Re: [Gimp-user] 2.8 toolbox

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 2:50 PM, rosea.grammostola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Moving from 2.6 to 2.8. I was used to the toolbox displaying extra options
> for a tool, lets say text tool (font, position, color, etc.). But using 2.8
> I don't get these options (there is only text saying 'drop dockable stuff
> here'.

You can reopen tool's options dialog via Windows -> Dockable Dialogs
menu and then dock it wherever you like.

> Also the text tool seems to have changed, now displayed in the canvas. Apart
> from missing the options mentions before, I find the text tool is covering
> my workspace in an unpleasant way atm.

Being able to directly format the text without going to the sidebar
and back all the time is unpleasant?

Alexandre