Hi, On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 20:33 +0200, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > It already shares focus and minimising with the image window. > It being a semi-separate window is only good for moving it. > Moving it is only good for getting to see the whole canvas. > If it would not cover any part of the canvas, there would be > no need to move it. If there's never a need to move it, it > shouldn't be a semi-separate window. Well, you have overlooked the main problem here. If you add user interface elements to the image window, then these will cover parts of the canvas and there will be no way to unobscure the covered parts. So if you think that it may be important that the user has a chance to check the content of the image window, then a popup dialog is the only way to go. Your proposal makes sense for some informational messages though. Things such as the load plug-in informing you that it had to transform the image from a different colorspace or that it wasn't able to interpret some tags in the image file. Such messages could be nicely presented at the top of the image window and this would probably be less annoying than using a popup dialog for it. I suggested this a while ago already but I found that it isn't implementable without changes to the plug-in message API. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
