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Method to add File Menu to Toolbox?

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Method to add File Menu to Toolbox? DJ 29 Dec 17:35
  Method to add File Menu to Toolbox? Martin Nordholts 29 Dec 17:52
  Method to add File Menu to Toolbox? Sven Neumann 30 Dec 13:14
   Method to add File Menu to Toolbox? Pigeon 10 Mar 20:38
    Method to add File Menu to Toolbox? Martin Nordholts 10 Mar 20:58
DJ
2008-12-29 17:35:42 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Method to add File Menu to Toolbox?

Hi Gimp-user,

A couple of years ago I ran across a blog that talked about organizing The Gimp into 1 window. I really liked this layout. I spent some time dragging and docking so when I had no images open, there was 1 window, the Toolbox.

This window consisted of: the File Menu at the top, then the Toolbox below that, then a series of Dialogs below that in a horizontal row, starting with Layers, Channels, Paths, History, Color, Brushes, Patterns, Gradients, and ending with Tool Options. When I wanted to create or open an image, do a screen capture, change Gimp Preferences, I just went to the Toolbox that had a large presence on the right-hand side of my desktop.

With the recent version of The Gimp, the File Menu was removed from the Tool Box window, and now there are 2 windows at all times. When I want to open an image, do a screen capture, change The Gimp Preference, etc, I have to rummage around for a currently open image to access the File menu. These usually are minimized.

Does anyone know of a way to get the File Menu back on the Toolbox, or to get the interface to work like it did in the past in version 2.2?

I did find (toobox-wilber no) at gimpbook.com/tips.html. I added that to gimprc to remove the empty space at the top of the Toolbox. Now if the File Menu was back on the Toolbox, life would be good again :-)

Thank you.

Martin Nordholts
2008-12-29 17:52:09 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Method to add File Menu to Toolbox?

DJ wrote:

Hi Gimp-user,

With the recent version of The Gimp, the File Menu was removed from the Tool Box window, and now there are 2 windows at all times. When I want to open an image, do a screen capture, change The Gimp Preference, etc, I have to rummage around for a currently open image to access the File menu. These usually are minimized.

Does anyone know of a way to get the File Menu back on the Toolbox, or to get the interface to work like it did in the past in version 2.2?

Hi,

You can't get the toolbox menu back, but you can press Tab to hide the Toolbox and any Dialogs, leaving you with only one window and a menu again, the empty image window.

- Martin

Sven Neumann
2008-12-30 13:14:47 UTC (about 16 years ago)

Method to add File Menu to Toolbox?

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:35 -0600, DJ wrote:

With the recent version of The Gimp, the File Menu was removed from the Tool Box window, and now there are 2 windows at all times. When I want to open an image, do a screen capture, change The Gimp Preference, etc, I have to rummage around for a currently open image to access the File menu. These usually are minimized.

It goes even further. The toolbox and dock windows are supposed to be hidden if all your image windows are minimized (unfortunately this doesn't work correctly with all window managers). So just forget about the idea of adding a file menu to the toolbox. The toolbox is not a normal toplevel window any longer, it's just a utility window for the active image window.

Sven

Pigeon
2009-03-10 20:38:29 UTC (almost 16 years ago)
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Method to add File Menu to Toolbox?

So just forget about

the idea of adding a file menu to the toolbox. The toolbox is not a normal toplevel window any longer, it's just a utility window for the active image window.

Sven

Sorry, I'm not going to "forget about it". I want it back the way it was - with the File menu at the top of the toolbox window, the toolbox window behaving as a normal toplevel window, and no default blank image window. It's much more convenient that way.

The new layout is just annoying and the change is pointless.

So. How does one go about restoring the File menu to the toolbox window and getting rid of the redundant default image window?

Thankyou.

Martin Nordholts
2009-03-10 20:58:50 UTC (almost 16 years ago)

Method to add File Menu to Toolbox?

Pigeon wrote:

So just forget about

the idea of adding a file menu to the toolbox. The toolbox is not a normal toplevel window any longer, it's just a utility window for the active image window.

Sven

Sorry, I'm not going to "forget about it". I want it back the way it was - with the File menu at the top of the toolbox window, the toolbox window behaving as a normal toplevel window, and no default blank image window. It's much more convenient that way.

Hi Pigeon

There is no way to get the menu back and no such way is going to be added. The only way to get a menu in the toolbox is to use GIMP 2.4. There were many reasons to get rid of the toolbox menu, one being that two menubars in one application is just plain wrong. For more reasoning behind the change, refer to the UI specification [1]

BR, Martin

[1] http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/No_image_open_specification