Does it keep the entire menu inside the screen if the layers dialog
is at the right edge of the screen ?
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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
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,
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
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
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,
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.
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'
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
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
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
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
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