On 12/5/06, Sven Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 11:13 -0500, Ben Walker wrote: > > > There are no settings/plugins in GIMP (to my knowledge) that > > provide either a reliable MDI interface or a truly usable SDI > > interface. New settings recently added like "transient windows" have > > quirks, and "always on top" is not a good alternative either. I > > understand that developers are saying (I'm sure justifiably) that > > Windows is the real problem. Be that as it may, on Windows, GIMP does > > not achieve a truly usable interface. > > You are perfectly right here. The problem is however that we don't have > much, if any, active developers that contribute Win32 specific code to > GTK+ and GIMP that would address this problem. There is almost no > contributions from Windows users, but lots of complaints. Now tell me > why we should even care about them? > > We would accept patches. There is a lot to do to improve the user > experience on the Windows platform. Same holds true for Mac OS X. But > unless there's active contributions, this isn't going to change. No > matter how loud the complaints are. > > > Sven > >
If there was an option in Gimp to dock the windows so that they function as one, that would solve the problem. Ie - bring one to the front, they all come to the front. I don't know about Win32, as I'm on Linux, but that's one feature that I have yet to discover. -- Anthony Ettinger phone: 408-656-2473 resume: http://chovy.dyndns.org/resume.html Currently available for contract work blog: http://www.chovy.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
