GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 344242
Gimp doesn't show up in KDE task switcher (Alt-Tab)
Last modified: 2008-01-15 14:06:58 UTC
Gimp 2.3.9 doesn't show up in KDE task switcher (Alt-Tab). Gimp was compiled from source on Ubuntu Dapper (gcc 4.0.3). Can I provide any additional information to help you solving the bug?
The task switcher probably decides to not show utility windows. Image windows should appear there, though.
Alright, I just noticed that the gimp utility windows show up if you raise an image window. Sorry, my fault! Thanks for the quick reply and keep up the good work!
Well, it is a bug, or rather a wrong default value, that needs to be taken care of before the GIMP 2.4 release. We should probably change the defaults back because the current default settings cause problems with most window managers.
My suggestion is that we change the default value for "toolbox-window-hint" back to "normal", but leave the setting for "dock-window-hint" at the current default value which is "utility". Any opinions on this, anyone?
So the layers, channels, paths dock will be a utility window? IMO most people will still regard this behaviour as broken (mabe even more so - one window is shwon, one not).
How exactly is that broken behaviour? Ideally, the docks would never show up in the window list.
IMHO, this would be the right behavior if and only if we ensure that we always have at least one image window open (even if this means opening a new empty image when the last image/display is closed): the toolbox and the docs would not show up in the task bar, only the image windows would.
Sure, that's the long-term goal. But it requires substantial changes to the display code, so it's not an option for GIMP 2.4. Can we please get back to the discussion on what default configuration to choose for 2.4? There's still my proposal and I don't quite follow Michaels arguments that the suggested configuration would be broken behaviour.
This is one case where it really isn't a bug, it is a feature. You can easily get back the original behaviour by going in to Preferences, clicking on "Window Management", and setting the "Window Manager Hints" for the "toolbox" (and optionally "for other docks") to Normal Window rather than "Utility window". I would vote to set the default for at least the toolbox to "Normal window". Unless a person is familiar with the term of "window hinting" and what it means, it is hard to find how to fix what appears to be a bug via preferences. Perhaps the labels or pop-up tip for the relevant preference settings could be changed to something easier for the average user to understand how it will affect the behaviour of the two main dialogs.
2006-06-27 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/config/gimpguiconfig.c: changed default window hints back to "normal". Fixes bug #344242.