[Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread Philip Ganchev
Hi. I have a suggestion for a new and simple way to interact with GIMP. A major difficulty in using GIMP, in my experience, is that the menus are too many and too deep. To invoke an action on an image, or to open a dialog box, the user spends a lot of time and concentration navigating the

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread David Gowers
On 10/12/06, Philip Ganchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi.I have a suggestion for a new and simple way to interact with GIMP.A major difficulty in using GIMP, in my experience, is that the menusare too many and too deep.To invoke an action on an image, or to open a dialog box, the user spends a lot

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread Jakub Steiner
Hi Phillip, The two major use cases when this would be a more efficient interface is for us GIMPers who already know what functionality they want and don't need to go three levels deep, but also for novice users for who it will perhaps be easier to search for 'replace color' instead of browsing

[Gimp-developer] LGM 2007 - Needs of the GIMP team

2006-10-12 Thread Louis Desjardins
Hello to all, As you might already know, LGM 2007 will be held in Montreal, Canada, May 4-5-6 2007. As I am getting the sponsors in for this event, I need to know (or at least have a fair idea) of how many people from the GIMP's devel team will be travelling to Montreal and in the need of

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread Philip Ganchev
On 10/12/06, Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 01:41:50AM -0400, Philip Ganchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example. if the user types size, he sees the options Scale image - resize the image, Set canvas size, and Print size. Selecting the first option invokes

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread Philip Ganchev
On 10/12/06, David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/12/06, Philip Ganchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] it doesn't map directly to normal menus. For example, there are layer-transform menus and image-transform menus, both of which contain identically-named entries. It's more like

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread Philip Ganchev
On 10/12/06, Jakub Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Phillip, The two major use cases when this would be a more efficient interface is for us GIMPers who already know what functionality they want and don't need to go three levels deep, but also for novice users for who it will perhaps be

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread David Gowers
On 10/13/06, Philip Ganchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/12/06, David Gowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/12/06, Philip Ganchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:[...] it doesn't map directly to normal menus. For example, there are layer-transform menus and image-transform menus, both of which contain

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread David Gowers
On 10/13/06, Philip Ganchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This can be avoided if the order of commands is predefined.Newcommands would have the least priority, unless they are expliciltymoved relative to others.For example if I add a new command rotatecolors and query for rotate, it would appear after

Re: [Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

2006-10-12 Thread Michael Schumacher
Philip Ganchev wrote: On 10/12/06, Jakub Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The two major use cases when this would be a more efficient interface is for us GIMPers who already know what functionality they want and don't need to go three levels deep, but also for novice users for who it will