Re: [Gimp-developer] [GUI] Scrollbars for Script-Fu dialogs

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Sat, 2014-03-01 at 15:16 +0100, scl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today a contributor addressed the problem of the
> missing possibility for scrollbars in Script-Fu
> dialogs, see [bug 725432].
> He (or she) thankfully offers a patch.
>
>  From my point of view the problem lies deeper:
> if a dialog needs such a scrollbar it is very
> probably overloaded and not enough user friendly.
>
> I'm thinking of these solutions:
> A) Reduce the number of elements in these dialogs.
> B) Use tabbed dialogs to organize these elements
> better.
> Perhaps better solutions can still be found.
>
> How do you think can we solve this?

Not at all.

If a 3rd party script writer decides to have 50
parameters, the Script-Fu UI must still handle
that gracefully :)

Of course I generally agree, it's bad habit, but
what can we do...

Regards,
--Mitch