First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp – It Looks AMAZING.

By , Published October 6, 2009

The first glimpse at the long-awaited (and much-desired) single window Gimp has been posted on GIMP developer Martin Nordholts blog.

He updates that progress is coming on well, spurred on in part by the “overwhelmingly positive” reaction the new single window mode has received.

Support for multiple images inside one window via tabs (Like Photoshop CS4-ish) is also to be implemented in the forthcoming release, as well as dockable toolbars and tool docks.

Mmmhmm

It’s odd how much of a difference a unified interface for an application like The Gimp can make – but it’s evident from the picture above how much cleaner, refined and just gawd darn sexy it looks.

I really cannot wait until Gimp 2.8 is released proper and i can fully start to utilize the power of The Gimp (especially since 2.8 will finally have on-canvas text editing, too!). It’s quite pathetic sounding to say that the floating panels the Gimp currently uses puts me off, but it does!

Try out the new single window version yourself! Install details @ omgubuntu.co.uk/install-simgle-window-gimp

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Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    please man, remove that yellow highlight in your articles

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Haha! Any particular reason?!

      • AW

        It’s so scary.

        • http://www.manishsinha.net Manish Sinha

          Really? It is for highlighting

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, sorry, I’ve got to agree with Seif Sallam. It looks really bad and unprofessional. D:

    • Ben

      Thirded. Sorry, d0od, but your blog deserves better.

    • http://www.xoen.org/ Aldo “xoen” Giambelluca

      LOL

  • tomas
    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I’ve looked at it, not tried it on linux. it doesn’t seem like the “ideal” solution tbh when gimp is both native and more powerful.

    • Mohan

      I like Paint.net, it is very good program and cool project (Master’s project at University of Washington). Last I check Paint mono was very early in development. I should try it out now, thanks.

    • Anonymous

      Paint.mono has been very unstable in my experience. I like Paint.NET on windows, but I feel like GIMP is better and more powerful overall.

  • Mohan

    Wow…that looks way more professional than the 3 window layout!

  • Anonymous

    makes me happy i have recommended gimp to many people and alot of them didnt like the layout of it and stopped using it :(

  • Anonymous

    That looks awesome!

  • Anonymous

    Finally! The floating panels really really tick me off. It’ll be so much nicer to have a single window.

  • pt45

    for every goose that hasn’t figured Linux DE provides multiple workpaces, compiz, always on top feature to use a multi-windowed GIMP

  • Ben

    So damned excited. There’s nothing worse than having to shift back through windows to select another tool.

    • Name

      Or you can use “TAB” to show and hide the tools/layers windows

      • Ben

        I didn’t know that. Thank you.

        I still think it’s easier to have it right there, though.

      • http://www.xoen.org/ Aldo “xoen” Giambelluca

        I use [TAB] for hide/show tools/layers but trust me is not so comfortable, this option is great for who use GIMP at “human” resolutions, can’t wait :)!

  • Yfrwlf

    They need to have detachable windows, it’s that simple. You should have the option to have separate floating windows if you want to, so I’m glad that will be implemented in future versions. Everything should be detachable!

    BTW I don’t mind your yellow highlighted titles, don’t see what the big deal is. ^^ Goes with your site theme, but you might find something that looks nicer and still does, dunno.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      single window mode will be optional – so multi-window preferrers can still get their workspaces in a muddle to their hearts content! :P

      Re: the yellow highlighted titles – THANK YOU for getting they were part of the ‘theme’ of the blog, sadly so many people don’t like them that’ll i’m removing them :(

      • Ben

        Regarding the highlights, it just looks like someone’s gone around with a highlighter on your site. It looks a little too…comical, perhaps.

        I think perhaps orange would be more appropriate, rather than bright yellow. I think the colour of the bottom bar, but with a slightly lower saturation (I think around 200 looks good, but that may just be me).

  • Name

    Yeah! Finally! I’ve always wanted to love Gimp but for the separate windows.

  • http://saltmypeanuts.com rpcutts

    About damn time. I don’t know why this was overlooked so long when so many people were crying out for it.

    But at least it’s happening now. I’ll be able to use gimp without wanting to kill myself.

  • http://otakupride.com/ Jim Robert`

    THANK GOD! Gimp will finally re-enter the arena of useful imaging software (to me)