To keep the ball rolling, I thought it might be useful to show a copy of my current experimental version of a no-image-open window. Most features should be obvious from the picture, but a couple of notes:
1) The toolbar shows most of the things a user might want to do with no image open, but not quite all. "Aquire", or "Open as layers", could be added, or even "Create", which would access the menu for creating buttons, logos etc. "About" could, and probably should, be removed. 2) I felt like I had to shorten the main menu, because it made the window too wide. I did this by shifting the categories I use least into submenus -- "View" into "Image", and "Tools", "Dialogs", and "Xtns" into a new "Gimp" category. 3) The backdrop is handled like the splash screen -- the user can replace it with a different one, and the no-image-open window shapes itself to match the specified image. Yes, it's ugly: sorry, I'm not an artist. 4) The tips can be disabled. 5) The theme used for the screenshot is Clearlooks. The icons, and general appearance of the toolbar, would change if a different theme was used. -- Bill
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