When more images are opened, drag and drop to open an image works unintuitive + dead zones
Operating System: Windows 10 Home, GIMP 2.10.28
Description of the feature
When there are already one or more images opened and you drag and drop another image into GIMP, the drop zones are unintuitive and there is no option dialog to "open as new image / add as layer".
See below, when dragging an image file into GIMP to open it, you have to drag it specifically onto the tools icons(?) which is unintuitive imho.
You can also drag it onto the existing image and it immediately opens as a new layer, which in half of the cases is not what you want, I would have expected a dialog with two options "Open as image / add as layer".
If you drag it onto the layers tab it opens as a new layer, which kind of makes sense I guess. But there also are two "dead zones", where you can drop the file but just nothing happens. The dead zones at the top (C) and below tool icons (D) I would have expected that it would just open as image.
See result of each drop zone below
imho it would easier for the end-users (and also simpler for the GIMP developers?) to just have the entire GIMP window be one drop zone, and then when an image is already opened show a dialog with two options
- Open as new image
- Add as layer (to the currently selected image)
Or if there is no image open yet, no dialog and just open as image.
Use cases
It may seem like a nitpicky little thing, but for on-boarding new users to GIMP these type of quality-of-life features really matter. Lots of users rely on drag and drop to open files, it's easy and straight forward. I think it would help in making GIMP more user-friendly.