Moin, I would like to propose another project. Whether we want this for 2.6 or later pretty much depends on whether we find someone who wants to work on this. But I think we absolutely need this if we want to improve our user interface.
What I am talking about is size entries. Widgets that allow the user to specify a size either in pixels, physical units or relative to some other size. Such widgets usually show up in groups and the relationship between them needs to be considered as well. We currently have a widget for this and it is (a) cumbersome and error-prone to use from a developer point of view (b) cumbersome to use from a user point of view (c) ugly and needlessly large It would be great if we could develop something to replace all our size entries. We want something that is flexible enough to cover the complex cases (see for example the Print Size dialog or the SVG import plug-in), but it should still be straight-forward to use for the simple case. We definitely need an architecture here that follows a model-view concept. Code that deals with changes to sizes shouldn't have to care about the widget that the user actually deals with. At some point I have experimented with something into this direction. The result is GimpUnitStore and GimpUnitComboBox as found in the app/widgets directory. Definitely far from what we need, but perhaps looking at this code can give some ideas about how one could tackle the problem. On the user interface side we would want a variety of widgets that can be used with the size models. Scales/sliders should be supported as well as spin-buttons with unit menus and entries that allow the user to input text such as "4.5 cm". I think it is important to first get a very good idea of what the requirements are. It would be good to have a list of use cases and a pretty good specification of the user interface. Then we can think about a model to cover this. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
