Re: The Gimp: New Generation
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 07:20:06PM +0100, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone volunteers to write the code to generate the SGML out of the PDB, I don't think it's too late to add the necessary comment blocks to the rest of the libgimp code. Unless yosh wants to integrate this into pdbgen (I won't), feel free to assign this to me... -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |
Re: The Gimp: New Generation
Marc Lehmann spontaneously blurts out: The solution to too large menus is a better way to display them, not demanding that I use the same font as you. Exactly! Scaling is one of the the biggest problems with modern (especially Open Source) GUI design. Stuff gets written to accommodate the author's immediate needs and what happens when the data (in this case plugins) explodes in number. EVERY gui developer (casual or not) should be required to read Tufte's design books before being allowed to code. Perhaps this is something that we should talk about at LWE. -Dean Johnson Tool Hooligan Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880 "I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
Re: The Gimp: New Generation
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:27:16 -0600 (CST), Dean Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: EVERY gui developer (casual or not) should be required to read Tufte's design books before being allowed to code. Heh. Send me copies and I'll gladly read them. :) Kelly
Re: The Gimp: New Generation
Kelly Lynn Martin spontaneously blurts out: On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:27:16 -0600 (CST), Dean Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: EVERY gui developer (casual or not) should be required to read Tufte's design books before being allowed to code. Heh. Send me copies and I'll gladly read them. :) For those of you who aren't familiar with Tufte's books: "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 096139210X "Envisioning Information" by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0961392118 They are the Knuth-esque books for user interface stuff, not necessarily computer stuff either. On amazon, they refer to it as "The Strunk White of visual design". -Dean Johnson Tool Hooligan Cluster Admin Tools Jessie Project Silicon Graphics Inc.Eagan,MN (651) 683-5880 "I am Dyslexic of Borg, Your Ass will be Laminated"-- unknown
Re: The Gimp: New Generation
Does translation of filter help tips make any sense ? Or would it be like with internal function help tips and they are going to be excluded ? (1.1.6-1.1.10). I'm not really sure. It surely creates lots of work for the translators and I don't know if it is worth it. If we could agree on this subject, I would volunteer to remove the marks from all help-strings in the plugins PDB registration functions. Most of plugins place ":" in different positions "bla bla:" "bla bla: " "bla bla :" "bla bla : " etc. Is it possible to choose one (more likely the first one) and post it somewhere from where people could read it and change their sources. This is handled much better after Mitch overworked most plug-ins UI once again. If you still find places that should be changed, please provide a patch. Continue with the plugins: all general options, main options ,general preferencies etc change them all to "options" and unify. Ditto. Most plugins use the term "Parameter Settings" now. Necessary Reconstruction of Menu Image/Tools It's too big (to be honest I really don't have an idea how to do it) If it fits in 640x480 it's ok but if not-please rebuild. Well, I don't know of anyone using it frequently. Only probably to look up or change keybindings, so I guess we can easily add another level of submenus in here. A menu that doesn't fit into 640x480 is indeed a bug. Salut, Sven
Re: The Gimp: New Generation
On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:59:23 +0100, Sven Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is handled much better after Mitch overworked most plug-ins UI once again. If you still find places that should be changed, please provide a patch. If Mitch has gone to the effort to normalize existing plug-ins, I think would be nice of him to write up exactly what standards he followed so we can have a nice document on plug-in UI standards. :) Kelly
