On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:52, Sven Neumann wrote: > Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One of the obvious changes was that the new layers dialog wanted to > > always be on top (I had nuked all my previous gimp preferences and > > stuff, so what I was seeing was more or less the "default" > > behaviour). On something like my latop where 1024x768 is the > > highest resolution it works at, losing one quarter of the screen > > space to a non-resizable (width-wise) dialog box is a pretty big > > penalty. Even on my desktop (a little larger, but stil a 17" > > monitor, so it's only 1280x1024 or whatever), this is a bit of a > > nuisance. > > > > Now, it may be that there is some side-effect going on here, since I > > was building against CVS versions of everything (GTK+, metacity, > > etc). I could not see which window hint was keeping it on top, so > > maybe this is not an intentional effect. > > > > Is this intentional? Is it desirable? Is it set in stone? > > No, this is a bug in metacity. GIMP doesn't ask the window manager to > keep the dock windows on top. All we do is to set a window type hint > of "utility window". This seems to be the closest match from the types > specified in the window manager spec. Metacity has its own > interpretation how this type should be implemented. Details are in > Bugzilla: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115092 > > Unfortunately the metacity developers seem unwilling to fix this. If > all else fails, we will have to make the window type hint optional.
Oh. That is not going to be pleasant to resolve. :-( Thanks for the explanation in any case. I know where to point my guns now. > BTW: Take a look at the gtkrc file that is installed into your > personal gimp directory (~/.gimp-1.3). If you uncomment the line > that says class "GtkWidget" style "gimp-small-style", you get a > more compact GIMP user interface. Nice. Thanks. :-) Cheers, Malcolm _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
