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Single-window modeSingle-window modePosted May 7, 2012 14:52 UTC (Mon) by mikemol (subscriber, #83507)Parent article: A preview of GIMP 2.8
I loathe the desktop model, and love tiling window managers. Gimp's toolbar model has always been a thorn in my side.
I really don't get why applications such as Gimp or VS2010 can't manage tear-away toolbars and documents, and allow those torn-away to be fully managed by the system window manager. (Heck, even VS2010 fails on this front, which becomes critically clear when you try doing anything fancy in multimon setups)
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Single-window mode Posted May 7, 2012 15:17 UTC (Mon) by rwst (guest, #84121) [Link]
> I really don't get why applications such as Gimp or VS2010 can't manage tear-away toolbars and documents, and allow those torn-away to be fully managed by the system window manager.
There is something to it when people say linuxers don't care about the UI. Of course, a generalization, as e.g. inkscape has tearable bars. But when we tried to redesign the whole UI, the sheer size of the code base didn't allow for big refactoring. OTOH, branching the code base by a single coder would have created a multi-year endeavour---just for the UI?
So, it's the casualty of doing coding in Linux, the missing time for big things, and the lack of professional (= paid) leadership, all a bit.
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