Kelsey Bjarnason wrote:
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:29:09 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
The window fragmentation is what enables you, for instance, to work on 10
images simultaneously in multi-head displays, without all the clutter that
is in menus and toolkits.
Except that it *adds* clutter all over the freakin' place. Just try doing
an alt-tab, which, by normal standards, switches between apps, or, in some
cases, between documents (which generally means app instances). 'Cept now
it's app... app... gimp image... gimp image... gimp toolbar... something
else... WTF?
Then don't use ALT-TAB. Learn to use multiple desktops, you can have
gimp siting on a desktop all by itself and your other programs on
another desktop.
Alt-tab was developed to get around the problem of only having a single
desktop, why carry it over to an OS that supports multiple ones?
If this isn't a
convenient transition (due to long-acquired habits)
Yeah, alt-tab is, indeed, a long-acquired habit, and one that *works*,
consistently, with every freakin' app I use on two different OSen...
except for gimp. 180,000 apps out there that work consistently, they have
to bugger it all up. Pity, otherwise it's a decent app.
Did you know that Microsoft Access does the same thing in Alt-tab?
Which is even worse as it uses an MDI interface, so everything is
bounded by a single window, yet it puts multiple items on the taskbar
and into Alt-tab.
Hell, if it's good enough for Microsoft, it's good enough for the Gimp.
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