Hi Peter, there are a couple of things that are waiting for input from the UI team. Things that we would like to sort out for GIMP 2.6. It would be nice if we could get some advice from you and your team. I made a list of the things that in my opinion are most important right now. The order is arbitrary:
Merge toolbox and image menus It would be very nice if we could get this done for 2.6. It would be a major user-visible change and as such it would give a clear sign that GIMP is moving. What's needed here is a mockup that shows how GIMP should look like with no image window open. And a specification that tells us what should happen when the first image is opened, what happens for the second image, what happens when the last image is closed. Text boxes This is described in bug #122707 and Bill has a patch for the text tool that makes it use the rectangle tool interface similar to the Rectangular Selection and Crop tools. It would be nice to have a specification that defines how the text tool should behave. Keyboard Shortcut dialog This has come up in bug #507257. We already made the Keyboard Shortcut editor accessible from the Edit menu. So it is not any longer necessary to access it from the Preferences dialog. IMO this should be taken further by moving more Keyboard related stuff from the Preferences dialog to the Keyboard Shortcut dialog. Some comments on the bug report would be helpful. Remove the "add/remove alpha channel" option for layers This is described in bug #486902. Not sure if it is a good idea or not. Comments from the UI team would be very much appreciated. Show current aspect ratio in Crop tool As described in bug #508183, this is a regression from GIMP 2.2 and it would be nice to sort this out for GIMP 2.6. Make it easier to select and move areas As described in bug #505761, the new rectangular/ellipse selection tools get in the way of the workflow of some users. Bug #349340 is somewhat related to this. It would be nice if the solutions outlined in these bug reports could be evaluated by the UI team. I hope that you and your team can help us to sort out these issues. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
