[Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmapping, the UI part of it...

[David Gowers]

On 10/29/07, Michael Natterer <mitch at gimp.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 11:34 +1030, David Gowers wrote:
> > On 10/29/07, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/29/07, Guillermo Espertino wrote:
> > >
> > > > I looked at Opera, as it has been suggested here. It has very good
> > > > options for managing tabs (manage different views and make tiles or
> > > > cascades for multiple views, detach windows from the tabbed environment,
> > > > etc.)
> > > > I have to agree that it seems pretty convenient for GIMP.
> > > > Now, the question is, as gg pointed out, if GTK allows that kind of
> > > > solution. I've never seen a GTK app doing that, so I'm afraid it doesn't.
> > >
> > > http://curlyankles.sourceforge.net/widgets_docking.html
> > >
> > Wow,  that's very interesting Alexandre.
> > GIMP could definitely learn from that -- for example, a quick
> > improvement that could be made to DockBooks is, bringing a tab to the
> > front as it's moused-over (with some minimum hover time before
> > switching to prevent accidents.)
>
> Gimp 2.4 already does that.
How? Where?
I'm currently using 2.4-rc3; it does not happen here. If i hover over
a tab, it just shows a tooltip, never makes that tab active.

>
> ciao,
> --mitch
>
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