Hello,

I have a question which hopefully has a nice answer. :-) Sometimes I would close by mistake a tool dock by clicking alt-F4 a little too fast, while the dock has the focus, but I thought it was the image (and I wanted to close this image). Then the dock configuration (which tools were set there, which tabs,size and position of the dock and tabs, etc.) is lost. So of course, I can always recreate the dock, reposition/resize it, set the right tools inside. But that's boring.

I tried to search but could not find a solution to this: would there be an option right now to prevent the tool docks from closing by the usual window-close event (so you could close them by the dock menu explicitely, but not by quick shortcut for instance)? Thanks!

Jehan

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 02:08 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote:

Hello,

I have a question which hopefully has a nice answer. :-) Sometimes I would close by mistake a tool dock

Look in the Windows menu for Recently closed docks.

Nice one! I would prefer for them not closing at the first place, but that's already a lot better than having to rebuild them. :-) Thanks.

Jehan

Liam

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Hi,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:

I tried to search but could not find a solution to this: would there be an option right now to prevent the tool docks from closing by the usual window-close event (so you could close them by the dock menu explicitely, but not by quick shortcut for instance)?

Just use the Lock options in the dock's menu :)

Thanks, but I had seen this option and tested it before. This option only prevents a tab from being dragged out of a dock by the mouse by accident. It does not prevent the whole dock from being closed.

Or else you are talking about another lock option that I did not see. But if it exists really though, please tell me where I could find it! That's exactly what I would be looking for. :-) Note: I am in Gimp 2.8.0. Maybe it is in 2.8.2?

Thanks!

Jehan

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Hi,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Jehan Pagès wrote:

Thanks, but I had seen this option and tested it before. This option only prevents a tab from being dragged out of a dock by the mouse by accident. It does not prevent the whole dock from being closed.

OK, I see what you mean. Is there no way you could switch to the single-window mode?

I could indeed. I don't have enough strong Gimp habit for it to be a problem. That would fix *my* issue because I work single-screened. I would think though that would not fix it to any graphist which would have this same issue and need the multi-window mode because one uses several screens (for instance).

But maybe they don't have this problem? Is there any other way (shortcut, I mean) to close the top image which would not close a tool dock (even if it has the focus)? Maybe this is the solution. Maybe using alt-f4 (which is typically set to raise the close-window event in most window managers) is not the best idea.

Note that I tried ctrl-w (view-close by default), but it would also close a tool dock. There is the event file-save-and-close. This on the other hand works, as well as file-close-all (maj-ctrl-w by default). Which means they would close only the upper image or all images respectively, even if a dock has focus. But they automatically save the closed images. And I don't want this. If I close an image which has been modified and not saved, I stil want the dialog box asking me about it (sometimes you do tests, and once done, just want to fastly close the image without saving the changes). Basically I guess a file-close-and-ask event would be nice.

Jehan

P.S.: sorry to be a little annoying. My point is that if there is a *best way* to do it, and that does not exist, I may want to code and propose a patch to Gimp for it. But of course if a feature which solves the issue (this way or another) actually already exists, I would prefer not to work for nothing (and have my patch rejected if I do it).

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