On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:17:45AM +0200, Fr?d?ric van der Essen wrote: > [ ---snipped a nice bio and other good to read things---- ] > > - Gimp's worst popups:
i can talk about these.... > * if i must save a .png over an existing one there is no less than 5 > popups... with the most useless "warning .png can't export layers, are > you sure .?" The content of these 5 popups can fit in the first one, or > better, in the save file dialog. ah, the export dialog. using gimp-1.0 made me avoid these! if you are working with a non-transparent png, then simply flatten and save. then edit-->undo to get back to the layered (possible mess) you were working on. "Save as copy" can avoid changing the name of the image window, which is really nice for saving the xcf. what i would like to see is an additional option in the Merge Visible Layers dialog, which would allow to merge the visible layers and dispose of the non-visible layers so that saving a transparent png can be just as simple. the complicated export dialog is there because (perhaps) there have been so many new and inexperienced users to gimp complaining about accidentally exporting an image that they really really wanted to keep (had they understood things better). perhaps the export dialog is one of the things that could be changed in an "expert" and "beginner" Preference. > * when using the crop tool, a giant popup pops right where fred is > cropping, ??? > all the asked options of this popup can be placed in a panel with > the tool options. dude, you need to install the last gimp-2.3 tarball! this is fixed already and in need of expert testing! > * Filters popups : They are - Huge (against #4) with a very small > preview (yes i know about the settings) they should be very small, with > a huge preview in the main window. (like the crop tool) > the same gimp-2.3 has zoomable previews. both gimp-2.2 and gimp-2.3 have a modifiable preview size via your gtkrc, i put a howto online for this: http://carol.gimp.org/gimp2/basics/gui/gtk/gtkrc.html it will make the filter (plug-in) window larger. David Odin has recently made some more improvements to the previews. like the new croptool, they are in need of testing from users less happy with things than me. about the rest of the suggestions, there are other people involved who are far more qualified to answer those. these felt like productive suggestions to me, thank you! one thing i did see was something about firefox tabs. i often wish that firefox tabs worked more like gimps. gimps tabs can be moved around and managed sanely. i only recently discovered firefox dnd tabs -- not as good in my opinion. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
