Yesterday, 06:24 PM (This post was last modified: 11 hours ago by cookiemix.)
Hi,
Apologies if this question's already been asked, but I want to dock the main toolbox - containing the buttons Move, Select, Free Select, Fuzzy Select, Crop Tool, Rotate Tool, Warp Transform, etc. - horizontally and directly beneath the File Menu, instead of vertically to the left side. How do I do that?
(Yesterday, 06:24 PM)cookiemix Wrote: Apologies if this question's already been asked, but I want to dock the main toolbox - containing the buttons Move, Select, Free Select, Fuzzy Select, Crop Tool, Rotate Tool, Warp Transform, etc. - horizontally and directly beneath the File Menu, instead of vertically to the left side. How do I do that?
Do you mean a "ribbon" type menu, as you get with Word / LibreOffice, maybe Inkscape in part.
Well, I faked that although if you were using linux, it is possible in Gimp multi-window mode to have floating docks and pin in place on top of the main window.
10 hours ago (This post was last modified: 10 hours ago by cookiemix.)
(11 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote:
(Yesterday, 06:24 PM)cookiemix Wrote: Apologies if this question's already been asked, but I want to dock the main toolbox - containing the buttons Move, Select, Free Select, Fuzzy Select, Crop Tool, Rotate Tool, Warp Transform, etc. - horizontally and directly beneath the File Menu, instead of vertically to the left side. How do I do that?
Do you mean a "ribbon" type menu, as you get with Word / LibreOffice, maybe Inkscape in part.
Well, I faked that although if you were using linux, it is possible in Gimp multi-window mode to have floating docks and pin in place on top of the main window.
Yes, exactly like that. I'd've thought a program with this many settings might allow for moving the main toolbox where I want it, horizontal and top of screen beneath the File Menu, just as programs such as Audacity allows users to do with instant ease. Easily draggable menus that can be placed on any side of the program, top, bottom, left or right. That's been a basic UI customisation function in many programs for decades.
(10 hours ago)cookiemix Wrote: Yes, exactly like that. I'd've thought a program with this many settings might allow for moving the main toolbox where I want it, horizontal and top of screen beneath the File Menu, just as programs such as Audacity allows users to do with instant ease. Easily draggable menus that can be placed on any side of the program, top, bottom, left or right. That's been a basic UI customisation function in many programs for decades.
10 hours ago (This post was last modified: 8 hours ago by cookiemix.)
(10 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote:
(10 hours ago)cookiemix Wrote: Yes, exactly like that. I'd've thought a program with this many settings might allow for moving the main toolbox where I want it, horizontal and top of screen beneath the File Menu, just as programs such as Audacity allows users to do with instant ease. Easily draggable menus that can be placed on any side of the program, top, bottom, left or right. That's been a basic UI customisation function in many programs for decades.
I've enjoyed using Gimp for a number of years, and have always recommended it to people - that is until I tried to do simple things with it, such as make it more comfortable to use, as other programs allow me to do.
It seems that in a bid to add a billion convoluted features I'll likely never need to use, the creators of Gimp have omitted basic usage customisation, window management. And at present, it's way more fiddly and aggravating than I'm prepared to deal with. Here's hoping it'll improve in the future.
And the fact that Gimp goes way back, as you said, makes it even worse - that the User eXperience is a very low priority indeed. Quantity over even basic usability.
6 hours ago (This post was last modified: 5 hours ago by sallyanne.)
Just tried it as rich suggested. But you cant have it in single window mode to do it. I also like to have the pattern/gradient and foreground/background colours in my toolbox but they will not go in that line. Only tools.
So you can make it like that if you wish. Only make sure once you do to go t0 preferences and click on save window positions on exit and save windows now.
