Image Slicing was Re: [oclug]for the mac / linux fans

Shad Young shad.young at sympatico.ca
Mon Jan 13 17:18:31 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:36, Raymond Wood wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:28:18PM -0500, Shad Young remarked:
> > I have no doubt Gimp can do everything I need it to, its just
> > very difficult for me to navigate. When doing web development
> > I often have a dozen windows open at once; a file manage, a
> > browser of each type, a text editor or IDE like Quanta open
> > (with maybe six or seven tabbed files open, maybe a music
> > player, email, IRC..., add Gimp to the mix and suddenly its
> > overwhelming.  If they at least gave me the option of MDI it
> > would easy my life a great deal (If it exists somewhere I
> > apologize in advance, but I have as yet been able to find a
> > setting for that). 
> 
> The only way I can deal with this aspect of the GIMP is to
> confine it to its own 'workspace' - that way, GIMP can
> proliferate windows to its heart's content, and I have 5 other
> workspaces where my other active apps can play.  Works for me...
> 
> Cheers,
> Raymond

Yup, that's the way I deal with it too. I am slowly getting to
understand Gimp, and for fast changes, a reboot to windows doesn't make
sense.

Shad
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