On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 07:32 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: > >> If I want a colour , I should find it on the colour menu . If I want to > >> select layers I should fine the necessary interface elements on the > >> layer menu. > > > > Sounds reasonable. We could duplicate the menu items from the Dockables > > menu that raise/create those dialogs in the places where they belong. So > > we would have "Layers dialog" in the "Image/Layers" menu and the like. > > That's as simple as editing the XML files in the menus sub-directory. > > Perhaps someone wants to come up with a patch... > > I don't think we should duplicate any menu items. Having things in two > places tends to cause unnecessary confusion. A user will have to answer > questions like "Why is this menu item in two places? Is it the same menu > item? Does it do the same thing? Which one should I use now?" Having > just one place to do things avoids such ambiguity and mental friction.
We do that for a few menu items already and I don't think it has ever caused any problems. Some examples are (and there are many more): Edit->Undo History View->Navigation Window Select->Selection Editor Colors->Info->Histogram Actually I think it's just an oversight that the Layers dialog is missing from the Layers menu. IMO all dialogs should be accessible from the menus where they belong to functionally. The "Dockables" menu is just a place to list all the available dialogs. It should be secondary. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
