2.6.1 Bug??

I have been using ver 2.4.5. I downloaded and installed ver 2.6.1. The
line above the tools which contains File, Xtns and Help is missing. I tried
deleting and reloading it several times, but it is still missing. Finally,
I went back to 2.4.5 and it's OK. I thought that maybe there was a command
or something I could do to get it, but no luck.

Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

Stu Culp

Hi

This is the intended behaviour

In GIMP 2.6 the menu was moved into the image window, and that is why
it stays open even if you close all the images.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Stuart Culp <sdculp@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> I have been using ver 2.4.5. I downloaded and installed ver 2.6.1. The
> line above the tools which contains File, Xtns and Help is missing. I tried
> deleting and reloading it several times, but it is still missing. Finally,
> I went back to 2.4.5 and it's OK. I thought that maybe there was a command
> or something I could do to get it, but no luck.
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a bug?
>
> Stu Culp
>
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Hi,

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:41 -0400, Stuart Culp wrote:
> I have been using ver 2.4.5. I downloaded and installed ver 2.6.1. The
> line above the tools which contains File, Xtns and Help is missing. I tried
> deleting and reloading it several times, but it is still missing. Finally,
> I went back to 2.4.5 and it's OK. I thought that maybe there was a command
> or something I could do to get it, but no luck.
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

http://gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html


Sven

> I have been using ver 2.4.5. I downloaded and installed ver 2.6.1.
> The
> line above the tools which contains File, Xtns and Help is missing. I
> tried
> deleting and reloading it several times, but it is still missing.
> Finally,
> I went back to 2.4.5 and it's OK. I thought that maybe there was a
> command
> or something I could do to get it, but no luck.
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a bug?




Things have changed a bit, maybe look at

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/gimp-2-6-new-features.html



Owen

Thanks for the quick replies.

I hate to sound dense, but if there is no File-open function, how do you
get an image onto the page to start with? I tried dragging and dropping
but that didn't work.

When I open the program, all I get is a blank page with a tool bar and the
message "You can drop dockable dialogs here". And I have no idea what that
means, either.

Stu Culp

At 11:49 PM 10/22/2008 +0200, Jozef Legeny wrote:
>Hi
>
>This is the intended behaviour
>
>In GIMP 2.6 the menu was moved into the image window, and that is why
>it stays open even if you close all the images.
>
>On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Stuart Culp <sdculp@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> > I have been using ver 2.4.5. I downloaded and installed ver 2.6.1. The
> > line above the tools which contains File, Xtns and Help is missing. I tried
> > deleting and reloading it several times, but it is still missing. Finally,
> > I went back to 2.4.5 and it's OK. I thought that maybe there was a command
> > or something I could do to get it, but no luck.
> >
> > Am I missing something, or is this a bug?
> >
> > Stu Culp
> >
> >

Hi,

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 18:10 -0400, Stuart Culp wrote:

> I hate to sound dense, but if there is no File-open function, how do
> you get an image onto the page to start with? I tried dragging and
> dropping but that didn't work.

It would help a lot if you would also follow the link that I gave you
and read the release notes. When you start GIMP 2.6 there should be an
empty image window. This window has a menubar where you will find the
File menu.


Sven

Hi Sven,

I did read all the notes, links and all the instructions available, but
none gave a hint as to what was actually discovered by accident. When Gimp
opens up the first time, the tool menu covers the entire screen. Since the
tool menu always stays on top, nothing you do is visible and the File, etc.
menu and images are hidden from view. I assumed that by dragging the
visible screen smaller that the entire application was drug smaller, but
it's not the case. When the tools menu is drug to the proper size, all is
visible including the images.

Maybe this is a simple thing which should have been obvious, but I would
not have expected that the tools menu could be drug to full screen size.

At any rate, all is now well. Thanks for hanging in there with me.

Stu

At 07:57 AM 10/23/2008 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 18:10 -0400, Stuart Culp wrote:
>
> > I hate to sound dense, but if there is no File-open function, how do
> > you get an image onto the page to start with? I tried dragging and
> > dropping but that didn't work.
>
>It would help a lot if you would also follow the link that I gave you
>and read the release notes. When you start GIMP 2.6 there should be an
>empty image window. This window has a menubar where you will find the
>File menu.
>
>
>Sven

Hi,

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 09:16 -0400, Stuart Culp wrote:

> When Gimp opens up the first time, the tool menu covers the entire
> screen.

Looks like we are having a communication problem here. What is the tool
menu?? Perhaps you could show us a screenshot of the problem?


Sven

Stuart , I don't know if your problem was resolved , and you didn't say what
OS...but I had the same problems loading 2.6.1 under windows vista , if so
, when gimp starts is it showing the same old splash screen or the new one?
what I had to do was delete all the folders in ' users' and a few strange
places , I did a search on 'gimp' and got rid of all parts of the old
installs and then it installed clean...
ghk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Culp" <sdculp@roadrunner.com>
To: <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:41 PM
Subject: [Gimp-user] 2.6.1 Bug??


> I have been using ver 2.4.5. I downloaded and installed ver 2.6.1. The
> line above the tools which contains File, Xtns and Help is missing. I tried
> deleting and reloading it several times, but it is still missing. Finally,
> I went back to 2.4.5 and it's OK. I thought that maybe there was a command
> or something I could do to get it, but no luck.
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a bug?
>
> Stu Culp
>
>

Stuart ,
here is a link in a other forum of my fight
http://www.gimptalk.com/forum/windows-2-6-1install-making-me-nuts-t34840s75.html

Quoting lostgeorge@lostgeorge.com:

> Stuart , I don't know if your problem was resolved , and you didn't say what
> OS...but I had the same problems loading 2.6.1 under windows vista , if so
> , when gimp starts is it showing the same old splash screen or the new one?
> what I had to do was delete all the folders in ' users' and a few strange
> places , I did a search on 'gimp' and got rid of all parts of the old
> installs and then it installed clean...
> ghk
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Culp" <sdculp@roadrunner.com>
> To: <gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:41 PM
> Subject: [Gimp-user] 2.6.1 Bug??
>
>
>> I have been using ver 2.4.5. I downloaded and installed ver 2.6.1. The
>> line above the tools which contains File, Xtns and Help is missing. I tried
>> deleting and reloading it several times, but it is still missing. Finally,
>> I went back to 2.4.5 and it's OK. I thought that maybe there was a command
>> or something I could do to get it, but no luck.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or is this a bug?
>>
>> Stu Culp
>>
>>

Hi,

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 13:45 -0400, Stuart Culp wrote:

> When I opened Gimp the screen presented was gimpopenscreen.jpg
> (below). The main menu was not visible, so I opened (via keys) an
> image as shown by the tab at the bottom, but I had expected it to open
> in the general area designated by you can drop dockable dialogs here.

You had a GIMP 2.2 or a GIMP 2.4 installation on this computer, right?
If you could make the sessionrc file from your the ~/.gimp-2.2 or
~/.gimp-2.4 folder available, then we might be able to figure out what
went wrong and improve the migration from older versions.


Sven