On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 6:32 PM, Elle Stone wrote: > Hi All, > > After years of using GIMP in Multiple Window Mode, I'm thinking about > switching to Single Window Mode - the "sticking point" is not enough > vertical space in Single Window Mode.
Hi Elle, I have to admit I understood most of your email as "let's cram it all until UI elements are indistinguishable from each other" :) > 1. A good quarter-inch of empty space above the tool icons - could this > space be removed? Or you can add (toolbox-wilber no) to gimprc. > 2. I like having the "Foreground & background colors" dialog be in the tool > box, but look at all the wasted horizontal space. The space looks wasted, because you created such a wide group of dockable dialogs :) > If this icon could be made the same height as all the tool icons, and also > simply float in line with > the other tool icons, then vertical space could be saved. At 16x16, the FG/BG widget will most likely be not very usable. While tools can be switched via shortcuts, the widget is a mouse pointer / tablet stylus target. > 3. I think the extra space around the Tool Options sliders is currently > determined by the system font size. Vertical padding between sliders is tiny! Sliders are just a few pixels apart. An extra 1px is not the problem here, the height of the sliders is. > 4. Same as above: The opacity slider has too much vertical padding. Same as above :) > 5. It seems to me that a tiny bit of extra vertical space could be saved by > decreasing the vertical padding surrounding the icons at the bottom of the > various Toolbox panels. Not much though. > 6. This is the biggie, literally. It would be nice to have the option to not > have the image window tabs at all. But if having these tabs is a > requirement, at least make the tab height and tab icons as small as > possible. Is there a place in Preferences that controls this icon size? It's > huge! Where in the code is the tab/icon size set? Um, huge? It's more like regular :) And it depends on the size ratio of the first image you opened, it could be tiny. Either way, there recently was a discussion to introduce filenames for tab captions as an alternative to previews. I hope that's going to happen. And yes, I agree that smaller previews could be introduced too. > 7. Same as 5 - it seems like maybe a little less vertical padding could be > used here, though of course there is the option to not show the task bar at > all. Frankly, I'm surprised that you keep scrollbars in the image window around. They account for a lot more screen space than 7. Unless you an me understand padding differently, of course. Moreover, you could shave just a little more pixels by switching to text captions instead of icon captions for dockable dialogs. In general, I completely agree that things could be tidier, I just don't think vertical padding between elements is our main enemy here :) Alex _______________________________________________ gimp-gui-list mailing list gimp-gui-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list
