Work in progress on windows layouts

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Problem statement

We've been carrying more or less the same default layout of GIMP's main window for well over a decade. However, we now ship GIMP with tools grouped by default, which begs for reviewing the layout.

Moreover, there have been multiple requests to introduce workflow-specific named layouts finetuned for commons tasks like digital painting, digital photography etc. with an ability to create your own named layouts.

Research

To collect initial data, we asked users on social media to submit customized window layouts and explain 1) what is their main usecase for GIMP, 2) why they customized the layout like that.

Resulted submissions (however few) can be categorized as follows:

  • General editing
  • Layer compositions
  • Graphic design
  • Drawing and painting
  • Photography
  • Web design
  • 3D-related: texturing, UV etc.

Below is the gallery. Please note that while all users named primary tasks, not everyone submitted more information than that.

General editing

User kirill_rrr: "I only do very basic and general editing, I don't need much from GIMP".

Lor-kirill rrr.png

User Brian00298905: "Image manipulation."

Twitter-Brian00298905-2.jpg

Layer compositions

Graphic design

Drawing and painting

Photography

Web design

3D-related: texturing, UV etc.

Proposal

TO BE DONE