Re: [Gimp-developer] wilber in the toolbar

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 12-05-12 04:02 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> If we do care about it, is there a reason we add a Wilber logo to the
> top of the toolbar?

As Tobias mentioned it is a drag and drop target area. There is a tooltip 
that pops up if you point at the area long enough with the mouse. The logo 
in there does nothing to make you think it is anything but decoration. A 
different icon or some text might be more useful (IIRC, there was some text 
in there at one time).

I'd forgotten it was there as I turned it off some time after that area 
appeared as I never use drag and drop with GIMP. I just tried dragging 
images to the image window when no image was open and the only image type I 
could drag was a PNG file. If I try to drag a JPG file I get a GIMP Message 
box popping up saying that the open failed due to "Unknown file type".

When this was discussed on IRC some time after the change had been made and 
some people were commenting/complaining about the "waste of space" the 
response was to add a line to the gimprc file. The idea of making it 
configurable via Preferences was rejected back then due to something along 
the line of not wanting to add yet another option to an already long list of 
options.

Perhaps it is time to have another think about whether there should be a 
configurable option to turn on/off the DnD target area. I don't think we 
should expect users who want to turn it off to have to find and edit their 
gimprc file.

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