Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP UI quality opinion

[Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ freenet de>]

On 02/16/2012 12:56 PM, Aleksey Midenkov wrote:
> But along all these years when no one
> from Gimp creators scratched their head to get it more convenient
> everyone must ask that question. Over and over. And you should answer
> it every time, you deserve it. Spare your sarcasm.

First it's an unfounded assumption, when you simply have no clue what 
has been going on regarding development.

Then the part about "deserving" it speaks of a rotten, poisonous 
mindset, when your are dealing with a project run by volunteers, who 
generously offer the result of their freetime-work for free as in speech 
and beer.


> To Martin: even 'Save' and 'Save as' on toolbar saves one click. Not
> saying about such repitive operations as Rotate, Resize, Auto levels
> etc. Now trivial photo treatment is done with the whole lot of clicks!
> I'm pretty sure their count can be reduced thrice with toolbars.

The overall potential for time-saving goes down with increasing the 
number of toolbar icons, as it approaches an overwhelming forest of stuff.

Ambitious and professional users (the desired audience for GIMP) tend to 
learn shortcuts for the very frequent commands. To then have toolbar 
icons for them is just a waste of space.


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