On 08/09/2010 10:51 PM, LightningIsMyName wrote: > Hello, > > I recently re-read all the GSoC suggestions for 2010, and I found this > interesting one about making the menus searchable: > https://sites.google.com/site/gimpwiki/long-term-plans/menu-accesibility > > 0. How do we want the search to work? A user can bring a search dialog > up? Will the search be based on a string? A tree?
No dialogs please. What about a search field to the right in the menubar, accesible through a keyboard shortcut, like Firefox' Ctrl+K? I imagine it to work like this: The user can type a string, and it will be matched against all texts associated with a filter/operation/whatever. The title, the description, the short summary etc. Typing "Dogde" should match with "Dodge". As you type, you get a list (not tree) of hits. Each hit has a preview with the effect on the image if applied. 'down, down, return' activates the second matched item, like it works in all similar UIs. > 2. We need to define a "usable" plugin browser. One of the features I'm > missing the most, is a preview image. Plugins should have an option to > register a preview image of their effect (probably by having the image's > binary data embedded in them). This also relates to the feature request > of having a logo script browser... I don't think registering a fixed preview image is good enough, it should be a preview of the effect if applied to the current image. > 3. Will plugins also have a category (in addition to a menu location)? > How should we organize the plugins? With a good search mechanism, organizing plug-ins becomes less important, right? It should be possible to have descriptions good enough to avoid us from having additional tags. Regards, Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "Automatic tab style and removed tab title bar" _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
