Hi,
GIMP does all the right things (and so, for example, it works as you'd expect on Linux). If it still does not behave correctly, this is a problem with GTK+.

I think first you should try GIMP 2.5 if you can. Some things changed since 2.4 regarding this issue; it's possible that 2.5 may solve your problem.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:14 PM, KishoreKumar Bairi wrote:

want to use the original GIMP.(reason, not very clear).

GIMPSHOP is just an abomination, that use a 4 years old gimp codebase and which isn't supported by anyone.By using GIMPSHOP , you won't be able to follow any ps tutorial nor any gimp tutorial and you won't have support anywhere.

I've found this plugin named "deweirdifyer" which serves my purpose. But it seems that plugin is deprecated and not supported with newer versions of Gimp any more.

KishoreKumar Bairi wrote:

Hello folks,

I recently migrated from Photoshop to Gimp. Though GIMP is offering powerful functionalities, its way of opening each window of each image is bugging me a lot. My entire taskbar is filled up with GIMP windows.I'm really looking forward to see all gimp images in single Gimp window.

No, no, no, and no! I've been using GIMP for a good number of years now and like the current paradigm. As far as I'm concerned, huge, monolithic, windows full of clutter I don't need at the moment not only waste screen space but make it just that much more difficult to get to the operations I /do/ need at the moment.

It would be nice to change this, or atleast add an option for the user to select the style of interface.

As an option, sure, but not as the only paradigm.

I suspect the GIMP folk would appreciate your contribution in writing that option. :-)

Some body told me about GIMPSHOP in #gimp IRC. Though it offers this interface, I want to use the original GIMP.(reason, not very clear).

Regards, KishoreKumar Bairi.
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:52:15 -0400 From: Chris Moller

KishoreKumar Bairi wrote: > Hello folks,
>
> I recently migrated from Photoshop to Gimp. Though GIMP is offering > powerful functionalities, its way of opening each window of each image > is bugging me a lot. My entire taskbar is filled up with GIMP > windows.I'm really looking forward to see all gimp images in single > Gimp window.

No, no, no, and no! I've been using GIMP for a good number of years now and like the current paradigm. As far as I'm concerned, huge, monolithic, windows full of clutter I don't need at the moment not only waste screen space but make it just that much more difficult to get to the operations I /do/ need at the moment.

For the original poster, if the issue is the task bar filling up, you might check if your window manager offers an option to group related windows together. KDE does, but I don't know if GNOME does.

Personally, I find this kind of application-focused (as opposed to document-focused) paradigm completely unusable. For starters, I don't simply work with GIMP and nothing else; I have a lot of different things I'm doing that I switch between by just moving the mouse around (typically three emacs windows, several xterms, and a browser). If GIMP is doing a long-running filter I'll go and do something else, or maybe I'll just momentarily switch off for whatever reason of my own. A single application window hides everything else. Yes, I do use multiple desktops, and no, I don't want to confine each application to its own desktop. Usually I stick things on desktops based on what I'm doing, not based on application (so typically my primary desktop will be email and browser, #2 is where I stick Gutenprint development, and so forth).

The other problem is that each application then becomes a mini-window manager, with different settings than my screen window manager. I use focus strictly follows mouse, with no autoraise, and I normally use keybindings (alt-f1 to raise, alt-f2 to lower, alt-f3 to minimize). Most applications that do this seem to follow a click-to-raise-and-focus paradigm which is the exact opposite of how I like to work. In addition, it's impossible for this kind of MDI interface to use the same keybindings to manipulate windows, because the screen window manager keeps them for its own use.

David Gowers wrote:

Hi,
GIMP does all the right things (and so, for example, it works as you'd expect on Linux).ERRR... Not on Linux. It is dependent on a VM. I tested kwin, compiz and

metacity, the three most common VMs on Linux today. Exactly *one* VM of those handles the hints as expected and that is metacity, the gnome VM. So basically its gnome users without any desktop effects that are seeing the change. Everybody else(including me, a KDE user) can suck it up until their VM supports the window hints as expected by GTK+/GIMP. Which with KDE 3.x not being developed any more and KDE 4.1 being too raw is an unknown time in the future for kwin.

-- Alexia

P.S No, I'm not whining, just correcting an inaccuracy. P.S.S No, changing a DE is not a solution. P.S.S.S Sorry David, I intended to send it to the list not just to you...

Alexia Death wrote:

P.S No, I'm not whining, just correcting an inaccuracy. P.S.S No, changing a DE is not a solution. P.S.S.S Sorry David, I intended to send it to the list not just to you...

It should be, e.g.,

P.P.P.S. Sorry...

for "Post-post-post-script,"not

P.S.S.S. Sorry...

which would be "Post-script-script-script," for which a case might be made in bash or some such language, but not in English.

Sorry, Chris Moller, Language Cop to the Programming World

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:55 AM, KishoreKumar Bairi wrote:

Hello folks,

I recently migrated from Photoshop to Gimp. Though GIMP is offering powerful functionalities, its way of opening each window of each image is bugging me a lot. My entire taskbar is filled up with GIMP windows.I'm really looking forward to see all gimp images in single Gimp window. It would be nice to change this, or atleast add an option for the user to select the style of interface.

The Gimp-Team is working on an UI-Change with User-Interface-Experts. It will not become an window in window interface but something better. ;) The first things will be visible in the next release (2.6) but that's just the beginning. So the Gimp devellopers know the problem and are looking for solutions.

Regards, Tobias

P.S. Just copying Photoshop is not a very good solution.