Hi, On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 18:19 +0200, Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: > There are currently two options to open a file when other image window > already exists: to open it via main GIMP window or to do it via image > window. They are rather equal from the user's POV and the choice > (unconscious) depends on the currently active window (at least for me). > > But the result differs: in case of main window menu the file cursor > remains at the position of the last opened file. It is very convenient. > In case of image window the cursor is "lost" and no file is selected. > Even more, trying to open a file via main menu would have the same > result - the cursor is already lost. The behaviour with GTK+ 2.10 (which is what we are going to depend on for GIMP 2.4) is even different from that. No file is ever selected. What you are seeing here is probably a bug in GTK+. In any way it's certainly not intentional behavior. So please have a look at the code and check what GIMP is actually doing. If there's an inconsistency in the GIMP code, we need to fix it there. If it's a GTK+ bug, we should make sure that it gets reported with a reproducable test case. > I think it is a bug and would suggest the next behavior in case of > opening a file via image menu: > 1. the file cursor is set to the last file opened in the session as > currently is done via the menu from GIMP main window. > 2. the file cursor is set to the current file from the window with the > image (even if it is opened from a directory other than the last one) if > it isn't a new file. The result of the second option would become equal > to the first one if only one image is opened simultaneously. That's exactly what the code is trying to do, IIRC. > The file selection behavior could be based on personal preferences (in > settings). Definitely not. The file selection dialogs should simply behave correctly. There is no need to ask the user for a decision here. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
