The single-window mode it's better, because it handles better the menus,
etc... on Unity.
El 05/07/2011 18:27, "Mantas Kriaučiūnas" <email address hidden> escribió:

> ** Also affects: baltix
>   Importance: Undecided
>       Status: New
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/795038
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> Title:
>  Using GIMP in Unity is troublesome & unintuitive
>
> Status in Unity:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: unity
>
>  Using GIMP with Ubuntu's Unity is rather troublesome and here's why.
>
>  Let's say I'm on Workspace 1, which currently has Chrome on it. I load
>  GIMP onto Workspace 2. If I am on Workspace 1 and click on the GIMP
>  icon to switch me to the Workspace where GIMP is located, I am
>  switched to GIMP on Workspace 2 but the main window, containing the
>  image I'm working on, is NEVER focussed, it's nearly always one of the
>  toolboxes (90% of the time, it'll be the layers/brushes utility window
>  that gets focussed).
>
>  This is annoying because:
>
>  1) If I'm having to refer between my web browser and GIMP a lot, and
>  they're on separate workspaces, this means that every time I switch to
>  GIMP I then have to click on the main GIMP window before I can access
>  the global menu bar. Every time. It disrupts the workflow.
>
>  OTHER ANNOYING BEHAVIOURS THAT GIMP SOMETIMES EXHIBITS:
>  1) If I open up GIMP on a workspace, the GIMP launcher icon in Unity is
> on a constant of "requires attention" (by highlighting one of window
> indicators in the launcher) until I click on every GIMP window and utility
> window that's open.
>
>  2) Sometimes, GIMP opens with one of the utility windows slightly off
>  the side of the workspace. This means that, whenever I try to switch
>  to GIMP from another workspace (again, say I'm on Workspace 1 and I
>  want to switch to GIMP on Workspace 2), by clicking on the GIMP icon
>  in the launcher, nothing happens. This is because, although it's
>  hidden, Unity sees the GIMP utility window has being on the current
>  workspace (Workspace 1). Clicking on the icon again brings up the
>  Scale View with all of the available GIMP windows and utility windows
>  to choose from.
>
>  3) Sometimes, dragging a GIMP XCF file from a Unity Lens onto the GIMP
>  icon in the launcher, so that I can open GIMP straight into the file
>  to work on, causes the utility windows to be stacked on top of each
>  other, or in positions on the screen that I didn't leave them on.
>
>  4) In my experience of using Gnome-shell on Fedora 15, managing GIMP is
> much easier. Switching between apps on different workspaces in Gnome-shell,
> the main GIMP window is always focussed on, the utility windows never move
> from their position and are almost "pinned" to desktop. Managing GIMP in
> Gnome-shell is much easier.
>
>  DISCLAIMER: I totally understand that GIMP really, currently, has a
> horrible interface and I know that the long-awaited single window mode is
> currently in development. Whether this new interface will playing with how
> Unity works, I don't know.
>
>  Is it possible for each utility window that is opened by GIMP to pass
>  on GIMP's main menubar to Unity's global menubar? Is this something
>  that Unity can solve, or is it an inherent problem with how the GIMP's
>  interface works that just doesn't mix well with our Unity operates?
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: unity 3.8.14-0ubuntu1~natty1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.44-generic 2.6.38.7
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Architecture: i386
>  CompizPlugins:
> [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,snap,place,session,grid,resize,mousepoll,vpswitch,move,imgpng,regex,gnomecompat,animation,workarounds,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell,scaleaddon]
>  Date: Thu Jun  9 14:21:51 2011
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
>   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: unity
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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