Re: [Gimp-gui] Force Toolbox Widgets To Bottom

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On 10/15/15, Elle Stone wrote:

> Yes, I resize the Toolbox from time to time, and I find the ability to
> resize the Toolbox very handy, depending on whether I want more room for
> the image, or more room to read the layer names (I end up with large
> layer stacks, and so I label all the layers to keep track of what layer
> does what).

Again, this is an example of things that are wrong with current GIMP's UI :)

You should not have to resize the toolbox just to see layer names.
Long names should be ellipsized, with full names being displayed in
tooltips when you hover. This is how it works pretty much everywhere.
I had a patch on that in the works, but it broke a few things that I
could not immediately figure out.

> Here's a screenshot showing the left edge of the screen, showing the
> Toolbox and an image window, in which I free up some vertical real
> estate by hiding the menu bar:
> http://ninedegreesbelow.com/bug-reports/gimp29/gimp-toolbox.png

Let's just say that the tools' options dialog should never be that
wide in the first place, and it's something on mitch's roadmap since,
like, dawn of times.

Alex