Hi,

IMO it's about time to try to clean up the preferences dialog once more. Here are a couple of ideas on how the dialog could be improved:

- I'd like to see the "Interface" group be removed. That would flatten the hierarchy which is kind of arbitrary at the moment.

- The theme chooser should be moved to a separate page, the Interface page is rather crowded.

- Input device configuration should either be redone or moved to another page. Having it on a page of it's own doesn't make too much sense.

- The items on the session management page could IMO be moved to other pages.

- Perhaps we should show the dialog with the Folders section collapsed. That would make the dialog smaller and less frightening.

- We could IMHO remove a couple of options. They could stay to be configurable via gimprc but we don't necessarily need a GUI for all of these. Possible candidates for removal are IMO:

- undo-preview-size - info-window-per-display
- tearoff-menus
- last-opened-size
- use-help
- perfect-mouse
- cursor-updating
- min-colors
- install-colormap
- stingy-memory-use
- trust-dirty-flag
- restore-session
- restore-accels

These changes are all rather easy to do so this is a nice job for a fresh contributor who isn't afraid to learn some gtk+ and gimp basics. Please do also not understand the above as a list of instructions. This is just how I would address the problem. If you pick up the job then it's up to you to decide how it is done in detail.

Sven