[Gimp-developer] Outdated docs: keybindings.txt and cheat_sheet.txt - anyvolunteers?
After Sven replaced the Alt-F shortcut by Ctrl-F to be able to reserve the Alt-... shortcuts for keyboard navigation in the menus (*), I had a look at some old files: docs/cheat_sheet.txt docs/keybindings.txt docs/quick_reference.ps The last time these files were updated was five years ago, or more! Is anybody interested in updating them? The quick reference file requires some knowledge of TeX, but the other files are plain text files that are easy to edit. So if anybody is interested in low hanging fruits... -Raphaël (*) See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106991 ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
[Gimp-developer] Preferences suggestions
Sven asked for some feedback on the Preferences dialog. Here is my take on it. I'm sure I can handle many of the changes, but I haven't looked into the code yet. If you need me to make the changes (once they're approved) let me know. I won't be able to submit much before the 21st cuz I'll be on holiday, however, and assuming I haven't found another job by then. Comments on the Preferences dialog: 0. General comments a. Why is the default font for labels so small? My eyes are old! b. Lists should not include sublists that have only a single item. If you have sublists, there should be at least two entries in that list. Otherwise, merge the sublist into the main list page. c. I really think you need to call the Image Window the Canvas Window. Image is too generic - it's used for thumbnails, layers, etc. d. US English vs UK English spellings: Behavior in Interface page, Behaviour in Image Windows page. e. Lots of tooltips say When set to YES... when referring to toggle buttons or option menus that don't have a YES option. These need to be updated. 1. Page: New Image a. Should it be New Image or New Canvas? Is the canonical name for that window a Canvas? That's what I've been calling it for years (even in my books), but maybe I've been wrong. b. Why isn't Indexed included as a default image type option? c. Why a dpi *AND* a Pixels/inch setting? The bottom set, with the Pixels/inch options menu should be enough. DPI should be part of the text header for this frame. d. Why do we have a maximum image size? Shouldn't GIMP handle any image size? Should this value be set as a percentage (rounded to a power of 2) of installed memory? 2. The Comment page should be integrated into the New Image page as a 2nd page in a notebook. 3. Page: Interface a. We shouldn't use frames with a single element - frames should enclose two or more elements. Dialog behavior and Menus should be merged with the Window Positions frame and retitled Windows and Menus b. Dialog Behavior toggle has tooltip that says When set to YES This should be changed to When enabled Also, per display should be changed to per image window (or per canvas window). 4. Page: Help System a. Remove frames. b. Why aren't Mozilla and Galeon included in the Help Browser list? 5. Tool options should be merged with another page, perhaps the Interface page, until more default options for Tools are provided. 6. Despite having few configurable options, the Input Devices page should stay the way it is. It may have more options - I don't have any input devices available to test that. 7. Page: Image Windows a. Make this page a notebook, with the following pages: 1. Appearance / Canvas padding color 2. Zoom / Resize, Pointer Movement b. Merge Title Status page as a 3rd notebook page in the Image Windows page. c. Title formats should be explained - what do each of f, p, etc. mean? 8. Merge the Display and Monitor pages. They're similar enough and can fit on one page. 9. Page: Environment a. Move Environment to the top of the list. It is more general than the other options (except the Folders) and it has no sublist. It's easier to see that it's a top level item this way as opposed to thinking it's part of the Interface sublists. b. Maybe it's me, but I think the icon for Environment ought to be trees and a sun, not a nerdy IC. c. The tooltip for File-Save is incorrect. It should be updated to match the current options menu text. d. Size of thumbnails Files should probably be Size of thunbnail Files. 10. Page: Folders a. What do the green dots in the Folders page represent? b. Put the tenp dir and swap dir in frames. Title each Location for temporary files and Location of swap files. Change the ... to Select a directory. This will spread this page's contents out a bit. It looks crowded right now. -- Michael J. Hammel | The Graphics Muse | Assassins do it from behind. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.graphics-muse.com ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Preferences suggestions
On 03 Mar 2003 11:45:16 -0600, Michael J. Hammel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comments on the Preferences dialog: And here are my comments on (some of) your comments... I agree with most of your suggestions, so I only quoted the parts on which I had something interesting to say. 1. Page: New Image b. Why isn't Indexed included as a default image type option? Creating a new image in indexed mode would require a default colormap. We could add an option for selecting among the available color palettes, just below the option for selecting the default image type. c. Why a dpi *AND* a Pixels/inch setting? The bottom set, with the Pixels/inch options menu should be enough. DPI should be part of the text header for this frame. Because you want to be able to set the default unit? I prefer millimeters instead of inches. d. Why do we have a maximum image size? Shouldn't GIMP handle any image size? Should this value be set as a percentage (rounded to a power of 2) of installed memory? The label for this option should be changed to Maximum Image Size Before Warning. This is longer, but this is a better description of what it does. I don't think that it is necessary to set it as a percentage of installed memory. 2. The Comment page should be integrated into the New Image page as a 2nd page in a notebook. And in the future, it should be able to set more than the default comment. It should also set the default value for other properties used by EXIF and XMP/IPTC metadata. See also: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56443 (EXIF) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94416 (XMP/IPTC) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61499 (editor) I still have to work on that... 4. Page: Help System b. Why aren't Mozilla and Galeon included in the Help Browser list? This is a FAQ. This gets asked so frequently that we should seriously think about adding a whole paragraph of text in this dialog. Also, Netscape should probably be Netscape-compatible or something like that. The options should also be different for the Windows build. 7. Page: Image Windows c. Title formats should be explained - what do each of f, p, etc. mean? If this option gets its own page/tab, then we could explain this in the page. Otherwise, there should be a prominent link to the help page. 8. Merge the Display and Monitor pages. They're similar enough and can fit on one page. Hmm... No, because they are dealing with different things. If the Display page is merged with something, it should be merged with some of the Image Windowse pages. If this is a notebook, then it would be appropriate to have it as a separate tab in that section. -Raphaël ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Outdated docs: keybindings.txt andcheat_sheet.txt - any volunteers?
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:43:44 +0100 Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After Sven replaced the Alt-F shortcut by Ctrl-F to be able to reserve the Alt-... shortcuts for keyboard navigation in the menus (*), I had a look at some old files: docs/cheat_sheet.txt docs/keybindings.txt docs/quick_reference.ps Is the tex file still around for quick_reference? Otherwise I am prepared to start again from scratch. Owen ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Outdated docs: keybindings.txt andcheat_sheet.txt - any volunteers?
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Owen wrote: On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:43:44 +0100 Raphaël Quinet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After Sven replaced the Alt-F shortcut by Ctrl-F to be able to reserve the Alt-... shortcuts for keyboard navigation in the menus (*), I had a look at some old files: docs/cheat_sheet.txt docs/keybindings.txt docs/quick_reference.ps Is the tex file still around for quick_reference? Otherwise I am prepared to start again from scratch. It is in a tarball named quick_reference.tar.gz in cvs. Marco ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
Re: [Gimp-developer] Preferences suggestions
mån 2003-03-03 klockan 19.57 skrev Raphaël Quinet: c. Why a dpi *AND* a Pixels/inch setting? The bottom set, with the Pixels/inch options menu should be enough. DPI should be part of the text header for this frame. Because you want to be able to set the default unit? I prefer millimeters instead of inches. The default here (US/metric) should probably be a function of the locale, as that information is already available in the locale. Reported now as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107497. Christian ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
