Public bug reported:
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)
** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty running-unity
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