Re: Gimp Menus.

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:14:09AM -0400, Mohan Krishna wrote:
> > for individual  windows.I think  the GIMP program will be much better if
it
> > is like MDI(Multi Document Interface),where we  have a parent window and
we
>
> For what it's worth, I'd like to opine that Windows' MDI interface is
> one of the most annoying setups I've had the misfortune to use.
> There's nothing intelligent that can be done with the titlebar of the
> swallowed window, and besides, despite its awesome complexity, X11
> doesn't actually support window-in-window MDI.

I was going to bother to reply until I saw the above.  Note: I agree.
Managing Windows is up to the Window Manager, not the application.  If you
don't like your window manager's options, choose a new one or change it.
Enlightenment, for example, allows grouping of windows which makes things
very simple.

> One day someone will actually implement a global menubar option for
> GTK+/GNOME, and the GIMP can use that.

Which isn't a bad idea buy I despise on macs ;-)

> For my part, the biggest annoyance with the right-click menu is that I
> can't use the right button as "erase" or "draw with the current tool,
> but the background colour". There's not really any "objects" in GIMP,
> that a context menu could apply to..

I'd like to be able to quickly change layers with a right-click ...

... options ...
Layers -> Background
          Text
          Shading
... other options ...

But that might just be me ;-)