ccrisis@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I was directed here for suggesting features. If this is the wrong place, I apologize.
When selecting tabs with a tablet, sometimes (often) there is accidental dragging and the tab ends up being pulled into it's own window. It's a big annoyance in my case, maybe other tablet users as well. I suggest an option to lock these.

D.R.

Hello

It doesn't sound like a bad idea, but at the same time it feels like a hack and that the core problem is something else. If this was to be added though, it is necessary to sort out how to access this functionality in a discoverable way.

Regards, Martin Nordholts

Hi,

On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 19:43 -0600, ccrisis@gmail.com wrote:

I was directed here for suggesting features. If this is the wrong place, I apologize.
When selecting tabs with a tablet, sometimes (often) there is accidental dragging and the tab ends up being pulled into it's own window. It's a big annoyance in my case, maybe other tablet users as well. I suggest an option to lock these.

Have you tried to increase the gtk-dnd-drag-threshold? It's a GtkSetting that you can adjust in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.

Sven

On Sun, 18 May 2008 14:45:52 +0200 Martin Nordholts wrote:

It doesn't sound like a bad idea, but at the same time it feels like a hack and that the core problem is something else. If this was to be added though, it is necessary to sort out how to access this functionality in a discoverable way.

I suffer from the same problem from time to time. I'd love to see an option to "lock" the windows. I have a setup that works for me and that I don't change, and it'd be good to be able to lock that down. Not sure if that would need to be on the GTK side, or the GIMP side though.

Hi :)

ccrisis@gmail.com wrote:

I did that now. While it does help a bit, I still think locking them would be ideal, at least to a user. I did some rough testing with a value of 100 and it happened anyways when working hurriedly across different tabs. I can't speak for others, but knowing they are locked would be preferable in my case.

Yup, I find I accidentally move palettes out of the window too - so an option to lock a dock full of tabs would make my life easier. What I'd also like, since I'm in WishList mode, is to be able to lock a UI "State" - so that if a co-worker comes along, uses GIMP and then closes all my windows, not just the toolbox, they'll come back the way I like them next time I run GIMP. Currently, whenever that happens I have to spend a few minutes adding tabs to a new dock window.

All the best, --
Alastair M. Robinson

Hi again - replying to myself,,,

...so that if a co-worker comes along, uses GIMP and then closes all my windows, not just the toolbox, they'll come back the way I like them next time I run GIMP.

And I've just spotted how to do this - disable "Save window positions on exit", and click the "Save Window Positions Now" button - how I've failed to spot those for so long I don't know!

All the best, --
Alastair M. Robinson

Hi,

On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 17:15 -0600, ccrisis@gmail.com wrote:

I did that now. While it does help a bit, I still think locking them would be ideal, at least to a user.

I am about to add some code in SVN that allows you to lock individual tabs in their docks. Pretty similar to the "Lock To Panel" feature in the GNOME panel.

A preliminary patch with working UI but missing lock functionality is at http://sven.gimp.org/misc/gimp-dockable-lock.diff

Sven

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 20:32 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:

A preliminary patch with working UI but missing lock functionality is at http://sven.gimp.org/misc/gimp-dockable-lock.diff

The full implementation is now in SVN trunk. Please test it if you can.

Sven