Jennifer Mohr wrote: > After quite some time, I finally updated my GIMP from my beloved 2.4.7 > to 2.6.7. Upon starting up the new GIMP I saw the new design that GIMP > now had. I found that GIMP was much, much hard to use and made things > much more frustrating. > Oh, Jennifer, I'm sorry that this hit you like this. You are not alone. There was HUGE discussion on this list when it happened and many expressed exactly the same frustrations as you.
You can fix the first just by hitting the <tab> key. That makes your toolbox and layers dialog disappear giving you uncluttered access to your image. It turns out, after you get used to it, that it's better this way. The toolbox gets in the way less because you make it disappear, but it's more convenient because when you hit <TAB> again it's right on top where you can get to it. Before people would lose their toolbox behind and have to hunt for it. For the second issue, i.e. the menu's left the toolbox, that is because working without the toolbox window makes it more convenient to have the menus on the image window. That's also the reason that if you close your last image you get the blank window (almost blank, Wilbur's still there and you can drag and drop an image onto him. I think you'll find, after your habits get trained that this is actually better/easier/more productive, but I'm with you. It was tremendously annoying for a few days, then I decided they were geniuses. Patrick _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
