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Menus under Help/User Manual Roman Joost 06 Jul 10:41
  Menus under Help/User Manual Sven Neumann 06 Jul 11:26
Roman Joost
2008-07-06 10:41:38 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Menus under Help/User Manual

Hi,

I was about going through the pointers we added to the interesting topics of the manual. Those links like "Basic Concepts" were added to the menu to help users reading about things they might need to start when using GIMP.

The manual has a few more interesting topics where I'd like to add links to. So I've two questions:

Since it's a script-fu script, I'd like to know if that is going to be migrated to an XML menu file?

Unfortunately the menu is ordered alphabetically, which for the translated version looks kind of messed up. At first putting numbers in front on the menu entries came to my mind, which seems like a bad workaround on another thought. Is it possible to have some kind of ordering. Though probably problematic if it should stay the same with all the translations of the menu.

Cheers,

Sven Neumann
2008-07-06 11:26:29 UTC (over 16 years ago)

Menus under Help/User Manual

Hi,

On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 10:41 +0200, Roman Joost wrote:

I was about going through the pointers we added to the interesting topics of the manual. Those links like "Basic Concepts" were added to the menu to help users reading about things they might need to start when using GIMP.

Long term we would rather like to get rid of this menu entirely. IMO it would be much better if we included links to the user manual in the GIMP tips. We have some plans for GIMP 2.8 to improve the tips system and to put it into a more prominent location (the empty image window).

The manual has a few more interesting topics where I'd like to add links to. So I've two questions:

Since it's a script-fu script, I'd like to know if that is going to be migrated to an XML menu file?

It's a script because that was the simplest solution. Making it an XML file would require writing a plug-in that parses this file and installs the menu items.

Unfortunately the menu is ordered alphabetically, which for the translated version looks kind of messed up. At first putting numbers in front on the menu entries came to my mind, which seems like a bad workaround on another thought. Is it possible to have some kind of ordering. Though probably problematic if it should stay the same with all the translations of the menu.

Plug-in menu entries are sorted alphabetically and plug-ins can't do anything about that ordering. Why does this look messed up for translated versions?

Sven