Re: [Gimp-developer] An update on the menu search

[Srihari Sriraman <techie visishta net>]

> can you give a statement what this is suppose to achieve.

Maximize productivity

  Almost forget that there is a menu-bar. Use the mouse/touchpad lesser.

Intent driven rather than hierarchy driven navigation

  Focus on 'what' rather than 'how'.

Discover functionality

  For new users

Help transition

  From proprietary software. "What is 'smth'  in GIMP?"

What key combination activates that?

Shift + ?

Also, do you have a public Git repo or something?

We do now - https://github.com/ssvz4/tito

> why not extend that with more keywords, or even the
> documentation for searching (to find the right command,
> or to look up documentation).

Definitely planning to do that

> GIMP is a tool for working fast.

True. We're thinking adaptive results. So a beginner might search for "delete" or "ellipse", while an experienced user will not.

Results should (will) be ordered by frequency of usage. (Or a more appropriate adapting technique)

> Is it a plugin or is it hacked into gimp core?

 Hacked in...

Talking of improvements, we're thinking of regex, adaption, vocabulary, auto-complete, hierarchy based search, etc.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:30 PM, peter sikking <peter mmiworks net> wrote:

Srihari Sriraman wrote:

> We now have it up and working.
> Still looking to implement loads of features...
> Do pool in suggestions!
> http://youtu.be/hGAgG_XRhHc?hd=1

being part of the GIMP UI design team, I have to ask:

can you give a statement what this is suppose to achieve.

I can see the value in having searchable all the tooltip text
and have that mapped to obscure plugins, to find them.
and why not extend that with more keywords, or even the
documentation for searching (to find the right command,
or to look up documentation).

but doing a delete? the Delete key is a hell of a lot faster for that.

doing a ellipse selection? click on the tool icon.

all this typing, then scrolling, is a very slow way of doing that.
and GIMP is a tool for working fast.

 --ps

     founder + principal interaction architect
         man + machine interface works

     http://blog.mmiworks.net: on interaction architecture

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Srihari Sriraman