Re: [Gimp-gui] Force Toolbox Widgets To Bottom

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 10/15/2015 12:41 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> If I may suggest, we should work on a complete redesign of the toolbox
> and tools' options. The way things are going, we are likely to create
> another Frankenstein toolbox.
>
> What we are missing here is cold analysis. A lot of your requests stem
> from resizing the toolbox. Frankly, GIMP is probably the only design
> software I know of where people resize the toolbox at all. My guess is
> that it's because its design sucks. How about we design it right
> instead of applying bandaids all around?
>
> Alex

Am I the only person who likes the Toolbox just the way it is?

Yes, I resize the Toolbox from time to time, and I find the ability to 
resize the Toolbox very handy, depending on whether I want more room for 
the image, or more room to read the layer names (I end up with large 
layer stacks, and so I label all the layers to keep track of what layer 
does what).

I love being able to drop the dialogs that I want into the Toolbox, and 
the ability to rearrange them as seems convenient for the task at hand.

I've used a lot of different image editing programs, including 
PhotoShop, and I've never understood all the complaints that GIMP should 
look more like PhotoShop, because to me it already looks pretty much the 
same, except I like the GIMP layout better.

I put the Toolbox in a long narrow strip along the left edge of the 
screen, leaving a large square area for the image. The screen is 
1600x1200, and yes, that's not a small screen.

Here's a screenshot showing the left edge of the screen, showing the 
Toolbox and an image window, in which I free up some vertical real 
estate by hiding the menu bar: 
http://ninedegreesbelow.com/bug-reports/gimp29/gimp-toolbox.png

I'm having a difficult time imagining a more efficient layout for Tools 
than GIMP already has. (I don't mean Single-Window Mode, which seems to 
me to be completely unuseable, but different strokes for different folks).

Best,
Elle