I recently switched over to a tiling window manager. There's a bit of a learning curve but the payoff is well worth it. At least, for me it is.

Part of the fun is coming up with new ways of looking at old things. Knowing that GIMP uses separate windows for toolboxes and such I thought I'd see if I could get creative with the layout. And I did. I managed to get all the important boxes onto one separate workspace so I can see them in large scale all at once;

This is still just an experiment. At the moment it's too awkward switching back and forth for it to be really useful. And I would ideally prefer for each individual menu to be in its own window. I could arrange it so the menus were narrow enough to all fit and the focused menu/window expanded to give a better view. But first I have to figure a way to make it easier to access the menus.

I think the extra viewing space is really nice. I thought I'd share the experiment to see what y'all thought.

That's . Be good especially when you want to choose a font....you can see what they all look like at once. Actually I already had my brushes and patterns like that but not my fonts

If you really mean menus, you do know they have tear-offs (the dotted lines across the top of each menu) so can be put into individual windows?


Kevin

I want to expand things even more. I really want each dialog to be its own window. I can tab the windows and switch between them with the keyboard. But that may take more coding knowledge than I possess.


I do tend to use "menu" for any box that lets me pick things If I can get these dialogs working the way I want, my next task will be to see if I can't get the filter menu opened up a bit. That may involve pasting the tear-offs into a larger window. Or it may, again, involve more knowledge than I possess.

Hi,

How can I switch the view to a tiling arrangement, such as the one shown. I want this view for gradient and fonts as well.

It's not something that is done in GIMP. It's done with the window manager I use in Linux. I really don't think I have the skill to explain it.

I still prefer the unified window although i do have my tabs arranged in a similar way to you.