Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-09-02 Thread Sven Neumann
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:22 +0200, yahvuu wrote: after some more thinking, here's my take for 2.8: File-New... File-Acquire-Scan from Device xy... Scan from Device yz... Nice extra: if there's only one device connected, the whole 'File-Acquire' submenu can be

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-27 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 08/25/2010 08:55 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:39 -0300, Luiz Felipe Moraes Pereira wrote: I agree with you, also the other stuff related to creation(button, etc) should go somewhere else in gimp. somewhere else is not a very intuitive place either. We've had a longer

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-27 Thread yahvuu
On 27.08.2010 08:47, Martin Nordholts wrote: * We can remove File-Create altogether in GIMP 3.0. IMO none of the things there fits our product vision. The ones that do should be under Filter and not create a new image For 3.0, i think we also can dispose 'New from Clipboard' and move

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-27 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 08/27/2010 04:08 PM, yahvuu wrote: On 27.08.2010 08:47, Martin Nordholts wrote: * We can remove File-Create altogether in GIMP 3.0. IMO none of the things there fits our product vision. The ones that do should be under Filter and not create a new image For 3.0, i think we also can dispose

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-26 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 20:55 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: [...] . So unless someone comes up with a very good idea this time, things will stay as they are. I complained when we had two File-New menu items, and it did get changed, but really I still think there should only be one menu. The

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-26 Thread Christopher Curtis
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: somewhere else is not a very intuitive place either. We've had a longer discussion when these items were moved to File-Create and no one came up with a better solution. I find the 'Create' label non-obvious as well. It makes

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-26 Thread Jason Simanek
I personally think File Import Scan or File Import from Device Scanner would make the most sense. 'Acquire' isn't really a common word that I hear being used in association with images, graphics, typesetting, etc. Not in the U.S.A. anyway (for the U.S. perspective on word choice, if anyone

[Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-25 Thread Jim Michaels
newbies who are using GIMP are always asking where is the scanner support. why? because they can't find it. File-Create is not intuitive, nor does it imply anything about scanners. File-Acquire would be more appropriate. maybe even File-Scanners if you want to be obvious (which is even

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-25 Thread Luiz Felipe Moraes Pereira
I agree with you, also the other stuff related to creation(button, etc) should go somewhere else in gimp. I too didnĀ“t even know gimp had scanner support ___ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-25 Thread Sven Neumann
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 13:39 -0300, Luiz Felipe Moraes Pereira wrote: I agree with you, also the other stuff related to creation(button, etc) should go somewhere else in gimp. somewhere else is not a very intuitive place either. We've had a longer discussion when these items were moved to

Re: [Gimp-developer] scanner support should be File-Acquire

2010-08-25 Thread Sven Neumann
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 23:23 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote: newbies who are using GIMP are always asking where is the scanner support. why? because they can't find it. Most probably they ask this because you need to install a third-party plug-in in order to have scanner access from within GIMP.