GIMP 2.7.2 Released — Another Step Toward 2.8

An anonymous reader writes "The developers of GIMP have finally released a new development version on the way to GIMP 2.8. GIMP 2.7.2 includes a huge bunch of changes — but it is not intended for production use. 'The new release comprises layer groups (which were introduced after 2.7.1), an almost done text-on-canvas feature, the all-new brush engine and of course the new single window mode.'"

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Re:One reason alone

[metamatic]

Yeah, the problem with GIMP isn't the floating windows.

The problems are:

1. The floating windows continue to float on top of everything else even when GIMP drops down the window stack and they become useless.
2. You can't lift other windows above GIMP's floating windows, no matter how hard you try.
3. Clicking one of GIMP's floating windows doesn't bring GIMP to the front of the window stack.
4. Clicking the main GIMP window doesn't bring the floating windows to the front.

You can fix some of these problems by changing the window hints under Window Management. If you set the toolbox and docks to "normal window" or "utility window", they no longer hog screen estate; you can raise other windows above them. However, the third and fourth problems still apply.

Seriously, how hard is it to make all GIMP's windows behave as a single unit, but not actually have them be one window? Wouldn't that make everyone happy?