Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Laxminarayan Kamath
Does it keep the entire menu inside the screen if the layers dialog is at the right edge of the screen ? -- Laxminarayan Kamath Ammembal (+91) 9945036093 ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 21:47 -0800, Bill Skaggs wrote: One of the minor annoyances of using Gimp is that the Layer Mode menu (and paint mode menu, etc) is unpleasantly long -- for me, it nearly extends from the top to the bottom of the screen. It would actually be very easy to change the

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-15 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Unfortunately now that I have had time to think a bit harder, I understand that there is a fundamental difference in how my initial effort to implement a warp tool works compared to how the IWarp filter does. Basically, when using the IWarp filter, and manipulating the preview in its dialog,

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Bill Skaggs wrote: One of the minor annoyances of using Gimp is that the Layer Mode menu (and paint mode menu, etc) is unpleasantly long -- for me, it nearly extends from the top to the bottom of the screen. It very much depends on particular GTK+ theme in

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Skaggs
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:57 AM, Tor Lillqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately now that I have had time to think a bit harder, I understand that there is a fundamental difference in how my initial effort to implement a warp tool works compared to how the IWarp filter does. Do you

Re: [Gimp-developer] IWarp as a tool

2008-02-15 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Do you really need to do it exactly the way the filter does it? From your description, I don't really understand why your current approach is less valid, or even why it will produce a significantly different result. It does produce a significantly different result. In my current code,

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread peter sikking
Bill wrote: It seems to me that the separators are not that important, because the categories are pretty artificial in the first place, and were really imposed mostly to give the very long list some structure, as far as I can see. But this is something that you should consider.

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Nemes Ioan Sorin
agree with Peter, (part of my job is to improve user interaction UI usability) separators are good, even better are spacers (like in Firetox and Thunderbird [fluid spacers]) also a line OR a background surrounding a group of buttons are good for focusing to a 'grouped set of functions'

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread jEsuSdA 8)
Bill Skaggs wrote: One of the minor annoyances of using Gimp is that the Layer Mode menu (and paint mode menu, etc) is unpleasantly long -- for me, it nearly extends from the top to the bottom of the screen. It would actually be very easy to change the code so that these menus are laid out

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Skaggs
Well, it's clear that the idea is not generating a great deal of enthusiasm. Before dropping it, though, I'd like to take one more shot at clarifying the problem -- I'm attaching a screenshot showing a typical incarnation of the Paint Mode menu, using the Default Gimp theme and Ubuntu's default

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:13 -0800, Bill Skaggs wrote: Well, it's clear that the idea is not generating a great deal of enthusiasm. [... screenshot...] I don't think I have to persuade anybody that this is less than ideal from a usability point of view. The question is, can we do anything

Re: [Gimp-developer] change layout of mode menus?

2008-02-15 Thread Akkana Peck
Liam R E Quin writes: Seems to me that probably most people will use at most a couple of the layer modes in normal use, so maybe putting the top 7 on the menu and having a more modes submenu is a possibility. Eek, please no! Often the best way to use layer modes is to go down the list one by