Re: [Gimp-developer] Search Action dialog feature

[Tobias Oelgarte <tobias oelgarte googlemail com>]

Am 15.01.2014 23:15, schrieb Ofnuts:
> On 01/15/2014 11:18 AM, Chris Mohler wrote:
> > A counter-example: I need the 'Newsprint' filter every 2 months or 
> > so, but for some reason can't seem to remember which filter menu it's 
> > under. Why is it such a disaster to expose that filter to a search? A 
> > follow-up question: (without looking - no cheating) which 
> > menu/sub-menu would *you* look under to find 'Newsprint'? 
>
> "Help/Plugin browser"
>
> To be honest, I sometimes don't remember the menu locations for some 
> of my own scripts... but I don't remember their exact names either. 
> And very often you don't even know what word to search for, or the 
> word you would search for ("halftoning") is not the one used 
> ("newsprint").
I'm the same. But in way more then 50% of the cases i know the name 
quite well and still find myself searching through the sub menus, just 
to locate it. A search could also easily avoid the 
"halftoning"/"newsprint" issue. It just needs to contain both or more 
search terms for the same item. This would also increase the impression 
for people that are used to other graphic programs and try to find the 
same or similar functionality in Gimp. Switching to Gimp isn't that 
hard, but not finding the stuff you are used to (even though it exists) 
can be quite headache.

Greetings from
Tobias Oelgarte