3. Change the default image size (any particular reason it is 377x233?) I'd suggest 1024x768

I'd suggest VGA (640x480) or even less, so that it fits on a 1024x768 screen. Web statistics from July 2006 show that only 19% of the users have screens larger than 1024x768. While I expect this percentage to be higher among GIMP users (maybe close to 40% or 50%?), we should still make sure that the default settings work fine on a typical laptop screen (widescreen laptops are not so common yet even if they represent the majority of the new sales in many countries).

I agree here, 1024x768 is way too large for default.

6. A wider selection of basic brushes would be good, especially with the #5.

Agreed. Any proposals?

I think there should at least be a set of much larger brushes, both solid and soft, something like 30, 50, 100, 200, 300

9. I'd turn on "Save Tool options on exit" by default. We have a "reset to default" in the dialogs if someone wants to reset the tools.

Hmmm... I'm not sure about that one. I easily forget that I had lowered the brush opacity in my previous gimp session and sometimes it takes me a while to see that something is wrong. I prefer to start in a predictable state. Of course I can turn off the auto-save feature. But I am not sure about what the default should be...

I think is should be turned on by default. The reason is that it is much less work to reset the tool options than to re-configure them as they were. If a user does a lot of changes to the tool options, it is easier to fix "Ah crap, it saved my tool options, I want them reseted." than "Ah crap, all my precious tool options adjustments didn't get saved!".

- Martin N.

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