Hi,

it's a known UI issue.
There is already a bug report about it: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675409 All what is needed now is someone deciding to implement it. :-)

Jehan

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Julius Voigt wrote:

Hi all,
hope this gets to developers just like I thought.

I tried GIMP on Linux Mint and was delighted, thanks.

A bit annoying, though, was that the on-canvas-text-editing parameters box can't be turned off, because it's in the way when I want a full view of my graphic while I'm typing and editing.

Cheers, Julius
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Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 13:09:02 +0100 From: juliusvoigt@yahoo.de
To: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: [Gimp-user] On-canvas text editing: make optional plea

Hi all, hope this gets to developers just like I thought.

I tried GIMP on Linux Mint and was delighted, thanks.

A bit annoying, though, was that the on-canvas-text-editing parameters box can't be turned off, because it's in the way when I want a full view of my graphic while I'm typing and editing.

Cheers, Julius
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A good point. If you check the "Use editor" option (which opens a separate window for editing the text) then you don't NEED the on-canvas text editor at the same time. And while you can, for example, disable visibility on the text layer while the text editor window is open, this only affects the visibility of the text itself; the on-canvas controls remain visible and there doesn't seem to be a way to adjust that.

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