On 2014-03-03 10:01 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Reinhardt Christiansen
<rhino...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
How do I get back to where I'm getting the toolbox automatically upon
opening GIMP and the supporting dialogs also appear when you click on the
relevant tool?
1 - the <Tab> key will toggle visibility of your toolbox and the
dockable dialogs.
2 - look under Windows->Dockable Dialogs. You will find the tool
options, brushes etc. there. Depending on how long ago you closed
them, you may find them under Windows->Recently Closed Docks.
3 - you might want to try Single Window Mode. This is also under the
main 'Windows' menu. This makes all the tools and dockables into one
solid window, instead of all the little floating windows.
I'm sorry but I'm not getting the behaviour you're describing. When I
launched GIMP and tried the Tab key, nothing happened. I did find the
tool options, brushes, etc. under Dockable Dialogs. Single Window Mode
did NOT put the dockables together with the tools all in one window; I
got the tools but not the dockable dialogs. (I was able to drag
individual dockable dialogs over to the area under the tools but I still
didn't see where I could choose between background, foreground and
pattern for the Paint tool.
So I uninstalled GIMP 2.8.2 and installed 2.8.10 - and found that it
looks exactly the same thing as it did before the uninstall/reinstall.
What is the deal here? Has this become the way these things will appear
going forward? Maybe I didn't click on something to cause this after all
and the problem began when I installed GIMP 2.8.x. I've forgotten now as
it was several months ago and I don't use GIMP that frequently.
If this is the way it is going to be and I can't go back to the old way,
how on earth do I choose a pattern for the Paint dialog, rather than a
foreground or background color? That's far from the only thing I want to
be able to do but it's certainly one of the things that I don't know how
to do in this new approach. And how do I remove one of the dockable
dialogs from the area underneath the selection tools? I can add one
easily enough but don't see any way to remove one that I don't really
need. Oh, hold on, I think I got it. If I click on the tiny "Configure
this tab" icon, I can detach the tab, then close it. But I can't delete
the last tab and I can't re-add the dock with the other tabs; I have to
put them in a new dialog....
This is NOT making my day, at least not in a good way. This is really
unintuitive. I never had any problems with the old way of doing things;
it was simple and straight-forward. Once again, developers go ahead and
do something that THEY think is an improvement but don't let happy users
keep the old way that suited them.... Argggghhhh!
Let me emphasize that my issue is not with Chris who tried to help but
with whoever decided to change the old way of doing things and
consequently made something tedious and mysterious out of something that
had been straight-forward.
--
Rhino
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