[Gimp-web] Menu proposal.

Carol Spears carol at gimp.org
Thu Aug 14 02:29:13 2003


Branko Collin wrote:

>On 13 Aug 2003, at 20:08, Carol Spears wrote:
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>>Nice to hear from you Branko.  Please clear up your confusion about
>>tutorials and beloved docbook docs.
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>As did Scizzo, I tried to approach it from the user's point of view. 
>If I were a new user, how would I like to learn about how to use the 
>GIMP? Well, there are users who like a clear manual, in which they 
>can look things up, and there are others who swear by tutorials, that 
>gets them to the nitty-gritty of editing an image real quick. Both 
>are valid ways of learning, but both are ways of learning. 
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>Actually I thought of suggesting to rename the link text to 
>'learning' or 'help', but those names may be confusing too, so I did 
>not suggest them.
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>There's another thing and that is that I don't like menu clutter.
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>But in the end, I don't care that much about the issue. If Scizzo 
>likes both types of documentation to have their own link each, that's 
>fine with me too.
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Aww, shoot!

That is it? I was rested and ready for a big knock down drag out fight 
and then to be left alone with the job of reassembling the bbc fanclub.

Can we banter a bit more and then you give up?

carol