RE: Gimp-style menus

["Gerry Chu" <gerry-list gerrychu com>]

Well, even when you tear the menus off, they are only applicable to that
window. So if you tear the context menu off of one window, switch to another
image, and click "Blur" on the torn-off menu, the gimp will blur the first
image, I believe, which is quite inconvienent at times.

Gerry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnome-gui-list-admin gnome org
> [mailto:gnome-gui-list-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of Liam Quin
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 9:40 AM
> To: gnome-gui-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Gimp-style menus
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 06:09:54PM +0200, Guillermo S. Romero /
> Familia Romero wrote:
> > Wrong, you have not used Gimp enough. Open the menus and keep them
> > open, like with Window Maker.
>
> Wow, been using gimp for yonks and not found that feature.
>
> The problem is that there isn't a very strong visual affordance -- the
> dotted line at the top isn't a strong clue, I just thought it was a
> separator for decoration.
>
> This is why the open look menus had a push-pin -- clicking the push pin
> had the same effect as "tearing off" a pop-up menu.
>
> Please don't expect people to read the marketing-tip-of-the-day to
> work aruond UI deficiencies :-)
>
> Seriously, thuogh, the right mouse button menu is pervasive in Windows,
> was pervasive in open look (where the right mouse button, whichever
> button you configured that to be, had a label on it, on the mouse,
> saying "menu"), and Ithink it's a useful idiom.
>
> But you should be able to get to everything in annother, mouseless and
> visible way.  I do think the lack of a menubar in the gimp is not good;
> let people tear off the menu bar, gtk already has support for that.
>
> Lee
>
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