Re: [Gimp-developer] Color Tools and Bump Map as Dockable Dialogs

[Ofnuts <ofnuts laposte net>]

On 11/07/14 15:38, Joseph Bupe wrote:
> Hello Developers,
>
> IMHO, the Color Tools and Bump Map should be turned into dockable dialogs
> as a way of cleaning up/minimizing the number of po-up dialogs.
>
> All color tools could appear under the same tab as icons and clicking the
> icon should display corresponding details underneath. Changing
> values/curves should automatically affect the image; therefore, eliminating
> the need to click the image in order to access a pop-up dialog. See
> attached mock-up.

For me the question is more why some tools have controls split between 
the Tool options and a floating dialog. I hardly see the logic to have a 
floating dialog to show me the Shear/Rotation/Scale parameters when the 
Rectangle/Ellipse/Crop tools use the Tool options to display equivalent 
information.

Clicking on the image is not meant to access the dialog, it actually 
starts the tool on a given image, the dialog is a side effect... (of 
course in single-window mode it's a bit less useful). The floating 
dialog could have a meaning if it were image-oriented, i.e. if there 
were one instance of the tool for each image. This also raise the 
question of why we have the Tool-centric view where you cannot have a 
two different tools active at the same time on two different images.