If you're one of those who have gone to all the effort (and pain) of building the new gimp2 (2.6.1) port here's a few work-arounds for a big problem with the Toolbar and other "dock" windows in the program.
You can see the problem on startup of the application by just going to the Toolbar which is forced to always be on top of any other windows. When you hover over an item, the corresponding tool tip is displayed behind the Toolbar window and obscured by it. Similarly, clicking on a tool property button (such as Brush on the Paintbrush Tool) produces a popup window that is again behind and obscured by the Toolbar window. This is true for other "dock" windows as well (not the main image window). For more details, see my bug report at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556337. This behavior can be changed in one of two ways: 1) To change this for an individual user, go to Edit->Preferences->Window Management and under Window Manager Hints set both "Hint for the toolbox" and "Hint for other docks" to Normal window instead of Utility window. or 2) To change this globally for all users on your system, add the following lines (toolbox-window-hint normal) (dock-window-hint normal) to the end of the GIMP global preference file ${prefix}/etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc where ${prefix} is the MacPorts installation prefix (typically /opt/local) In either case you need to restart GIMP for the changes to take effect. The tool tips, child menus and pop-up windows will display in front of the dock windows so you can actually see and use them. I intend to modify the gimp2 port to preset these preferences but I don't intend to increment the revision number for this (unless there is an outpouring of demand) as it doesn't seem appropriate to force a rebuild of the entire program for something that can be handled much easier otherwise. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
