First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp

Finally the day I have been waiting for! I can't stand the multiple windows, especially on the Mac OS X version in which one initial click is required to focus the window and a second to click a button or begin using a tool.

Isn't it interesting how the many-windows paradigm has come and gone? Desktop software for the first ~15 years of personal computing was full screen, single "window" for any given task. And then, for the past fifteen years or so, we've been dealing with the increased complexity of many-windowed interfaces. Seems strange that nobody noticed that some of the changes that windowing systems brought were negative until a whole new generation of developers came along and reinvented the single window model.

This? <a href="http://bit.ly/1Yl9Su" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/1Yl9Su</a> This looks amazing? Really?<p>It looks fine... but maybe the linux dudes have standards lowered a bit?

I can't stand single windows for graphics stuff. ideal is to have the image take up one whole monitor and all the pallets and tools take up another.

I'm glad people are being so critical. Back when I started using The GIMP (v1.x), when people (including me) said Photoshop (v4) had a superior interface, people rushed to The GIMP's defense. The GIMP has gotten more Photoshop-like since then, and no one's complained, so apparently the defenders were blind apologists. Not everything should be like Photoshop, but I think doing it Photoshop's way would be better than this way.

I actually loved the floating windows: that's what window managers are for, right?<p>However, since transitioning to StumpWM the multi-window approach just doesn't cut it. Now it's a trade-off between logging in with Metacity and doing gimpwork, or keeping StumpWM running and avoiding gimpwork. If Gimp 2.8 has this, then I can start spending more time with that peculiar but beloved graphics suite again.

I used Gimp a few weeks ago to resize a picture .. I'm still finding Gimp windows on screen ...<p>thanks folks, I'll be here all week!

Wow. It's about time. Have no idea what the holdout was.

You can almost do that now, by just arranging your pallets.<p>But I like the tabs for images though - that's a big plus.

Amazing? Hardly!

This looks good. It's worth noting that on the mac at least, even PS can have a windowless UI. It's actually nice when using multiple monitors and a tablet. A single window won't make full use of 2 screens of differing vertical resolutions.

The follow up also has a short how to on getting and building the new version <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/gimp-single-window-install.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/gimp-single-window-instal...</a>

"First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp - It Looks Vaguely like Photoshop."<p>FTFY.

Awful, why didn't they do that 10 years earlier? I thought I just didn't understand the power of having dozens of tiny windows. Now I feel scammed.

I don't care how many windows there are, I just want cut and paste to work in a reasonably intuitive way. In the GIMP it does not.

Is there MS Windows build of 2.8 GIMP floating somewhere? I only found 2.7 which apparently doesn't have single windows goodness.

"Bring out the gimp."

First thought: Well, that looks rather painful to use.

Cool, but doesn't GIMPShop already do this?

Thanks for correcting that title.

Wow that looks brilliantly usable. Why did they resist this for so long?

Well this is a bummer. I quite like having multiple windows. I hope they haven't completely gutted the multi-window layout.

there is an hint for statups in this thing: to blindly copy from the "best on the market" is not a good idea.