Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP UI quality opinion

[Tobias Oelgarte <tobias oelgarte googlemail com>]

Am 17.02.2012 23:31, schrieb Bogdan Szczurek:
> The second point is trivial, as GIMP's UI already drifts towards free 
> choice of such behavior. The first and the rest of the discussion 
> suggest that you specificaly want to have user customizable toolbars 
> in GIMP, hence, you _are_ trying to convince devs to do so.
A more customizable GUI would be nice. I also prefer to have small 
toolbars, but that can be aligned both ways (horizontal/vertical). 
Additionally im really a fan of toolbars  that contain dialogs. That 
means that the toolbar more or less acts like the default menu, but 
displays option dialogs instead of having single entries. For example if 
you want to change the color, you can click on the "color" icon and a 
color picker appears as a temporary popup. That way you can easily group 
tools and settings together, without having them displayed all the time.

If the user wants a permanent dialog, he should be able to drag it to 
the wanted place and it should stay there (single window or attached 
dialog).

This could be a nice addition even for the professional users. Even if 
you use a lot of shortcuts, there are still some functions for that you 
don't use them, just because you don't use this function regularly.

In the recent weeks i used MyPaint quite often. It is still very limited 
and far away from being perfect, but im really in favor of the approach 
of the gui design. You have quick access to all relevant functions, 
while still having a very small interface, even without knowing every 
shortcut.

Just my 2 cents
Tobias Oelgarte