Re: [Gimp-gui] Tool Options - proposal to new ordering of features

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 11/08/2015 01:01 PM, Jehan wrote:
> The way I foresee would be at some point in some (likely distant)
> future, we could have a powerful API allowing people to update the UI.
> And when this happens, maybe it would allow to reorder options or other
> things. Then users would just have to download a plugin (because if the
> API allows it, there will be someone making a plugin to change the UI).

The idea of being able to reorder the tool options for a given tool to 
suit one's personal workflow, that makes a lot of sense. Would this be 
incredibly difficult to program?

Tools and tool options should facilitate rather than impede the flow of 
work, and GIMP is used by a very diverse group of people for very 
diverse workflows. So a fixed order that makes everyone happy is maybe 
not even possible.

Americo would find a particular order convenient for painting, and I 
suspect his suggeted order makes sense for a lot of other people who use 
GIMP for painting.

Speaking as a photographer, for the dodge/burn tool I'd really like to 
put the options that are currently at the very bottom, instead at the 
very top.

Other examples from other tools and workflows would be easy to find.

Elle