by Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Sep 20th 2009 at 10:00AM
The GIMP is one of those applications that people either seem to love or
hate. While it's always been a powerful and capable alternative to big
commercial apps like Photoshop, GIMP's multiple floating window interface
Good news to those of you who love the program but just couldn't adapt
to the UI: version 2.8 will feature a selectable single window mode. As
you can see in the mock-up above, it's a much more Photoshop-like
experience. Hardcore GIMP fans, don't despair. If you've been convinced
that multi-window mode is a superior way to work, you won't have to change.
GIMP developers have also been looking at ways of better handling
multiple images in the editor. Tabs, of course, were added in Photoshop
CS4. Don't expect to see them in GIMP 2.8, however. Peter Sikking offers
three reasons in his blogs post that they have decided not to use tabs,
instead opting for a movable thumbnail tray (image after the break).
Read more...
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/09/20/at-long-last-gimp-v2-8-to-finally-implement-single-window-inter/
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