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Bug 106483 - Integrated Working Environment
Integrated Working Environment
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 7379
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
Daniel Egger
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-02-19 01:09 UTC by Kevin Duffus
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
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Description Kevin Duffus 2003-02-19 01:09:10 UTC 
The new feature to show the menu bar in the image window is great. I think
that this option could be taken a step further: giving the user the choice
of integrating everything in one uniform window a la Dreamweaver MX. Or,
the toolbox can take the form of a menu bar instead of being a separate window.
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2003-02-19 01:16:46 UTC 
With the new docks in 1.3 and the optional menubar per display, the
GIMP UI is as much MDI as the GIMP developers want it to be. There is
no way we will put everything in one large window.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7379 ***
Comment 2 Raphaël Quinet 2003-02-22 08:40:15 UTC 
I would like to correct the previous comment: some future version of
the GIMP _will_ offer the option to put everything in one window,
because this is the most appropriate user interface for an image
editing program if your environement does not offer multiple virtual
workspaces.  It's just that it will take time to write the code and
to convince some developers about the usefulness of this feature. ;-)

I had a short discussion about that with Owen Taylor while we were at
FOSDEM.  The window-in-window MDI model would require some new widgets
as mentioned in bug #7379.  These widgets should probably be specific
to the GIMP and not part of the core GTK+ widgets, because this MDI
model is most useful in image editing programs, not in other programs.
Anyway, I wrote in bug #7379 that I would post a proposal about this
on the developers mailing list.  I still haven't done it, but I will
do it soon...