Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-15 Thread Lee Willis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raphael Quinet) writes: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That being said, I also like the columns-spinbutton idea, as long as > the minimum is 1 column. I agree with the other parts of your > message, and with your suggestion to move the Meas

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-13 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:05:42 -0500 (EST), Glyph Lefkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >It seems like this is really the only reasonable option -- I think >that there should be a 'menu' spot in the tools, like the top-left >menu in the image windows, since the toolbar is frequently too thin >for th

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-11 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Sven Neumann wrote: > Alternatively we can of course merge all menus into one GIMP menu... It seems like this is really the only reasonable option -- I think that there should be a 'menu' spot in the tools, like the top-left menu in the image windows, since the toolbar is f

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-11 Thread Arcterex
> Loosing access to a menu may be acceptable to you, but I think it is > in no way acceptable for a program that wants to reach a larger audience. > I see the bugreports coming in daily. Additionally I don't know how the > color-selector should fit into a one-column layout. > In other word: unacc

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-11 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, > I did not ignore the menu problem. If the "Help" bug is fixed (it is > a one-line change in app/menu.c to make it last-from-left), then only > the "File" menu is visible. But when I work with very large images, I > do not need the "Xtns" menu at all, so I can live without it until I > fin

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-11 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your list looked interesting. But, you seem to ignore the menu problem. > IMHO 2 columns is the absolute minimum since even then get problems with > the Help menu. If we'd allow less than 2 columns, not even Xtns will be > accesible

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu (again)

2000-02-11 Thread Arcterex
> > Just to clarify, in my prev msg when refering to the selectors I was > > refering to the pattern/gradient/brush one > > ... which can be turned off via a preferences option already, Bah... must have slipped in w/o me being consulted :) Thanks for the pointer. alan... in desparate need of

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-11 Thread Sven Neumann
> Sorry, but I disagree. IMHO, there are more than two useful layouts. > Maybe I am sick or strange or something, but actually I use different > layouts for the toolbox on different computers, depending mostly on > the screen size and window manager used. That's why I actually send this mail at

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-11 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd vote for the following solution: Completely get rid of the interactive > resizing (since it obviously can't be fixed to work correctly) and offer > two alternative layouts (as described above) which are switchable from the > pref

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-11 Thread Paul Melis
Hi, the discussion about the placing of the Help menu and shortening some of the names in the toolbox menubar made me wonder: I have a script that registers itself under "/MyScripts" and this creates a new menu-item "MyScripts" on the RIGHT side of the Help menu. Is this a small glitch (because

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu (again)

2000-02-11 Thread Sven Neumann
> Just to clarify, in my prev msg when refering to the selectors I was > refering to the pattern/gradient/brush one ... which can be turned off via a preferences option already, Salut, Sven

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-10 Thread Jon Winters
What about how the netscape tool thingie works when it is detached from the browser window? Right mouse clicking on it gets a small menu: Vertical, Horizontal, etc. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ OpenVerse http://www.openverse.org/

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-10 Thread Tom Rathborne
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:51:20PM -0600, Jon Winters wrote: > What about how the netscape tool thingie works when it is detached > from the browser window? > > Right mouse clicking on it gets a small menu: Vertical, Horizontal, > etc. Yes! When you resize the netscape toolbar window, it is jus

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu (again)

2000-02-10 Thread Arcterex
Just to clarify, in my prev msg when refering to the selectors I was refering to the pattern/gradient/brush one, not the [fore|back]ground color one :) Regards, alan -- Arcterex -=|=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=|=- http://arcterex.ufies.org '... I was worried they were going to say "you don't have eno

Re: Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-10 Thread Arcterex
> On a related subject, I want to express that I'm not very content with the > latest changes to the toolbox since it is now impossible to have a > horizontal toolbox with the colorselectors at the right side. > The default setup we shipped with until now was never intended to be a > solution, s

Toolbox layout and Help menu

2000-02-10 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Marc wrote: > So... I am not against this change, but I also see no reason to do it, > especially since that makes gimp different to other apps, and I think > there should be a very good reason for this. Since all GNOME apps have the help menu rightmost but not seperated from the other menu