Modern desktops

Posted Apr 14, 2011 23:25 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
In reply to: Modern desktops by me@jasonclinton.com
Parent article: Ubuntu reaffirms Unity plan for 11.04

Gimp has a problem with FFM.
If you have two images open and the layers dialog as well, then the layers dialog shows the layers for the focused image.
So if, as I move the mouse from the image I am working on to the layers dialogue, it passes over a different gimp image window, the layers dialog suddenly changes to the 'wrong' window.

I think I could probably get used to click-to-focus - after all it is what we use and expect for panes in a window (i.e. to type in the URL bar I have to click there, not just move my mouse there). However what I couldn't get used to is "click raises window" which often seems to accompany "click to focus".

Modern desktops

Posted Apr 17, 2011 0:33 UTC (Sun) by speedster1 (guest, #8143) [Link]

Positioning your gimp windows carefully (e.g. image windows side-by-side, layers dialog below both) is a small price to pay for a focus selection policy that is quite superior for most tasks!