On 09 Apr 2002 15:42:31 +0200, "Sven Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - The zoom GUI might be copied from PS: > --------------- > | | > | | > | Preview | > | | > --------------- > + 100% -
I like this GUI. I also like the fact that in PS (or is it in PSP?), the mouse pointer changes to a hand as soon as you move over the preview area so that the user knows that the image can be panned simply by clicking and dragging with the left mouse button. In our case, the cursor could be changed to the same crossed arrows as for the Move tool. Assigning this feature to the left mouse button implies that the default cursor can be changed (the feature would be "hidden" if another mouse button was used). Also, this preview widget is very nice because it is compact: there is no need for scrollbars because there is a visible hint (the cursor) indicating that the preview can be moved. I am not sure that I like the idea of making the zoom ratio editable (spinbutton) because that would waste some space on the screen. Most dialogs in the GIMP are already much too large. > - A split mode would be handy: > ------------------- > | | | > | Before | | > | | After | > | | | > ------------------- > Alternative setups like top/bottom, diagonal split have been > suggested. Difficult to get this integrated into the GUI w/o > cluttering it with buttons. Could be in a right-click menu, but > it would probably not be found there. This could be nice, but I am not sure that it would be worth the effort (and again, the wasted space). How many plug-ins would really benefit from such a preview? In most cases, looking at the window containing the original image should be sufficient (assuming that the preview is located in one corner of the plug-in dialog, so that it is easy to put one window over the other one and compare their contents). I am not really against it, but I think that it should not be enabled by default and I would like some examples of plug-ins for which this feature could be useful. > - Make docks scrollable. Yuck! > - Make layers resizable/scalable in by adding handlers to the layer > boundaries. I think that the risks of hitting the resize handles by mistake and resizing the layers when you do not want to are higher than the benefits. If you frequently start selections or gradients or drawing lines from the corners of the image, you would be quickly annoyed by this feature. > - Effect layers. Hasn't been discussed much, probably not for 1.4. I had some thoughts about that, but nothing concrete yet. Basically, I was thinking about layers that could contain the results of the execution of a plug-in (or any PDB function, such as color correction or maybe some transforms). Every time the "source" layer is changed, the PDB function would be invoked to re-create the "effect" layer. The name of the PDB function and its arguments would need to be attached to the "effect" layer. It would be nice to have a way to combine that with "layer groups" so that one could specify that the effect layer contains an effect that should be applied to a group of layers instead of a single layer (the layers could be merged in the cache for the effect layer before calling the PDB to generate the results). Anyway, these thoughts are not very well structured yet, so this will be for later unless someone else has lots of good ideas and can implement that quickly... > - Allow to rotate the canvas just as one rotates a sheet of paper > when drawing to ease the use of graphic tablets. This was suggested last year by Roy Katz in comp.graphics.apps.gimp. Some programs such as Corel Painter offer this feature. There is already a bug report about that in Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55367 -Raphaël _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
