[Repost after a list resurrection] I've read through the discussion of (a possibility of) a single-window GIMP interface. Both on the mailing list, and on http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/2009/09/gimp-single-mode.html However, I do not see how much this would affect the (AFAIK) main complaint about multi-window GIMP: that having several windows with several possibilities of what is focused requires many extraneous mouse clicks and/or keypresses. When the windows are merged into one, STILL only one of subwindows has a focus? So how does this improves the current nightmares (e.g., keyboard shortcuts not working - especially when most needed ;-)? [Myself, I do not use PhotoShop, but what I saw is people who use both PS and GIMP say that PS allows about 3x times quickier UI interaction - in large respect due to no need to "fix mis-focus".] I mean here the [rare?] cases when GIMP caught up with particular features of PS, so one can compare not feature sets, but how convenient is it to perform the operations... And if a solution to this problem is found, why would not it "work" with multi-window interface too? Or is the improvement ONLY in the fact that utility windows will never obscure the image? ======================================================= BTW, if one considers single-window interface as "just a fix for UI interaction slowness", I see no problem with editing multiple files: just have a "single-window interface" open for each of them. If this turns out to be important: to make things take less screen space, one could allow utility docks to "shrink" on unfocussed windows... Yours, Ilya _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
