GIMP Interface Proposals? 218
Anonymous Coward asks: "It would seem that naught but its developers themselves like the GIMP's UI. How would you like the GIMP to look? Reply with links to GIMPed (or Photoshopped, if you swing that way) screenshots. Individual features, the menu structure, or (preferably) default workspaces after you open up a blank new canvas." With the release of version 2.2 in the bag, 2.3 development should now be in full swing. What aspects of the interface do you think the GIMP team should make for the next release and for future relases down the line?
Re:Proper MDI. (Score:5, Informative)
And for windows there is Windows Gimp Deweirdifyer [gimp.org]
Have you actually used GIMP 2.2? (Score:4, Informative)
So yes, they did respond to that particular feedback, even if you didn't find out about it yet.
It's also relatively trivial in most WMs to make those floating windows always-on-toppish like the PS ones (only more flexible).
It could also be stated with much fairness that PhotoShop users form a disproportionate population of those complaining about same. And that if you don't like it, you're at liberty create a fork or a parallel patch set to implement the windows however you like them. Before anyone OMFGs me, compare the amount of effort involved in doing that with the amount of effort involved in creating the whole GIMP in the first place, and remember that with PS it's pretty close to impossible to do anything of this nature.
BTW, my sister-in-law [goldenlight.bur.st] uses The GIMP heavily, and swears by the floating windows and the tearoff menus.
Re:innovation (Score:3, Informative)
A terrible, terrible, terrible name for a program. Almost as bad as "OmniGraffle" (which remindes me of 'scrapple', 'scapie', and other horrible things).
Re:I'm not a GIMP developer (Score:3, Informative)
If you are using Apple's X11 and find it annoying that you must click on a window once to bring it to focus and a second time to use a tool on it, open a terminal window and type: defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm true This will enable "focus follows mouse". X11 must be restarted for the change to take effect.
Don't know if that info is in with the Fink version or not but I imagine it would work exactly the same.
Wish granted... in spades. (Score:3, Informative)