[Gimp-developer] [GIMP] Suggestion to simplify user interaction

[David Gowers]

On 10/13/06, Philip Ganchev <phil.ganchev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This can be avoided if the order of commands is predefined.  New
> commands would have the least priority, unless they are explicilty
> moved relative to others.  For example if I add a new command "rotate
> colors" and query for "rotate", it would appear after "rotate image"
> and "rotate layer", even though it comes before them alphabetically.


This is a good idea; I cannot comment on  what tecnical aspects would be
needed to make it work.


> There is modality in that typing a key in search mode shows you
> commands that match that key, while in normal mode it executes a
> command.  A way to avoid that is to use a quasi-mode, such as
> searching only while Alt is pressed, and executing the selected
> command when Alt is released.  This may work, though I expect it would
> be ergonomically hard.


A fairly nice way would be like this

Alt-R (release alt) otate layer

More of the initial letters could be typed with alt if it suited the user.
And of course, the query should be terminatable by pressing Escape.

If there is no menu bar, the query box can pop up over the image.  Or

it can move the image down to make space when it appears.


The first of these suggestions would work well. The second would almost
certainly be very irritating.
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