What Elle said. I move windows around a lot, and resize them,
according to what part of the image I'm working on and how magnified
I need it to be. Most of the time I have no need to see anything in
the Toolbox or various dialogs, so having them showing all the time
isn't a good use of screen real estate.
I also use the preferences "Resize window on zoom" and "Resize window
on image size change". I know these are unpopular with the core
developers, and it's forever being threatened that they'll disappear,
but they make sense to me: most of the time I want the window to
show as much of the image as possible, but I don't want to waste
real estate on showing empty space around the image.
In programs like LibreOffice and Inkscape that insist on showing a
lot of empty space outside the document I'm working on, I'm forever
resorting to silly workarounds like making the window bigger than I
actually want, then moving the wasted-space part of it off the screen.
2. Is the screen
(select multiple)
Freestanding
Attached to a
laptop
A tablet
A drawing tablet
One screen
Multiple screens
3. Which do you
prefer? (pick one)
Single Window Mode
Multi Window Mode
4. Why?
5. What editing
tasks do you most often use GIMP for? (pick multiple)
Photo editing
Drawing / Painting
Other (please
specify)
6. What tools from
the toolbox do you use most often, and which ones do you seldom or
never use? (From use all the
time to never use or did not know that existed)
Rectangle Select
Tool
Ellipse Select Tool
Free Select Tool
Fuzzy Select Tool
Select By Color
Tool
Scissors Select
Tool
Foreground Select
Tool
Vector Tool
Color Picker Tool
Zoom Tool
Measure Tool
Move Tool
Alignment Tool
Crop Tool
Rotate Tool
Scale Tool
Shear Tool
Perspective Tool
Flip Tool
Cage Tool
Text Tool
Bucket Fill Tool
Blend Tool
Pencil Tool
Paintbrush Tool
Eraser Tool
Airbrush Tool
Ink Tool
Clone Tool
Healing Tool
Perspective Clone
Tool
Blur/Sharpen Tool
Smudge Tool
Dodge Burn Tool
Desaturate Tool
Color Balance Tool
Hue-Saturation Tool
Colorize Tool
Brightness/Contrast
Tool
Threshold Tool
Levels Tool
Curves Tool
Posterize Tool
GEGL Tool
7. Which dialogs do
you regularly keep open, and which ones do you seldom or never use? (From use all the
time to never use or did not know that existed)
Tool Options
Device Status
Layers
Channels
Paths
Colormap
Histogram
Selection Editor
Navigation
Undo History
Point
Sample Point
Colors
Brushes
Paint Dynamics
Pattern
Gradients
Palettes
Fonts
Tool Preset
Buffer
Image
Document History
Templates
Error Console
8. Which operations
do you access through the drop-down/right-click menus, and which ones
via shortcuts?"
Need options
9. Do you rearrange
the dialogs? (Yes / No)
10. How?
11. Do you rearrange
the Toolbox? (Yes / No)
12. How?
13. Would you submit
a screen shot of your work flow? (not required)
What questions do
you think might be good to ask in a survey, if the goal is to more
efficiently and effectively accommodate various work flows on various
display screens? Hopefully without accidentally throwing out what
currently works well for at least some users (maybe the users least
likely to subscribe to a mailing list about the GIMP UI are the users
who like the current UI).