I haven't seen anything in a while about the menu reorganization which was proposed a while back.

One thing I'd like to see is getting script-fu and python-fu items out of separate menus and integrating them into the regular menus, so users don't have to know what language something was written in to find it.

With that in mind, I've started from the current Image menu reorg page http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/ImageMenu and made a few changes:

- Reformatted a bit, in plaintext. The stuff on the wiki is html but it's really inconsistent, has paragraph tags inside list items, and closes lists at the wrong place, so it doesn't show the right hierarchy and is impossible to copy&paste properly.

- Moved script-fu items into the main menu and got rid of the Script-Fu menu.

- Combined Animation and Animators: it seemed confusing to have both.

- Put the Alchemy scripts under Artistic. They're not really Artistic but they do vaguely similar things.

- Distributed the few items in the Python-Fu menu to places that seemed vaguely reasonable.

I ended up with 2 more items under Filters than are there now. Admittedly that's still a lot; some of these could be combined, but since it's only two more items and I was trying to change as little as possible, I didn't try.

I only looked briefly at Xtns. Really, I think that menu is fine except that again I'd get rid of the language menus, and put the script-fu stuff under Render. That seemed so simple that I didn't bother to write that up as a proposal.

So here's my proposal. Does it look reasonable? I tried to compare it both to the existing menus in 2.2.6 (haven't compared with CVS yet) and to the proposal on the wiki, but things got confused with the re-editing I needed to do so I might have missed something.

I'm willing to do some work to make this happen, if people agree that it should happen and if it's not too late to get it in for 2.4. I think most of the work involves tweaking script-fu and python-fu registration routines. Is there documentation that would need to be updated? The menu page on the gimp manual doesn't seem to mention script-fu or python-fu menus at all.

This seems to be covered under bugs 116145 (image menus) and 145507 (Xtns). The latter has a patch from Carol which might be slightly stale now, but also makes reference to bug 158980, to make a logo browser which would move the logos out of Xtns. That's a great idea, but until it happens, moving the scripts is probably still reasonable.

Thoughts?

...Akkana

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