I haven't seen anything in a while about the menu reorganization
which was proposed a while back.
One thing I'd like to see is getting script-fu and python-fu items
out of separate menus and integrating them into the regular menus,
so users don't have to know what language something was written in
to find it.
With that in mind, I've started from the current Image menu reorg
page http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/ImageMenu and made a few changes:
- Reformatted a bit, in plaintext. The stuff on the wiki is html
but it's really inconsistent, has paragraph tags inside list
items, and closes lists at the wrong place, so it doesn't show
the right hierarchy and is impossible to copypaste properly.
- Moved script-fu items into the main menu and got rid of the
Script-Fu menu.
- Combined Animation and Animators: it seemed confusing to have
both.
- Put the Alchemy scripts under Artistic. They're not really
Artistic but they do vaguely similar things.
- Distributed the few items in the Python-Fu menu to places that
seemed vaguely reasonable.
I ended up with 2 more items under Filters than are there now.
Admittedly that's still a lot; some of these could be combined,
but since it's only two more items and I was trying to change as
little as possible, I didn't try.
I only looked briefly at Xtns. Really, I think that menu is fine
except that again I'd get rid of the language menus, and put the
script-fu stuff under Render. That seemed so simple that I didn't
bother to write that up as a proposal.
So here's my proposal. Does it look reasonable? I tried to compare
it both to the existing menus in 2.2.6 (haven't compared with CVS
yet) and to the proposal on the wiki, but things got confused with
the re-editing I needed to do so I might have missed something.
I'm willing to do some work to make this happen, if people agree
that it should happen and if it's not too late to get it in for 2.4.
I think most of the work involves tweaking script-fu and python-fu
registration routines. Is there documentation that would need to be
updated? The menu page on the gimp manual doesn't seem to mention
script-fu or python-fu menus at all.
This seems to be covered under bugs 116145 (image menus) and 145507 (Xtns).
The latter has a patch from Carol which might be slightly stale now,
but also makes reference to bug 158980, to make a logo browser which
would move the logos out of Xtns. That's a great idea, but until it
happens, moving the scripts is probably still reasonable.
Thoughts?
...Akkana
Image Menu
File
* New
* Open
* Open as Layer
* Open Location
* Open Recent
o (list)
---
* Save
* Save as...
* Save a Copy...
* Save as Template...
* Revert...
---
* Mail Image...
* Print...
---
* Close
* Quit
Edit
* Undo
* Redo
* Undo History
---
* Cut
* Copy
* Copy Visible
* Paste
* Paste Into
* Paste as New
* Buffer
o Cut Named
o Copy Named
o Paste Named
---
* Clear
* Fill with FG Color
* Fill with BG Color
* Fill with Pattern
* Stroke Selection
* Stroke Path
Select
* All
* None
* Invert
* Float
* By Color
* From Path
* Selection Editor
---
* Feather...
* Sharpen
* Shrink...
* Grow...
* Border...
* Rounded Rectangle...
---
* Toggle Quick Mask
* Save to Channel
* To Path
View
* New View
* Dot for Dot
* Zoom (XX%)
o Zoom Out
o Zoom In
o Fit Image in Window
o Fit Image to Window
---
o 16: 1 (1600%)
o 8:1 (800%)
o 4:1 (400%)
o 2:1 (200%)
o 1:1 (100%)
o 1:2 (50%)
o 1:4 (25%)
o 1:8 (12.5%)
o 1:16 (6.25%)
---
o Other...
* Shrink Wrap
* Fullscreen
---
* Info Window
* Navigation Window
* Display Filters...
---
* Show Selection
* Show Layer Boundary
* Show Guides
* Show Grid
* Show Sample Points
* Snap to Guides
* Snap to Grid
* Snap to Canvas Edges
* Snap to Active Path
* Padding Color
o From Theme
o Light Check Color
o Dark Check Color
o Select Custom Color
o As in Preferences
* Show Menubar
* Show Rulers
* Show Scrollbars
* Show Statusbar
Image
* Duplicate
* Mode
o RGB
o Grayscale
o Indexed
* Compose
* Decompose
* Recompose
* Transform
o Flip Horizontally
o Flip Vertically
o Rotate 90 degrees CW
o Rotate 90 degrees CCW
o Rotate 180 degrees
o Guillotine
* Canvas Size
* Fit Canvas to Layers
* Print Size
* Scale Image
* Crop Image
*
