[Gimp-developer] All GIMP windows to top when one selected

["Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex]

Hello,

I'd like ALL GIMP windows (typicaly one named "GIMP", window "Layers", 
window "Brushes", window with edited images etc.) to be brought to the 
front (of other non-GIMP windows), when an arbitrary of them is selected 
(e.g. via Alt+Tab) or clicked on.

This behaviour seems to me better as you don't have to click each GIMP 
window. When you select any GIMP window, it probably means you want to 
work with GIMP overall, i.e. you need to see image windows, layer 
window... simply all opened GIMP windows at the same moment.

Imagine you use Alt+Tab to switch between applications. When working 
with GIMP, you temporarily switch to another application, and when you 
want to restore ALL previous GIMP windows, you have to select them each 
one after other!

Suggested feature should be eventually conditioned by a switch in the 
User Preferences dialog box.

As I've written this motif to bugzilla first (thinking that was the 
right place), I've got an answer: "That's already implemented in trunk, 
at least for sane window managers."

As only MS Win user, I'm no judge of how other window managers work.

In case of WinXP (and probably MS Win in general): All [parent 
dependent] windows created with a special creation flag (maybe WS_CHILD 
or WS_TOOLWINDOW window style in WinAPI, see e.g. MSDN for 
CreateWindowEx() function) are automatically brought to the top. If they 
don't have such creation flag, behaviour described above must be 
implemented another way.

Thank you.

Best regards,

LuP

PS: WinXP user, CPU ~3 GHz, ~1 GB RAM

PPS: I'm novice here. I hope I put this message to the right place; if 
not, please let me know.

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