To SorinN: I use Windows (Vista 64 bit and XP) and I only have Gimp 2.6.7 so far which is the one that is available for Windows now, if Gimp 2.7 creates a single entry in the taskbar and all the Windows minimize when you minimize one that's great for me, the multiple windows thing and being able to put them anywhere you want doesn't bother me, like I said it's just that I think that a single entry in the task bar becomes much easier to manage in a multi application workflow. Again if Gimp 2.7 fixes this that will be great.
In another Gimp related issue, in mi new Windows Vista machine Gimp 2.6.7 crashes the graphic card driver a lot when I activate a selection markee. When I activate a selection markee the graphics driver starts to have problems and starts to flicker and shortly after that the Nvidia cards reports to me that the graphics system has crashed and that it has been recovered. Luckily this recovery system seems to be pretty solid in my graphics card system otherwise I would have a lot of Vista crashes because of this. I Have Windows Vista Ultimate 64 Bit running in a Intel core i7 CPU and two Evga 260 GTX graphic cards running in SLI mode with 12 gigas of DDR3 memory, when I first installed Gimp in this machine it crashed a lot when I tried to use color correction tools like Brighness and Contrast adjustments, as soon as I tried to use one of those Gimp crashed but when it was updated to version 2.6.7 that was totally fixed (that bug was giving a lot of people problems cause I found out online) but I still have the selection markee issue that makes the graphic system unstable quickly, any ideas about what could be causing this? In my XP machines it works just fine. >"I personally, deffinitely prefer the Gimp being a program that always shows >as a single entry in the taskbar that's really my main concern, it's just >easier to manage single entry programs with a multiple applications workflow." > > >But GIMP 2.7 solve that. Maybe you don't use 2.7. A single entry in >taskbar and when the canvas window is minimized all other utility >windows are minimized too. > > >2009/9/6 Ramon Miranda <mirandagrap...@gmail.com>: >> David G said >>>always opened like this and Gimp already has the ability to save it's >>> layout too. Photoshop allowed this >>>perfectly and still was a single window program. >> >> i would like to have also the ability so save my workspace and change >> "inside" the gimp from. for example. paint workspace to a "photoretouch" >> space . instead having different sessionrc and quiting gimp to change the >> workspace. i hope you will understand me. >> >> 2009/9/6 David G. <for...@gimpusers.com> >>> >>> >I like modular structures becouse they allows more custom changes. So >>> > this >>> >way you can change your layout of panels. But if all it would be in a >>> single >>> >window , ithink lot of users would thanks that. becouse i hear a lot..." >>> >Gimp is nice , but his gui is ugly and uncomfortable.i don?t like to see >>> > a >>> >lot of panels flying through my desktop" >>> > >>> >Lets give it a try to a single window mode >>> > >>> >2009/9/5 Martin Nordholts <ense...@gmail.com> >>> > >>> >> On 09/05/2009 06:22 PM, Richard Nespithal wrote: >>> >> >> A single-window mode would also turn 2.8 into a remarkable release >>> >> > is it possible, to switch back to multi-window mode in 2.8? >>> >> >>> >> That is not really relevant to this thread. >>> >> (But yes of course it will be possible.) >>> >> >>> >> / Martin >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> >>> >> My GIMP Blog: >>> >> http://www.chromecode.com/ >>> >> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Gimp-developer mailing list >>> >> Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >>> >> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> >>> I don't know why people mention so much that if you create a single >>> window >>> Gimp that that it will not allow you to put your tools in a second monitor >>> because I used Photoshop also many times and despite it being a single >>> window >>> program it allows you to put the toolbox and the parameter windows (or at >>> least it did in some older versions) in a separate monitor and leave the >>> main >>> program window all for editing pictures if that's what people wanted. You >>> coul >>> also save the workspace layout so Photoshop always opened like this and >>> Gimp >>> already has the ability to save it's layout too. Photoshop allowed this >>> perfectly and still was a single window program. >>> >>> If that's the concern of people then perhaps Gimp should become a single >>> windows program that allows this, that allows you to put the toolbox and >>> the >>> right utilities window in a separate monitor while still preserving a >>> single >>> box or entry in the taskbar. In my opinion having a single entry in the >>> taskbar is much better because it's far less messy, the biggest problem >>> with >>> the multiple entries interface is that some people seem to think that >>> everybody opens Gimp only here and there and ocasioanlly and they are not >>> thinking of the profesional users that use Gimp seriously (and yes it is a >>> powerfull program already and it can be used seriously) and some people >>> seem >>> to be forgetting that some people like me for example many, many times >>> have >>> several windows and applications running simultaneously and when I mean >>> several I mean a lot, I find myself many times with 10 or 12 aplications >>> and/or utilities or more open at the same time (with todays memorys and >>> CPU >>> power this is very possible and more common than some people think) and >>> switching among them and believe me this is not uncommon for professional >>> artists that are jumping from 3D to illustration to bitmap editor, video >>> editing, Flash and/or a web page layout program or even more programs back >>> and >>> fort like a carrousel. In todays workflow you can find many users that >>> work >>> just like that instead of the persons that just open a bitmap editor >>> ocasionally and the issue is that when you have a lot of windows of >>> different >>> programs open at the same time a program like Gimp can become a mess in >>> the >>> task bar in MS Windows or even in other Operating Systems. Sometimes when >>> I'm >>> working like that the taskbar is so full that it creates a second entry >>> line >>> and you have to switch between the first line of items or entries in the >>> task >>> bar and the secong and with Gimps it gets sort of confusing or anoying in >>> that >>> situation and I use Blender too which creates a second window for the >>> command >>> window and many times a third windows for the rendering window and then >>> you >>> get a mess. Programs that have a single entry in the task bar are far >>> better >>> for this type of workflow, they are easier to manage. >>> >>> Maybe the Gimp team should make a survey to see how many people prefer the >>> single entry or single window program over the multiple ones. This issue >>> of >>> too many windows have been a source of complain of many, many Gimp users >>> for >>> long years and I think that it would be foolhardy to ignore and at the >>> very >>> least the Gimp team should consider making a survey to see how many people >>> prefer the single window interface but remember what I told you at first >>> about >>> being able to put the toolbox pane and the right pane in other monitors >>> despite the program being single window or single entry program. >>> >>> I think that part of the confussion comes precisely from the fact that the >>> issue of being a single window program and a program that has a single >>> entry >>> in the task bar are really two separate things. >>> >>> I personally, deffinitely prefer the Gimp being a program that always >>> shows >>> as a single entry in the taskbar that's really my main concern, it's just >>> easier to manage single entry programs with a multiple applications >>> workflow. >>> >>> -- >>> David G. (via www.gimpusers.com) >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gimp-developer mailing list >>> Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >>> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >> >> >> >> -- >> _______________________________________ >> Ramon Miranda >> http://ramonmirandavisualart.blogspot.com >> http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gimp-developer mailing list >> Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >> >> > > > > -- David G. (via www.gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
