Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica) [LWN.net]

Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica)

Posted Feb 7, 2010 10:00 UTC (Sun) by asherringham (subscriber, #33251)
Parent article: Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy (ars technica)

This is great. I'm looking forward to being able to use this new single-window mode. The multiple floating windows is OK (you get used to it) but it can be a pain finding and switching between all of them.

Some people I know absolutely *hate* gimp because of this.

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Hate and love

Posted Feb 9, 2010 7:38 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

I don't hate GIMP: it's a very capable piece of free software. But I abhor having to use it. A friend once called GIMP's windows "schizophrenic" and he was not far off. As another poster said, the main window now does not disappear, but it stays there just to hold the menu! While the palettes just stay there taking space idly.

Now I don't have to put GIMP in its own virtual desktop, and best of all: I don't have to move the little palettes away every time I resize the darn main window. The deepest mystery to me is why they didn't do this 10 years ago when people started requesting it. It's a mystery even though I was subscribed to the dev mailing list for a couple of years (until I was banned for complaining about this and other things, probably deserving it). Now I think that we can win the desktop if we just keep our ears open all the time.