Re: GIMP and Photoshop user interfaces

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

Rich wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
 

On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 08:32:02 -0700, John Ames wrote:
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There is, AFAICT, still no way to view documents side-by- side in
SWM, despite GIMP's own internal dev wiki admitting that this is a
real need ...

>
So do it in multi-window mode.

 
Cool! I hadn't realized that existed in GIMP.

>
As far as I know, multi-window mode has been present in GIMP since GIMP
began.  The "everything packed into a single window" mode is a newer
add-on (and one that I have never enabled myself).

 
Since years, using GIMP, I was always presented with a single window.
 
Oh well.

Perhaps the packagers of GIMP for your distro decided to default their
package to be GIMP single window mode?