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Bug 317317 - Win32: Floating windows are awkward and unfamiliar
Win32: Floating windows are awkward and unfamiliar
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 7379
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
2.2.x
Other All
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks: 317325
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-27 09:03 UTC by Prognathous
Modified: 2008-01-15 13:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Prognathous 2005-09-27 09:03:34 UTC 
GIMP/Win32 looks out of place and confusing on Windows. There are two possible
solutions to make it more consistent with the look & feel of the platform:

1. Make it MDI (all documents in one parent window).
2. Keep it SDI, but add a gray-colored "container" window for each image (and
for a new GIMP window that doesn't have any loaded image yet). All floating
windows/menus should be confined to this window.

Other information:
For reference, compare Adobe Photoshop on Windows vs. MacOS. The former uses the
gray workspace concept, the latter uses GIMP-like floating windows. Both make
sense when the platform UI conventions are taken into account.

Thanks,

Prog.
Comment 1 Michael Natterer 2005-09-27 10:07:07 UTC 
Apparently you didn't even spend a second searching for duplicates.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7379 ***
Comment 2 Prognathous 2005-09-27 10:12:23 UTC 
Actually, I did several searches (for "Windows", "Win32", "Floating" and a few
others). Too bad Bug 7379 has such a hard to find summary.

Thanks for the warm welcome,

Prog.
Comment 3 Prognathous 2005-09-27 10:13:51 UTC 
CCing Michael Natterer in case my last comment was missed...

Prog.
Comment 4 Sven Neumann 2005-09-27 12:15:07 UTC 
No need to CC the core developers, they get all the Bugzilla spam anyway.

Of course we know about the issues with window management on the Win32 platform
and we are working on it. You didn't seriously believe this wouldn't have been
reported before, did you?