Method to add File Menu to Toolbox?

Hi Gimp-user,

A couple of years ago I ran across a blog that talked about organizing
The Gimp into 1 window. I really liked this layout. I spent some time
dragging and docking so when I had no images open, there was 1 window,
the Toolbox.

This window consisted of: the File Menu at the top, then the Toolbox
below that, then a series of Dialogs below that in a horizontal row,
starting with Layers, Channels, Paths, History, Color, Brushes,
Patterns, Gradients, and ending with Tool Options. When I wanted to
create or open an image, do a screen capture, change Gimp Preferences,
I just went to the Toolbox that had a large presence on the right-hand
side of my desktop.

With the recent version of The Gimp, the File Menu was removed from
the Tool Box window, and now there are 2 windows at all times. When I
want to open an image, do a screen capture, change The Gimp
Preference, etc, I have to rummage around for a currently open image
to access the File menu. These usually are minimized.

Does anyone know of a way to get the File Menu back on the Toolbox, or
to get the interface to work like it did in the past in version 2.2?

I did find (toobox-wilber no) at gimpbook.com/tips.html. I added that
to gimprc to remove the empty space at the top of the Toolbox. Now if
the File Menu was back on the Toolbox, life would be good again :-)

Thank you.

DJ wrote:
> Hi Gimp-user,
>
> With the recent version of The Gimp, the File Menu was removed from
> the Tool Box window, and now there are 2 windows at all times. When I
> want to open an image, do a screen capture, change The Gimp
> Preference, etc, I have to rummage around for a currently open image
> to access the File menu. These usually are minimized.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to get the File Menu back on the Toolbox, or
> to get the interface to work like it did in the past in version 2.2?

Hi,

You can't get the toolbox menu back, but you can press Tab to hide the
Toolbox and any Dialogs, leaving you with only one window and a menu
again, the empty image window.

- Martin

Hi,

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:35 -0600, DJ wrote:

> With the recent version of The Gimp, the File Menu was removed from
> the Tool Box window, and now there are 2 windows at all times. When I
> want to open an image, do a screen capture, change The Gimp
> Preference, etc, I have to rummage around for a currently open image
> to access the File menu. These usually are minimized.

It goes even further. The toolbox and dock windows are supposed to be
hidden if all your image windows are minimized (unfortunately this
doesn't work correctly with all window managers). So just forget about
the idea of adding a file menu to the toolbox. The toolbox is not a
normal toplevel window any longer, it's just a utility window for the
active image window.


Sven

So just forget about
>the idea of adding a file menu to the toolbox. The toolbox is not a
>normal toplevel window any longer, it's just a utility window for the
>active image window.
>
>
>Sven

Sorry, I'm not going to "forget about it". I want it back the way it was -
with the File menu at the top of the toolbox window, the toolbox window
behaving as a normal toplevel window, and no default blank image window. It's
much more convenient that way.

The new layout is just annoying and the change is pointless.

So. How does one go about restoring the File menu to the toolbox window and
getting rid of the redundant default image window?

Thankyou.

Pigeon wrote:
> So just forget about
>
>> the idea of adding a file menu to the toolbox. The toolbox is not a
>> normal toplevel window any longer, it's just a utility window for the
>> active image window.
>>
>>
>> Sven
>>
>
> Sorry, I'm not going to "forget about it". I want it back the way it was -
> with the File menu at the top of the toolbox window, the toolbox window
> behaving as a normal toplevel window, and no default blank image window. It's
> much more convenient that way.
>

Hi Pigeon

There is no way to get the menu back and no such way is going to be
added. The only way to get a menu in the toolbox is to use GIMP 2.4.
There were many reasons to get rid of the toolbox menu, one being that
two menubars in one application is just plain wrong. For more reasoning
behind the change, refer to the UI specification [1]

BR,
Martin

[1] http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/No_image_open_specification