____/ Mark Kent on Monday 30 July 2007 14:38 : \____
> ed <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:18:31 +0100
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ ed on Sunday 29 July 2007 17:03 : \____
>>>
>>> > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:26:45 +0100
>>> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> GIMP?s major UI revamp
>>> >>
>>> >> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> >> | GIMP is well known as a powerful application, and especially in
>>> >> the last few | years has gained a rather large community of users.
>>> >> There?s also a large | group of people for whom GIMP would be their
>>> >> tool of choice, if it had the | same kind of attention to user
>>> >> interface as Inkscape, GNOME, Firefox and | other modern Open
>>> >> Source apps. `----
>>> >>
>>> >> http://www.venturecake.com/gimps-major-ui-revamp/
>>> >
>>> > Really don't like this. All the windows in one place, that's
>>> > fugly.
>>>
>>> Yes, that's what I said in Digg. Lost versatility and power. No
>>> virtual desktop and a total mess if you want to have multiple
>>> applications in sight, e.g. working on a 32x32 pixel image while at
>>> the same time watching a preview of a Web page it belongs to. It
>>> seems like the GIMP is being pulled into the Win95 mentality.
>>
>> Sadly I think the GIMP team are facing a lot of users who want to see
>> GIMP look like Photoshop, just like a lot of people expect OOorg to
>> look like MS Office *shudders*...
>>
>> To me, this is diabolical. No one wants to have a single application
>> take up the whole of the screen, thats why WM's come with shaders, so
>> we can move it out the way... but the moment we do that with the GIMP
>> window, it takes everything else with it too. Using lists of windows is
>> just a pin in the ass, you need that open all the time in order for it
>> to be useful, and often, it's just not the way that one thinks, "hey i
>> want to move the window with Untitled 12 in the name... ok - now I have
>> to find that in the list of window titles...", I call that a total user
>> interface bug.
>>
>
> Is there enough processing power around to make the UIs fully
> customisable? A separable layer between the application front-end and
> the window manager, which can or could be user-customised - perhaps
> xml-based or something similar?
I was always under the impression that there's a loose tie between ImageMagick
and GIMP. I mean, some of the functions achieve similar results. There's also
script fu.
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