I'm not sure where's the best place to post this - should this be in the developer's list? I'm not a developer so I decided to put it here hoping one of the Developers see it anyway. I didn't want to open a feature enhancement for each of these.
So, after checking out Gimp 2.3.4 I have to say I'm very impressed. The window behavior has advanced tremendously, I like the fact that transient dialogs are transient to their image window and keep above them, while still being non-modal so other images can be accessed. The new colors dialog is cool, and some filters have been renamed and moved to other menus making things easier to find. Still, I'd like to suggest more appropriate names. Select-->distort: Was "distress selection". The new name implies a sort of perspective distort but actually creates a sort of "wavy" selection. I suggest this be renamed to "roughen selection" (as it does to a selection the same thing "roughen" in adobe illustrator does to paths) or "jagged selection". Select-->fade to layer mask: was "fade outline. The name is OK but it shouldn't be placed in "select" as what it does is just use the current selection to generate a layer mask. I mean, just about every command and tool uses the current selection. So, Can this be placed in Layer-->mask, maybe? Alternatively this can be approached from the usage angle - thinking that this script will probably be used to create a photo frame with blurry edges, it can be placed in Filters-->decor. I'd also like to suggest changing filters-->distorts to just "distort". Most of the other entries in the filters menu are verbs - enhance, blur, combine, etc. I don't think "Distorts" is even a valid word in English - the plural form of the word is "distortions". Actually this is another valid option. I'd like to see "colors-->colorify" removed as it does almost the same thing as "colorize" with a simplified interface with less options. So, to sum it up, a lot of good work has been done on this version so far by the Gimp team. Hopefully all the small details will be taken care of as well to create the polished application the Gimp deserves to be. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
