[Gimp-developer] Re: we need more documentation

[William Skaggs]

Sven wrote:

 - (re)configuring keyboard shortcuts (using Dynamic Shortcuts, the
   new Shortcut Editor or simply by editing the menurc

 - the new file-chooser dialogs and how to use them best (explain
   keybindings and the use of bookmarks)

 - copy and paste between GIMP and other apps (what works, what doesn't)

 - drag and drop (inside GIMP and to and from other apps)

 - the new input controllers and how to use them
o configuring the mouse wheel
o configuring the cursor keys
o fancy USB input devices
o using MIDI equipment as GIMP input devices

 - setting up a tablet for use in GIMP

 - a collection of tips and tricks focusing on stuff that's new in 2.2

 - nifty things you can tweak in the Preferences dialog and in gimprc

 - customizing the GIMP user interface

 - customizing the splash image

 - batch processing images

Unfortunately I don't understand most of these things myself in a detailed
enough way to write about them (except drag and drop, which works on everything
I have tried it on, and the file chooser, which I don't like to write about
because I think the best advice is to avoid it and use drag-and-drop from 
some sort of browser).  But if anybody cares to provide any *specific*
facts about these things that would be useful for users to know, I'll
undertake to get them into the User Manual (in English, of course).  I
don't need brilliant prose -- sketchy notes are fine, as long as I can
understand them.  

In any case I'll write something about the File Chooser.  I understand
bookmarks, Ctrl-L, and how to use the file type list.  If there are
more features that should be explained, please let me know about them.

(We actually do a pretty good job of explaining most things in 
Preferences, I think.)

Best,
  -- Bill




 

 
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: we need more documentation

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

William Skaggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 In any case I'll write something about the File Chooser.  I understand
 bookmarks, Ctrl-L, and how to use the file type list.  If there are
 more features that should be explained, please let me know about them.

GTK+ 2.6 (and some hacked versions of GTK+ 2.4 such as the ones that
Debian Sid and RedHat are shipping) support typeahead in the
file-chooser which allows for some pretty nice keyboard navigation.
This makes the Ctrl-L unneeded for a lot of cases.

Mitch and me also agreed that we would like to do something about
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162385 and even get that
change into the stable branch. The fact that the file-chooser in GIMP
doesn't remember the last used folder in GIMP 2.2 was probably a wrong
decision.

 (We actually do a pretty good job of explaining most things in
 Preferences, I think.)

I am sorry if I mentioned some things in my list that are already
handled well in the user manual. I haven't found the time to actually
read it and my mail was just a collection of things that came to mind
as potentially interesting for our users. I didn't mean to say that
our docs suck (they don't!). I was just afraid that there are a number
of things in 2.2 that are too well hidden. It would be a shame if
features like the MIDI input controller support would remain an
experiment on Mitch's and Simon's laptops simply because there's no
document explaining how to setup this stuff.


Sven
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