[thought i had sent this already, before my sour reply to bulia (somewhat excessive in hindsight). sending now belatedly]
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 09:28 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 12:41:58AM -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 21:40 -0500, bulia byak wrote:
On 11/6/06, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote:
Should I accept this patch? It is a stringfix for consistency
between
gimp and inkscape and layers...
It makes the menu inconsistent with itself. All other commands are verbs but this one is not.
Besides, if the patch changes that, it must also change the title of the "Add layer" window.
So you think don't change? Others???? Consensus plz...I do the will of the ppl...
I'd say keep 'Add Layer'. The layer menu of both programs are very different; in fact there's only one or two other items in the menus they seem to share.
Consistency with GIMP would be nice, but on this point I don't see much benefit to changing this one item.
Incremental change! A start not the end.
Ok, the people have spoken...I will relay this.
Agreeing to intertia :(
I'd like if there was a good way to put the question to the users, you should at least bring it to the user mailing list before declaring it as "the will of the people". This is somewhat discouraging, but I do thank Jon for his prompt reply as it gave me incentive to put together a slightly modified patch to address bulias concern and fix a string I didnt grep the first time round. I thank Jon because more comments on more feature requests makes it easier to identify what work is more likely to be accepted and maybe pick out some low hanging fruit for new developers to cut their teeth on, and it means generally encouraging progress.
How about someone (not me) offering a counter-patch to gimp to show people are serious about consistency? I do still think it is better for the younger dynamic program to change, rather than try to push changes to the older more resistant to change project and improve what users have come to expect from not just GIMP but other programs too.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/