Re: [Gimp-gui] Toolbox Groups

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-10-15 01:51, Andrew Pullins wrote:
> Feature Request [1], attachment 313344 [2]
>
> #User Story
>
> As a user with a small vertical screen estate my toolbox pushes the
> foreground & background color, active brush, pattern & gradient, and
> active image down past the window. Depending on the screen size some
> of the tools even get pushed down. To fix this I have to make the tool
> box wider to fit more tools in the toolbox and even take away tools. A
> wider tool box takes up room on my canvas which is the most important
> dialog.
>
> #Details
>
> To improve user experience I propose toolbox groups. Attached is an
> image showing how this could be done. In Preferences > Toolbox there
> would be a new folder button to add folder groups. Use the up and down
> arrows or Drag tool into folders to add them to groups. when tools are
> selected they are displayed at the top of the tool group(in the
> Toolbox not the group menu). This feature would go nicely with the
> Toolbox Spacer feature request.

This is an interesting idea, but I wonder if we can't do better than 
this. It does not feel that efficient to me to basically have submenus 
on tools.
I'm wondering if some better user experience cannot be achieved to deal 
with the fact that GIMP has more and more tools (*), so now I'm waiting 
from inputs from you all. :-)

Jehan

(*) Of course one such idea could be to get rid of some tools, like I 
wish it were possible with the Unified Transform Tool (replacing other 
transform tools) if we could get better controls there!