On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:53:48PM -0500, Jozsef Mak wrote: > One more thing, which is not related to this particular release of Gimp. > Why is it that the dialogue boxes in Gimp are so large? By the way, this > feature characterizes most open source applications. If you look at > Photoshop or Fireworks, for instance, you immediately notice that their > dialogue boxes are almost half the size of Gimp?s. The brand new New Layer > window box has four options: Foreground color, Background color, White and > Transparency, all in one column. If the layout would be two rows rather > than a single column the height of the dialogue box could be reduced at > least 2 cm, which would make the window more compact and less obtrusive. > The same is the case with the filter windows. Next to the preview window > there is plenty of unused space, which would be a logical location for the > preview check box. With these rearrangements the filter windows too could > have been made significantly smaller. I also think that the Save, Cancel > and usually the dialogue box buttons are way too large, wasting lots of > space. > free software developers are near-sighted?
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