The toolbox

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  • 'more lightweight', trimmer buttons
  • limit the buttons
  • to improve the ease of use we should implement some visual separation of tool groups (like 3px space). no collapsing or labelling thou
  • toolbox should become an inspector, not another window (read analysis on windows/toolbox/inspectors )
  • Icons in the Toolbox improvement:
    • it should be more easy (quick) to recognize and identify an icon
    • they should have strong contours, be good metaphors, differentiated by colours
    • Pen and Pencil have almost the same angle and colour, at least the colour should be different
    • Dodge/burn tool and Eraser need better icons which depict the actual effect
    • Levels, Curves, Threshold should have icons representing their meaning & function, not by icons of their dialog window
    • unless one Transformation tool is not implemented, all the transformation tools should have better icons, to distinguish one from another more easy
    • Ink tool would be better represented by an icon of a nib, which is the essence of the tool;
    • Measure icon tool should have less details; old one was better (look at www.docs.gimp.org )