On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 05:53:58PM +0200, David Revoy wrote:
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> http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6894/20111022mypaintbrushgro.jpg

About the "all" group: maybe doable if we use our existing "select multiple
groups at once" code (the thing that happens when you ctrl-click all
groups).  Still, would have to gray out the "remove group", and take care of
lots of small things (eg. what happens when you drag a brush into it).  Not
a trivial change.

About using icons instead of names: I think this is the way to go. Again,
not a trivial change at all, but IMO one that brings more increase in
usability.  We could look for an icon called brushes/<groupname>/icon.png
and have a default icon or two if the user creates a new group.  Would need
to add code to import/export those icons.

The current group selector widget (which displays the group text labels and
acts as drag&drop target) cannot be easily changed to show images instead of
text; it would have to be rewritten, taking care to still be resizeable
(what happens if there are more groups to display than space available).

I wouldn't make an always-visible "add group" button, IMO a single empty
favourites group will do the job for 95% of the users.  (And maybe offer
right-click menu "toggle favourite" as alternative to drag&drop.)

If we really plan to make a release within one month, I fear either of the
changes are too ambitions for this short time span (unless some developer
has an unusual amout of time at the moment).  There are also important
details and bugs, like out-of-memory crash when loading big ORA files.

-- 
Martin Renold

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