Some UI nitpicks

[Bart Szyszka]

> Krayon has a "sidebar" on the right that contains color editors, brush 
> pickers, layer controls, etc, all laid out sensibly (to my eye). There is a 
> toolbar on the top, and a tools toolbar on the left. The rest of the window 
> is devoted to the image, tabs to switch between multiple images, and a 
> statusbar.
Do you guys have a screenshot of this sidebar? What if the panels don't
fill the entire right edge of the screen? Is there just unusable gray space
extending the sidebar or could I for example place a smaller image in that
space that I might want to use for reference. I made an example image
in Photoshop:
http://www195.pair.com/gigabee/extras/photoshop-screenspace.png

> One thing that does concern me (and was argued to death several months ago) 
> are the gradient dialogs. Currently these open up in a fake dialog/mdi box, 
> very similar to the horrible way that StarOffice has its dialogs. They don't 
> take up screen real estate, but they're in front of the image. And since they 
> aren't real dialogs, you can't move them off of the main window. In my 
> opinion they should be moved to the side bar. Perhaps a panel that is 
> sensitive to which tool is selected.
Photoshop has an 'Options' tab that changes depending on what tool is selected.
If the Gradient tool is selected, you'd see the options for the gradient tool. If
the text tool is selected, you'd see the options for the text tool. Gimp has a
seperate "dialog" box for the options of a tool and I find that extremely annoying
as the optoins should be a panel in the program too (just like in Photoshop).

- Bart