new download haunted by old problem's ghost

[mellyrn]

I had Gimp 2.10.12 on my machine. While working an image, my fingers slipped and suddenly my tools/dialog box was much different:  fewer tool icons were displayed, and the dialog box was completely unfamiliar:  the dialog box also did not change depending on which tool (of the fewer tools) I chose.  So while I can choose "text", I am, for example, unable to choose a  font, and while I can choose "brush", I am unable to choose the size of my brush. The new dialog box window(s?) contain nothing.

   

I had been working with black as my foreground color and red as the background. That is relevant; please bear with me.

I went into Windows (10; 64-bit) "Settings" and uninstalled Gimp 2.10.12.  I went to gimp.org and downloaded 2.10.20.  I opened the new Gimp -- and I have the same reduced tool menu, the same unreadable, unworkable dialog box(es) -- AND THE SAME COLORS, black (foreground) & red (background).

I uninstalled & downloaded again. Didn't help.

I ran CCleaner, complete with "wipe free space", restarted my computer and tried again.  Once again the new download displays the same abbreviated tool menu, the same lack of usable dialog for the tools, AND THE SAME COLORS.

??? It feels like the old, broken version is somehow "haunting" my machine & corrupting the new downloads....

Please note, in the image labeled "normal gimp" -- that's Gimp 2.8, which I have on an old machine, but the tool/dialog box looks much like what I *used* to have in 2.10.12, & what I expect to see:
   

[rich2005]

Your finger slip, up-graded Gimp 2.10.12 to Gimp 2.10.20, quite a slip and what you have are tool groups rather than individual tools. This does make sense considering the number of Gimp tools. You can revert from Edit -> Preferences -> Interface -> Toolbox as https://i.imgur.com/sH8dMrW.jpg

edit: You can not see the tool options because you have the Images tab active, use the left hand tab which is tool options

Your preferred layout is rearranged by closing / moving tabs around the docks.
A sort video on that https://youtu.be/01PeLL1F8Kg
More on setting Gimp up for the sort of layout you want https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Fit-Gi...75#pid8475
The black theme is changed in Edit -> Preferences -> Themes
Icons changed in Edit -> Preferences -> Icon Theme
By default Gimp 2.10 uses single window mode, for the older multi-window mode use Windows -> un-tick Single Window Mode.

I really do not know why Windows users think that continually re-installing applications ever fixes anything

[mellyrn]

(10-07-2020, 07:26 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Your finger slip, up-graded Gimp 2.10.12 to Gimp 2.10.20, quite a slip and what you have are tool groups rather than individual tools. This does make sense considering the number of Gimp tools. You can revert from Edit -> Preferences -> Interface -> Toolbox  as https://i.imgur.com/sH8dMrW.jpg

edit: You can not see the tool options because you have the Images tab active, use the left hand tab which is tool options

Your preferred layout is rearranged by closing / moving  tabs around the docks.
A sort video on that https://youtu.be/01PeLL1F8Kg
More on setting Gimp up for the sort of layout you want https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Fit-Gi...75#pid8475
The black theme is changed in Edit -> Preferences -> Themes
Icons changed in Edit -> Preferences -> Icon Theme
By default Gimp 2.10 uses single window mode, for the older multi-window mode use Windows -> un-tick Single Window Mode.

I really do not know why Windows users think that continually re-installing applications ever fixes anything

Thank you very kindly! This is most helpful.& this Windows user just doesn\'t know any better....