GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 757138
automatic hide-show dock
Last modified: 2018-05-24 15:51:06 UTC
Gimps dock is always there, like a rock and only tab can hide him. Dont get me wrong, the dock is very important, but shouldnt be omnipresent on screen. Ive not always the time to press tab, as absurdly it may sound autohide the dock - how should it work by touching the left/right border. Moving the cursor outwards of the dock contracts/hides the dock area again Why should such an autohide function be useful? when you work in fullscreen mode you need every pixel of your screen (to paint, in my case) and the dock eats some nice space. Why not offering us users two options: # autohide dock # manually hide/show the dock its not because on Mac the Os-dock has that autohide feature, its more because of usability. I made a similar enhancement report which you can close: Bug 739734
> Ive not always the time to press tab, as absurdly it may sound Yes it is kind of a strange remark. Don't you draw with shortcuts, a hand usually close to the keyboard? It is not even a combination of keys, but a simple key (which is usually bigger than others on keyboards). > autohide the dock - how should it work I see what you mean. Many software have this kind of feature. Sometimes I find it nice, and sometimes I hate it, firstly because it often happens that the mouse is not over the tools/buttons/dock/menus/whatever even times when you want to read it; secondly because oppositely, when the mouse fly by chance in the wrong zone and the dock/menu appears over part of my workspace, when I don't it to, I find it very disturbing and concentration-breaking. For these reasons, often the shortcut to have the dock appear is much more user friendly to me, because I have perfect control over when I want the dock/menus to appear and when I don't. This is even truer for users of graphics tablets since they go directly to any part of the screen much faster and easier than with a mouse (actually instantly)! Now I perfectly understand about the need of a blank canvas, removing all distractions. But since it is so easy to do it already with a single click, it is not like one could say this is missing in GIMP. So I am not sure how I would feel about this. Maybe if it were an option, not as only possible behavior, I guess it could be ok.
(In reply to Jehan from comment #1) > So I am not sure how I would feel about this. Maybe if it were an option, > not as only possible behavior, I guess it could be ok. works for me too!
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