GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 554860
Toolbox and Docks are Utility windows not working correctly on windows XP
Last modified: 2008-10-04 20:30:30 UTC
Please describe the problem: http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html ->Toolbox and Docks are Utility windows My toolbox and layers windows are not always on top based on the default settings under preferences->window management. I changed it to "Keep above" for both toolbox and other docks, and restarted gimp with the same problem. Steps to reproduce: 1. install GIMP on Windows XP SP3 2. start GIMP 3. Click on Image window and toolbox and layers windows fall behind the image window. 4. goto preferences->window management and change both toolbox and other docks to "keep above". 5. restart gimp 6. Same issue as step 3. Actual results: doesn't function as documented http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html ->Toolbox and Docks are Utility windows Expected results: to function as documented http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html ->Toolbox and Docks are Utility windows Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
The release notes explain that this only works on the GNOME desktop. It is well-known that the window hints are not implemented on the Windows platform.
http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html Release Notes: Under -> "Toolbox and Docks are Utility windows" I don't see where it explains this as a "GNOME only feature". Can you please provide a link to your source? I also recommend updating the release notes section I provided with that additional info as well, to avoid confusion.
You need to look closer then: Known Problems * The Utility window hint is currently only known to work well in the Linux GNOME desktop environment.
Once again I'll reiterate. "I also recommend updating the release notes 'section' I provided with that additional info as well, to avoid confusion." This is misleading, which is obvious because I'm not the only person with this observation. If I wanted to read the small print to learn about this issue, I would have read the whole damn thing. I appreciate the dick headed comments however as I'm sure you can tell. http://digg.com/linux_unix/In_Gimp_We_Trust user: abbathdoom
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132501 ***