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(01-05-2026, 05:21 AM)teapot Wrote: This is probably a silly question but what is singular in single-window mode? I used to think it meant literally one window but you can have dockable dialogs as separate windows in both single-window mode and multi-window mode.
Lots of questions, "what is singular in single window mode" Yes, you can have floating docks as required but there is one image showing (that is the singular), other open images you get from the tabs.
Quote:Hitherto I have used multi-window mode mainly for two reasons:
1. I put in long layer names to document what I did and often have many layers so having the layers dialog as a separate window allows me to easily adjust it's size.
2. I often like to see more than one image side by side, or a new view of an image along side the original.
This was all fine in gimp 2.10.
In gimp 3 I'm finding window management in multi-window mode OK when one image is open but pretty unusable when more than one is open.
There is a difference (bug ?) between versions. No adding a dock under Tools + tool options. Best I can get is side-by-side like this, with three docks stacked.
It would be nice if opened images tiled or stacked in some way from within Gimp. Usability then reverts to what your OS has. Linux KDE has options like this: ctrl-F9 shows the open image windows and you can choose which image to make active.
There is also "shading" a window or dock to make the desktop less cluttered.
Quote:So I'm thinking I could use single-window mode but with dockable dialogs as separate windows, e.g. the layer dialog on it's own and several others docked together also in a separate window. Point 1. would still be OK but not point 2. I'm guessing you can't see more than one image at a time in single-window mode, not even a new view, is that what the single refers to?
In single window mode the docks as separate windows is no problem. The snag is having more than one image showing, that means back to multi window mode. As with most Gimp it has come up before, When Gimp was only multi window there was a plugin "dewyrdifier" which provided an type of single window mode.
Maybe someone will come up with a plugin to show an original / edited image side by side. It might come about in Gimp 3.2 with linked layers.