GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 159378
Utility windows in Gimp are not minimized when Gimp is minimized
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Gimp has the ability to set the utility window hint for docks. Unfortunately, if I do that I will lose the ability to minimize it. If I minimize all Gimp windows, the dock is still visible, and there's no way to get rid of it. I submitted a patch to Metacity, which minimizes all utility windows when all the other windows in the same group are minimized too. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159359 But I was told that Gimp does not follow the utility window specification correctly, and that I should file a bug report for Gimp. If there's indeed something wrong with Gimp, then I suspect it has got something to do with not setting a transient for the dock windows.
See my comment 7 on the metacity bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159359#c7
We have no control over the "minimizeability" of the windows. It is up to the window manager to decide how to decorate the window. When reading the Spec the UTILITY-window sounds pretty much like a fitting description for the non-document windows Gimp opens. We made this hint configurable, because setting it has wildly varying effects in different window managers and the user might or might not like that behaviour. So if you dislike the "UTILITY"-behaviour in Metacity, simply disable this hint. I do not see what we could do to improve this behaviour. Since Robs concerns about the WM-Specs apparently are based on wrong assumptions (the specs say nothing about a transient relation to the document window and there is nothing about the minimizability of those windows in it) I am closing this as INVALID. Feel free to reopen this bug when you have either a clear description on where GIMPs implementation is wrong or specific suggestions about what hints should be set(table) instead.
Resolving as a duplicate of the Metacity bug, so that we can all play nice together. Dave.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159359 ***