GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 163532
Add a 'close all' entry to the 'File' menu
Last modified: 2008-01-15 12:45:02 UTC
I frequently use dozens of calls to gimp-remote to display a bunch of pictures that belong together, and I repeat this many times, each time obsoleting all earlier views. At the moment I can only manually close each of the previous instances (or restart the Gimp), which is tedious. It would be extremely helpful if there were a 'close all' entry in the 'File' pulldown menu of each gimp image window.
Probably belongs into the Images dialog. We could simply add a Close entry to the images in that dialog and allow for multiple selections.
But then you'd have to make a selection in the image dialog each time. Still an improvement, though. IMO the Gimp needs both =) BTW, I realized too late this feature request has been issued before: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106726 Fritz
Well, that report mentioned two things at the same time which is always bad. I am going to change the summary of bug #106726 and keep this one open for "Close All".
For the time being, the following Script-Fu does the job for me: (define (script-fu-close-all) (while (> (car (gimp-image-list)) 0) (set! image (aref (car (cdr (gimp-image-list))) 0)) (gimp-display-delete image))) (script-fu-register "script-fu-close-all" _"_Close All" "Close all open image views" "Fritz Jetzek <fritz.jetzek@evotec-technologies.com>" "Fritz Jetzek" "2005/1/14" "") (script-fu-menu-register "script-fu-close-all" _"<Toolbox>/File/")
That script is bogus. You can't delete displays by image ID.
The menu entry would be easy to implement, setting the easy-fix keyword. Adding this functionality to the Images dockable is slightly more complex but still a nice thing to do for someone who wants to start playing with the GIMP actions subsystem.
Needless to mention that File -> Close All would need a confirmation dialog similar to the one in app/widgets/gimpdock.c.
Created attachment 52599 [details] [review] Adding a close all option ... This patch might fix it. I kept 'close all' closely linked to 'quit' because the semantics are quite similar so the interfaces should probably be managed by the same underlying code.
Great :) Fixed in CVS: 2005-09-24 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> Applied (slightly modified) patch from Sylvain Foret which adds "Close All" menu entries and dialog. Fixes bug #163532. * app/actions/file-actions.c * app/actions/file-commands.[ch]: added "file-close-all" action and callback. * app/dialogs/dialogs-constructors.[ch] * app/dialogs/dialogs.c * app/dialogs/quit-dialog.[ch]: added close all dialog which is a modified quit dialog. * app/widgets/gimphelp-ids.h: added help ID. * menus/image-menu.xml.in * menus/toolbox-menu.xml.in: add close all next to quit.