Tuomo Valkonen has given me permission to distribute his thoughts on this issue here.
It is not a bug in Ion3. It is (a) brain damage in Gimp, and (b) bug in the user. (a) I assume you're using an old version of Ion: update, and you'll find that Ion will "unsqueeze" transients with sensible size hints out of the parent window's frame. This is a crappy arrangement, but allows it to be used with crappy programs to some extent. Of course, it may be that Gimp doesn't set the size hints of those dialogs to anything sensible. You can't these days expect Gtk shit to set any properties sensibly and in a timely manner. (b) Gimp's "lots of tiny toolbox windows" model is brain-damaged, and _obviously_ does not work well with something like Ion. If you have a tiny toolbox window in a tiny frame, and try to cram a dialog in it, obviously it won't work well. Decent apps would have only big "top level" document windows, and not a zillion toolboxes floating around cluttering the operating environment. The big document windows can then spawn short-lived transients, that fit will into their frames. Ion is designed to work with such applications; not with such unusable clutter-o-matics like the Gimp. (Although already a clutter-o-matic and much worse than Photoshop, Gimp1 was still barely usable. Recent versions have got absolutely unusable: it's impossible to even find one of those zillions of dialogs anymore, and it's disgustingly Gnomy.) -- GIMP open dialog doesn't work in Ion3 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/116853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
