Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-12-15 16:02, Joseph Bupe wrote:
> On 15 December 2015 at 16:52, Jehan <jehan girinstud io> wrote:
>
> > There were propositions of inverting the click and shift-click
> > (click would create directly a layer of your last type and
> > shift-click open the dialog),
>
> This would be more logical.

Have you read my email? This is not "logical", this is only simpler for 
*you*. If we want to go this way, the most "logical" way is likely for a 
button to not choose anything by default, *NOT* to choose particular 
settings on the user behalf. Thus basically the logical thing is what 
GIMP does.

I don't say this is the best UI at all. But I say that your proposition 
(having the settings choice done on the user behalf by default) is not 
the right change, in my opinion. The fact that we had as many different 
preferences (written down in the linked thread) as available option 
shows that the choice proposed by this dialog is not meaningless.
If someone has a better default UI to propose, we are happy to read 
propositions, but I don't think that just inverting the button behavior 
is the right thing to do here.

Jehan