In general, we see that contributors are trying to solve the following problems:
- maximise screen area for the image, get some elbow room;
- too many GIMP items in the taskbar;
- what to do when there is no image open, keep the GIMP instance alive;
- a significant group of contributors are perceiving overlapping toolbox, image, and dialog windows as chaotic and try to get everything organised in a single plane with a tiled interface;
- where to put the tool options? taken from the toolbox, they are able to make the toolbox look the way they want: smaller and less disturbing;
- people want to really just work on an image and make the dialogs as much non-distractive as possible, they try to make dialogs appear on demand; we would like to point out that current and previous versions of GIMP hide/show all dialogs when the tab key is pressed;
- several different solutions for filter preview (bigger and faster previews);
- quite a few contributors show hierarchy or folders for layers in their mock-ups;
- some contributions try to give quicker access to the keyboard shortcuts configuration;
- some contributions point out the need to scroll the image beyond the image border.
- the idea for a kind of interaction where on-demand the most important UI could appear right under the mouse pointer;
- the idea of easily setting up different workspaces for the different tasks a given user performs with GIMP.
