Hi, Nathan Carl Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > PS: See http://sven.gimp.org/gimp-new-image-dialog.png for an almost > > HIG compliant file-new dialog. This is a screenshot from the HEAD > > branch. > > Looks fantastic! I really like the "hideaway" Image Comment section. > > Here are just a few minor suggestions that I think would improve the > dialog: > > * The "extra title bar" seems to take up a lot more space than it needs. This dialog is a GimpTemplateEditor packed into a GimpViewableDialog. It's GimpViewableDialog that creates the title and the extra space is in other GimpViewableDialogs used to display the name of the viewable (which could for example be an image or a layer). We could of course change GimpViewableDialog to show a smaller title when no name is set but I think consistency makes more sense here. Not sure though, what do others think? > * Center "Create a New Image" vertically (perhaps horizontally as well) This also needs to be reviewed with respect to other dialogs using the same viewable-dialog widget. > * Put the size in bytes either flushed right to or directly under the > "Image Size" label. Flushed right will probably look better. I am afraid the HIG disagrees with this. But perhaps it needs to be seen on a mockup. I think the memory size is rather well placed, but let's see how this would look like. > * Move the portrait/landscape controls to the right of the template > dropdown. Grey them out when no template is selected. But they also make sense when no template is selected and allow you to easily flip width and height. Why bind them to the template selection? > * Merge the two Width and Height entries, or make the second one > hideaway. If you make the second one hideaway, make the top one have a > dropdown units menu, so that you don't have to use the hideaway to > specify image size in units other than pixel. > * Consider making Resolution hideaway as well. > * Resolution should have its own outdent, just like Image Size does. IMHO resolution and the second size group belong together. I could imagine having "Pixel Size" at the top and "Print Size" below. The "Print Size" group would contain size and resolution. > * The units dropdowns should be centered vertically between the two entry > boxes to which they apply. (It would be better if they were aligned > horizontally as well, but the presence of the link control in the > resolution area makes that impractical.) /me shudders > * Consider putting a GtkVSeparator between the "Image Type" and "Fill > Type" combo box lists. The idea was to make the dialog HIG compliant. The HIG clearly suggests not to use any separators and I agree that spacing is a better choice since it adds less visual noise. I like the idea of making more use of GtkExpander in our dialogs. As you suggested, we could hide more controls in this dialog (and others). However for this to be really convenient, the dialog would have to remember the expanded/collapsed state of the frames. Everything expect the most important settings could be collapsed by default. That would make GIMP much more accessible to newbies. The default state of the dialog could even be dependant on a level of user expertise that can be choosen. GIMP for newbies would by default only show the simple things while GIMP for experts would always come up with the full dialog expanded. While the user explores the GIMP world, she can expand more of the dialogs. Whenever a frame is left expanded, GIMP should remember that and the dialog come up like this the next time. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
