On Feb 10, 2013, at 7:28 PM, Josh Andler wrote:
Here, we're not trying to remove functionality to reduce confusion... To me, we're removing redundancy. If the dialog were reimplemented from scratch to give awesome new features, that would rock... but having it offer nothing really beneficial over the text tool is just creating maintenance overhead as it currently exists.
I would honestly prefer to see us go a hybrid approach of what we have now plus GIMP's floating text controls. Get all of the common/basic controls into the floating control box and then only use the text tool control bar for advanced formatting features.
I think that's the main practical point that I was also backing.
The main case for having both was "in the abstract". Definitely not disputing that the current dialog can be dropped.
The main point for coding then is to avoid hardcoding functionality to widgets in the toolbar. We've had too much of that in the past, so just need to keep clear of introducing more.