On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:56:07AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Monday 20 June 2005 02:04, Carol Spears wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 05:11:08PM +0200, Karine Delvare wrote: > >> "Alastair M. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I can only speak for myself, of course, but personally, I end up > >>> unfolding the directory view perhaps 90-95% of the times I used > >>> the dialog. The only time I generally don't need to expand the > >>> directory view is if I'm just saving off an existing image in a > >>> different file format. > > >> I have the opposite experience : I tend to group images of a > >> drawing session / photo manipulations session in one directory, so > >> when I save my first image I unfold the directory view to pick a > >> bookmark and create a subdirectory in it, but from then every new > >> save will only need the folded dialog, which is small and > >> uncluttered, to my liking. > > > is it within your ability to understand that there are still several > > people who have been using gimp since the 1.0 development era and > > expect configurability? > > I don't think Karine was speaking against configurability as such, just > in favour of the default. > > Would a simple "push-pin" toggle control to optionally stick the default > configuration one way or the other be difficult to implement? > that is the issue. a good thing for beginners has been foisted on everyone.
"just blindly type into the selector" is terrible advice for how to use something. especially software. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
