[Gimp-docs] proposal for section reordering

[Axel Wernicke]

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Hi,

Am 18.02.2007 um 11:01 schrieb Sven Neumann:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 22:12 +0100, Axel Wernicke wrote:
>
>> [1]
>> A dialog in GIMP is defined roughly as anything that is dockable. So,
>> the dialog windows that pop up when you're saving a file or applying
>> a filter are not dialogs for that definition.
>
> Actually, pretty much every window in GIMP is called a dialog. It  
> would
> probably be nice to come up with a better name for the dockable  
> dialogs.
>
> Usually a dialog is something modal. It pops up to allow the user to
> complete a certain task and closes again. Windows that stay around  
> like
> the dockable dialogs in GIMP are often called palettes. For some  
> reason
> though they are called dialogs in GIMP. Perhaps we should consider to
> change that at some point.

Well (many) other applications call such "palette". Don't they?!
I would be more than happy to see this changed. But for now I think  
we need to make a difference between dialogs that should be named  
palettes and dialog windows that is what we call these modal windows.

lexA

>
>
> Sven
>

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