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Bug 327976 - splash screen blocks all other applications
splash screen blocks all other applications
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 688710
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
2.2.x
Other Mac OS
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-01-21 13:52 UTC by Joachim Noreiko
Modified: 2012-11-20 10:26 UTC
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Description Joachim Noreiko 2006-01-21 13:52:10 UTC 
The GIMP splash screen sits on top of all other windows on OS X. This prevents the user from doing other work while the GIMP loads.
Comment 1 Michael Schumacher 2006-01-22 02:36:45 UTC 
Probably another configuration issue (like the pass-through of clicks?) of the X server in Mac OS X?
Comment 2 Sven Neumann 2006-01-23 11:48:03 UTC 
The splash screen has the GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_SPLASHSCREEN type hint set. That is the only thing that makes it different than any other window. If the X server that comes with OS X keeps this window on top and blocks other applications, then the X server and/or the window manager is severily broken and needs to be fixed. Please file a bug report at Apple and perhaps ask the distributor of the gimp.app package to disable the splash screen until this has been fixed. There is nothing we can do about this, thus closing as NOTGNOME.
Comment 3 Joachim Noreiko 2006-01-24 14:01:48 UTC 
Splashscreens are pretty unpleasant anyway.
Comment 4 Sven Neumann 2006-01-24 14:15:27 UTC 
That's why they are optional, at least for GIMP. Joachim, what's the point you are trying to make?
Comment 5 Joachim Noreiko 2006-01-24 14:27:03 UTC 
They are? Nothing about it in the manual.
Comment 6 Michael Schumacher 2006-01-24 15:33:04 UTC 
http://www.gimp.org/man/gimp.html
Comment 7 Joachim Noreiko 2006-01-24 15:39:09 UTC 
Not in this manual: http://gimp.org/docs/

And there doesn't seem to be a setting for it in the preferences dialog. I'm not sure there's a way to change the command gimp.app uses to launch gimp.
Comment 8 Sven Neumann 2006-01-24 16:07:23 UTC 
Perhaps it should be a gimprc option instead of a command-line one. I don't know and this is certainly not the right place to discuss this.

The gimp.app maintainer can definitely change the command.
Comment 9 Michael Natterer 2012-11-20 10:26:49 UTC 
Instead marking as duplicate of the bug that has a patch to fix this.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 688710 ***