On Feb 20, 2008 11:07 AM, <buralex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > peter sikking <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said on Feb 19, 2008 13:46 -0500 (in > part): > > > You missed one of the mails in this thread then. If we use this window > > as a DND target, where should our users drop images when it is not > > there? > > I think the remaining question is: when GIMP is not the foreground > application (toolbox and inspectors hidden, as they should) where > can users d+d files apart from on the taskbar icon? > I have Windows only experience (not Linux or Mac) so maybe I'm missing > something here ... > > In Windows D'n'D, for a non-visible application works "everywhere" as drag > to taskbar button which brings that application to foreground. User (still > w/o releasing mouse button) then drags to to window which has just been > brought to foreground and releases. > > This works now with current Gimp whether there is an image open or not so > long as the first bring to foreground is done to the Gimp toolbox window. > > So wrt. remaining question: "where can users d+d files apart from on the > taskbar icon?" . Why is there any need for anything else? That's how Windows > user expect ALL applications to behave. > Regards ... Alec -- buralex-gmail There is no guarantee that there will be any taskbar at all. On linux, there are plenty of WM's that either provide a taskbar that is not suitable to implement your described behaviour, or no taskbar at all ( i use one of these myself, DWM (http://www.suckless.org/wiki/dwm)). IMO taskbars are a kludge, and it is a mistake for an application to *depend* on them for basic usability. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
