Re: [Gimp-developer] Bring back normal handling of other file formats

[Tobias Oelgarte <tobias oelgarte googlemail com>]

Am 22.06.2012 01:39, schrieb Guillermo Espertino (Gez):
> El 21/06/12 20:22, Elle Stone escribió:
> > On 6/21/12, Tobias Oelgarte<tobias oelgarte googlemail com>  wrote:
> > > I entirely agree with the observation that the "export" entry in the
> > > menu is badly positioned. It really "disappears" between the icon heavy
> > > "save" and "print" sections, which really seduces me to accidentally
> > > switch off my brain and select the "save as..." entry.
> > Tobias, that is an excellent observation - the heavy Save, Save as
> > icons (plus two options seldom used, then a line) and No icons for
> > Export to, Export - that would help explain why my eyes just don't
> > "see" the export options - they do disappear behind all the visual
> > competition
> Notice that gnome-based desktops don't show icons in menus anymore (at 
> least in the default form), so that isn't always true.
> But it's a good point anyway, probably against the inclusion of icons 
> in menus.
>
> Gez
Actually i love icons and would miss them. If they are placed wisely and 
are easily distinguishable then i don't even need to read the text, 
which improves my working speed significantly. A good example for the 
use of icons is nearly every media player. Who does not understand the 
"play/stop/pause/..." buttons that just use a typical icon instead of 
text? I compare icons to Japanese kanji where recognizing a single 
character is a whole different experience compared to reading latin 
letters that form a word.

But in case of Gimps File menu we have not very well distinguishable 
icons, placed in a bad way (wrong weighting) and not really good placed 
items in general. I mean what has "Export..." to do with "Create 
Template..." to be inside the same section, or why is "export to" 
disabled if "Save" isn't?

I would recommend to give the export functionality a useful icon and to 
seperate it from "Create Template", while renaming "Save" to "Save xcf" 
or "Save project" and "Save as..." to "Save project as/under...".

Tobias Oelgarte