On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > Good to know; so let me refine: is there ANYTHING in the move to > single window which would not be achieved by > > a) restricting the maximal size of image window to the gap between > two toolboxes; and > > b) making z-order changes syncronized between the main window and > toolboxes? > IMHO the move to a single image window with dockables would solve quite a lot of interoperability problems. For example there are plenty of broken window managers out there. Relying on them (WM developers) getting it right in the end for the GIMP is proving to be a long wait. As desktop environments go the window managers that work with the GIMP as intended tend OTOH to be the ones that don't play well with KDE for example (if you even have the choice, which you haven't really in KDE4). Oh and windows is a beast that isn't handled easily as well - the window manager there sucks at managing applications that consist of multiple single windows that don't have a proper native inheritance structure - which places the problem either into the GTK+ ballpark (a vital library once created to suit GIMP but which now is driven by people with their own development goals which don't necessarily match the GIMP requirements any longer) or forces the GIMP developers to avoid this area in the long run. Besides that there are things like split layer views that I'd like to see - for example editing a layer mask side by side the image area it belongs to which IMHO are next to impossible with the current multi window arrangement. -- mfg Karl Günter _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
