Toolbox not represented in task bar

[Kevin Krumwiede]

Binary package hint: gimp

GIMP's toolbox window is sometimes not represented in the task bar. When this occurs, one must uncover it and click on it to switch to it. I have not found a way to deliberately reproduce this, but it occurs frequently.

Also, when this bug occurs, sometimes an additional bug occurs. The expected task bar button appears when GIMP is *closed*, and cannot be gotten rid of short of logging out. ps reports no running gimp process. Again, I cannot deliberately reproduce this, but it occurs frequently.

Running Kubuntu 9.10.

[ian_hawdon (ian-hawdon)]

Also occurs on Kubuntu 10.04, I haven't had the phantom toolbox bar appear after GIMP has been closed though.

[Ted (tedks)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and helping make Kubuntu better!

Could you install GNOME (install the package ubuntu-desktop) and try to reproduce the bug there? That will tell us if this is a bug in GIMP, or a bug in a KDE package.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Kevin Krumwiede (kjkrum)]

This bug (if it is a bug) also affects gimp 2.6.8 on XFCE 4.6.1 (Xubuntu 10.04). The toolbox, layers dialog, etc. are never represented in the task bar or task switcher. Only the main window (when it exists) or image windows are represented.

However, the toolbox and other windows are brought to the top whenever an image window is focused. I assume this behavior is intended to substitute for their representation in the task bar. It did not do this in KDE.

It would be nice if the raising behavior and representation in the task bar were both optional.