2008/2/1, heathenx <heathenx@...155...>:

Ah. Forget about my last post. I found what I was using in gimp a few years ago. It's here:
http://registry.gimp.org/plugin?id=3892. It basically puts all of your gimp windows into a master
window so that when minimizing and maximizing you only have one thing in your taskbar. I think I'll
start using it again. Btw, I'm using the 3.0a version of it on WinXP. Nothing to install. Just drop
two files in your gimp plug-ins directory.

Now...enough gimp talk. The Inkscape folks will likely ban me from the list. :P

heathenx

Ocetalo wrote the following on 2/1/2008 10:44 AM:
> I agree with you. I have the same problem when using GIMP, and it gets
> even worse. Not only floating dialogs on specific features (such as
> color levels or filters), but also the three GIMP base windows: the main
> tools window, the second tab windows (including channels, layers,
> textures, etc.) and the canvas window are open separately, so one has to
> be sitching and switching from one to another. I thought it was GIMP's
> fault. By reading you I see it's Windows'. That's kind of ironic
> something named "Windows" has such a bad management of windows, isn't it?
>
>
> 2008/2/1, Daniel Hulme <art@...1790... <mailto:art@...1790...>>:
>
>     On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:07:22AM -0500, Richard Querin wrote:
>      > Also, the behaviour/frustration of working with floating dialogs
>      > depends on what platform you're on.
>     I second that. I often hear Windows users complain about programs that
>     use multiple windows for toolboxes and such, and I see where they're
>     coming from. At work, when I have to use Windows, it's inconvenient
>     mostly when I have Inkscape (or GIMP) as well as another window
>     (usually, the document I'm drawing illustrations for): if I click on the
>     other document's window on the taskbar to edit that, and then click on
>     the Inkscape one to bring that to the front, the toolboxes end up left
>     behind the other document. When I do this in Linux, I can make arbitrary
>     windows be on top or group them, and then I don't have a problem; in
>     fact, it is advantageous, because I have more control over where to put
>     them and when to display them. My only problem is that I keep trying to
>     press escape to get rid of them (particularly the Find dialog), which
>     does nothing.
>
>     If your workflow is impeded by missing features in your window manager,
>     you should complain to the supplier of the window manager. I think it's
>     a shame that the hard-working and dedicated Inkscape authors have had to
>     spend time working around misfeatures in third-party software; that
>     said, I look forward to 0.46, and hope that dockable dialogs bring with
>     them other benefits.
>
>     --
>     It's so hard to see the Sun with the truth in your eyes.
>     http://surreal.istic.org/          Calm down, it's only ones and zeroes.
>

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