Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-14 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 13 Feb, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: This can be dangerous; you can get a resizing loop if your code isn't carefully written. Window managers can refuse to accept a client resize request or can modify it, which could result in a duel between GIMP and the window manager as the two fight over

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-13 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:50:07 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hm, couldn't we use the event handling system to automatically resize the toolbox to a new good value on every resize event: If you enlarge the toolbox the window size automatically snaps on the next convenient size and vice

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-13 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:21:39 -0500 (EST), Glyph Lefkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Rather than doing this, wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing that terminals do, I.E. make the window resizable by char cells rather than pixels? I like the fact that I can resize the window as I work,

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-11 Thread Tor Lillqvist
One suggestion would be to not have the toolbox user-resizeable via the window manager at all, but to have in the Preferences a setting where you use a spinbutton to set the number of columns. If you start from, say, three columns, and keep increasing the number, at the point where the number of

An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-10 Thread Raphael Quinet
Here is an interesting experiment for those who do not understand what the problem is with the "Help" item in the toolbox: - start Gimp - resize the toolbox so that all tools are on a single column (approx. 30 x 750 pixels) - try to open a new image, or to do anything useful The problem is

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-10 Thread Daniele Medri
Here is an interesting experiment for those who do not understand what the problem is with the "Help" item in the toolbox: - start Gimp - resize the toolbox so that all tools are on a single column (approx. 30 x 750 pixels) - try to open a new image, or to do anything useful about

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-10 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, "Daniele Medri" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: about Toolbox resizeble. Flexibility is ok.. but some time create problems. Why don't set fixed sizes x*y to cover all the dimension of toolbar? This could be usefull to have right dimension and good rappresentation.

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-10 Thread Jon Winters
I'll try your technique but shouldn't the toolbox be coded so that all parts are visible all the time? End users are going to be frightned if they resize the toolbox using the corner of the window like they would with anything else and parts start dissappearing. To make matters worse, I messed

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-10 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Jon Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ^ You seem to have a problem with the date on your computer. :-) I've had problems with the toolbox ever since it became re-sizable. I can size it exactly the way I want it, three vertical rows of tools with

Re: [gimp-devel] Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-10 Thread Sven Neumann
I've had problems with the toolbox ever since it became re-sizable. I can size it exactly the way I want it, three vertical rows of tools with colors, brushes, patterns, and gradients below but the brushes, patterns, and gradients are always pushed outside the window, invisible and

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-10 Thread Daniel . Egger
On 10 Feb, Raphael Quinet wrote: Flexibility is ok.. but some time create problems. Why don't set fixed sizes x*y to cover all the dimension of toolbar? This could be usefull to have right dimension and good rappresentation. Unfortunately, this is not so simple. Constraining the

Re: An experiment (was Re: Move help menu item...)

2000-02-10 Thread Manish Singh
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 10:29:56AM -0500, Zach Beane - MINT wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:09:42AM -0600, Jon Winters wrote: I've had problems with the toolbox ever since it became re-sizable. I can size it exactly the way I want it, three vertical rows of tools with colors,