Hi,

patrik@linet.se writes:

I've got a suggestion about the GUI/Layout. You can se the idea at http://www.linet.se/gimp/

Your mockup doesn't show half as many dockables as the standard user will want to keep around, let alone a power user. Where are those sidebars you are speaking of? How does this mockup deal with multiple images? I don't think that having only one image visible at a time is a reasonable solution.

Sven

patrik@linet.se wrote:

I've got a suggestion about the GUI/Layout. You can se the idea at http://www.linet.se/gimp/

Looks rather like a request along the lines of bug #7379.

On Wednesday, August 17, 2005, 12:38:44, Sven Neumann wrote:

Your mockup doesn't show half as many dockables as the standard user will want to keep around, let alone a power user. Where are those sidebars you are speaking of? How does this mockup deal with multiple images?

From what I see, they appear as buttons (tabs) in the menu bar. Personally, I'd love such a GUI, as long as it allowed me to detach individual imaged/docks.

I don't think that having only one image visible at a time is a reasonable solution.

Since I rarely work with more than 1 image, such a GUI would be very useful to me. It also saves the hassle of having to manually resize the image window to be as big as possible without covering any of the controls (remember, Windows' support for rearranging windows is much worse than with a good X window manager).

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I agree with both arguments. The ability to tab images like i tab xterms would be very useful. At the same time, there are in fact a lot of times where i want to see more than one image at once...and this is very common if you're doing lots of graphics work.

Its actually been painful that scribus doesn't seem to like showing multiple documents at once...but a lot of layout apps are like this, so i can deal with it.
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:40:43AM -0400, Chris Clymer wrote:

I agree with both arguments. The ability to tab images like i tab xterms would be very useful. At the same time, there are in fact a lot of times where i want to see more than one image at once...and this is very common if you're doing lots of graphics work.

Most especially, this is the whole point of the View->New View feature.

I like to use grids, and zoom in a lot, when editing some graphics (esp. sprites and other artwork for cellphone games). It really helps to have a 1:1 view sitting on my screen where I can see it, with all of the layer borders, selection borders, and snap-to-grids disabled.

-bill!

On 8/17/05, patrik@linet.se wrote:

Hi,
I've got a suggestion about the GUI/Layout. You can se the idea at http://www.linet.se/gimp/

I hope you like it!

Placing a dockable location to the side of the image view window could be nice to have.

Rockwalrus