I have to rant or I'll go off th deep end and kick small furry animals. Since the first time I saw Gimp I've been hooked on it but we seem to have this love hate relationship going on. If Gimp has one thing about it that I can't stand it's that every thing in it is in separate windows and is scattered all over the place. I use two monitors and at first thought it was cool to keep all of my pallets and tool bars on one monitor while I have the other one with the main window maximized on the other. Eventually I found that I just prefer it if everything is in one place so I put it all on my main monitor. Ok, great. What really makes me mad is always every few seconds I have to resize the main window. Every change to the drawing means that I have to resize and reposition the window, sometimes I spend more time moving and resizing windows than I do working on the drawing. I've been through every setting I can think of in preferences with no results. I've saved window positions, set it to save on exit, everything I can think of and still I spend more time resizing windows and dragging them out from under my main tool window. I WISH I knew how to make them sit still. I feel a little better now and all the small furry animals in the neighborhood can rest easier.

I hear your frustration. It is my understanding that gimp 2.8 will be an all-in-one desktop. Users will have the option of the 3-window option too.

My favorite trick is to click outside a gimp window and have them all minimize to the taskbar. I've gotten pretty good at avoiding that but I still do it occasionally.

I've heard that about 2.8 too, I hope it's true, if it is then Gimp will only have one annoying thing left to it.

I don't know if you've seen this, but some of those features are awesome.

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-8-features-preview-april-2010.html

I was doing pretty well waiting for 2.8 before, now after reading that link I want it NOW.

didn't someone, maybe photocomix, make a virtual pin program...and would that keep the various windows sized and placed where you wanted them to stay?

if so I'd really be interested in getting it.

I found the link to his deviant art download of the pin by searching Gimp Talk..
http://photocomix-resources.deviantart. ... s-77124721

I have that little stick pin thingy but I don't find it that helpful cuz it does keep the window at the top but when you have to go back and forth to the tool windows it is a nuisance. It does stay permanently in your taskbar and easy to get at though...

Not sure if you guys know or not but 2.6.9 is available for download...lots of bug fixes, no new added features. =)
Download page - http://www.gimpusers.com/gimp-download.php
Changes from GIMP 2.6.8 to GIMP 2.6.9, taken from
http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.6
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* Bugs fixed:

612618 - Font selection remains visible
622234 - gimp.desktop: image/x-psd in MimeTypes twice
622196 - Unportable test(1) construct in configure script
620604 - Description of "histogram" procedure is slightly inaccurate
541586 - Tool options not saved/loaded correctly?
614153 - Importing PDF files with long titles
600112 - blur-gauss-selective.exe crashes
599233 - Dialog of "Save as BMP" ignores changes which are not made with a mous
565001 - Text-Tool crashes when edit a 2.4.2 version XCF file
610478 - Layer preview suddenly stops getting updated
609026 - leaks shared memory
609056 - Exporting to Alias PIX format fails
608188 - a few strings in Save as... > Raw image data dialog are always in English
604820 - GEGL Operation "path" crashes GIMP
603711 - Crashes when using path tool
607242 - GIMP 2.7.0 fails to build against libpng 1.4.0
606372 - Saving to .ppm fails on indexed colorspace
605237 - the "Antialiasing..." message in the progress bar does not show translated
604508 - gimp-layer-new-from-visible should work from updated projection

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