
> Transform>
> Rotate 90 degrees
> Rotate 180 degrees
> Rotate 270 degrees
> ---
> Offset... Shift+Ctrl+O
> Zealous Crop
> Filters>
> Show Last Filter Ctrl+F
> Repeat Last Ctrl+R
> ---
> [Lots of things here]
I think we need to think very hard about Plug-ins, Filters, Script-Fu, and
Tools.
I'd like to define a Tool as something that changes the image depending on
the coordinates sent by the pointer device. This means that Flip and
Transform (which always work on the whole image or the whole selection)
aren't tools at all. Things like the Image>->Color->* functions, which seem
to be implemented as Tools in 1.2, aren't tools either.
I'm not quite sure what to do with the remaining functions. I don't think the
user should be able to see the difference between Plug-ins, Script-Fu
scripts, and Perl scripts in the interface. That means that the
Xtns->Script-Fu menu entry should go. Throwing them all in one big menu under
Filters may be overkill though. I'm open to suggestions for splitting this up
(in a way that is based on the function of the plugins) into smaller more
manageable parts.
Thirdly, we now have three different Transform options. I know that Unix
gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot, but with this you can't
see the trees for the forest. Why not just a single transform tool, and an
option there to do the whole image or just the current layer? Or better even,
allow the selection of multiple layers in the layers dialog box, so that you
can have finer-grained control over what you are changing and what not.
Lastly, I think we should look at the names of the functions in relation to
their locations in the menu. In GIMP 1.2, there is a function
Image>->Filters->Color->Map to Gradient..., which is rather confusing. Thing
is, there's also an Image>->Filters->Map submenu, and I always end up looking
for Map to Gradient in the Map submenu. Function-wise I think this is a
logical way to organise things, but linguistically it's confusing.
Well, that's it for now.
Lourens
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