Re: [Gimp-developer] RFE: single window mode: always show tab

[Martin Nordholts <enselic gmail com>]

2012/1/4 wwp <subscript free fr>:
> Hello Alexia,
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:09:47 +0200 Alexia Death <alexiadeath gmail com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Martin Nordholts <enselic gmail com> wrote:
>> > Hi again and thanks for the great clarification. I completely agree,
>> > there should be no flickering or re-arranging of layouts. The only
>> > change should be the insertion/removal of the tab bar (without moving
>> > any images in the screen coordinate system). Unfortunately I don't
>> > have the time to write the code to fix this :( Anyone else that want
>> > to take a shot might want to look how this is solved when Windows ->
>> > Hide Docks is toggled.
>>
>> I may take a look at it. Let's see if I understood the goal: Make tab
>> bar show and disapear without canvas and anything on it moving.
>> Correct? It sounds like the intuitive and nice way to do it.
>
> This will (should) be solved if showing the tab bar is always TRUE.
> Meaning, showing it also when only 1 document is open; I guess it's
> useless (but harmless) to show it when zero document is open.

When only 1 document is open, showing the tab bar wastes precious
vertical screen real estate. We should not solve this by always
showing the tab bar.

/ Martin


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