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<h3 class="title"><a id="gimp-docks"></a>3.4. Dialogs and Docking</h3>
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<h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-dock-separator"></a>Docking Bars</h4>
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A dock, with docking bars highlighted
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In Gimp 2.0 and 2.2, you have a lot of flexibility about the
arrangement of dialog windows on your screen. Instead of placing
each dialog in its own window, you can group them together using
docks. A "dock" is a container window that can hold a collection
of persistent dialogs, such as the Tool Options dialog, Brushes
dialog, Palette dialog, etc. Docks cannot, however, hold image
windows: each image always has its own separate window. They
also can't hold non-persistent dialogs, such as the Preferences
dialog or the New Image dialog.
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Each dock has a set of <span class="emphasis"><em>docking bars</em></span>, as
highlighted in the adjoining figure. These are thin gray bars,
very unobtrusive and easy not to notice: most people don't
realize that they exist until they are specifically pointed out.
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A dialog in a dock, with the drag handle area highlighted
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Each dockable dialog has a <span class="emphasis"><em>drag handle area</em></span>,
as highlighted in the figure on the right. You can recognize this
by the fact that the cursor changes to a hand shape when the
pointer is over the drag handle area. To dock a dialog, you
simply click on its drag handle area, and drag it onto one of the
docking bars in a dock.
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You can drag more than one dialog onto the same docking bar. If
you do, they will turn into tabs, represented by iconic symbols at
the top. Clicking on the tab handle will bring a tab to the
front, so that you can interact with it.
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A dock with an Image Menu highlighted
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<p>
Some docks contain an <span class="emphasis"><em>Image Menu</em></span>: a menu
listing all of the images open in GIMP, and displaying the name of
the image whose information is shown in the dock. You can use the
Image Menu to select a different image. If the
<span class="guilabel">Auto</span> button is depressed, then the menu always
shows the name of GIMP's currently active image, that is, the image
you are currently working on.
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By default, a "Layers, Channels, and Paths" dock shows an Image
Menu at the top, and other types of docks do not. You can always
add or remove an Image Menu, however, using the "Show Image Menu"
toggle in the Tab menu, as described below. (Exception: you
cannot add an Image Menu to the dock that contains the Toolbox.)
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A dialog in a dock, with the Tab menu button highlighted
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<p>
In each dialog, you can access a special menu of tab-related
operations by pressing the Tab Menu button, as highlighted in the
figure on the right. Exactly which commands are shown in the menu
varies a bit from dialog to dialog, but they always include
operations for creating new tabs, or closing or detaching tabs.
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Tab menu from the Layers dialog
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A Tab menu gives you acces to the following commands:
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<span class="term">Context Menu</span>
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<dd>
<p>
At the top of each Tab menu is an entry that opens into the
dialog's context menu, which contains operations specific to
that particular type of dialog. For example, the context menu
for the Patterns dialog contains a set of operations for
manipulating patterns.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Add Tab</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<a id="gimp-dock-tab-add"></a>
<p>
This entry opens into a submenu allowing you to add a large
variety of dockable dialogs as new tabs.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Close Tab</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<a id="gimp-dock-tab-close"></a>
<p>
This entry closes the dialog. Closing the last dialog in a
dock causes the dock itself to close. Choosing this menu
entry has the same effect as pressing the "Close Tab" button.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Detach Tab</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<a id="gimp-dock-tab-detach"></a>
<p>
This entry detaches the dialog from the dock, creating a new
dock with the detached dialog as its only member. It has the
same effect as dragging the tab out of the dock and releasing
it at a random location.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Preview Size</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<a id="gimp-dock-preview-size"></a>
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Preview Size submenu of a Tab menu
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</p>
<p>
Many, but not all, dialogs have Tab menus containing a
<span class="guilabel">Preview Size</span> option, which opens into a
submenu giving a list of sizes for the items in the dialog.
For example, the Brushes dialog shows pictures of all
available brushes: the Preview Size determines how large the
pictures are. The default is <span class="guilabel">Medium</span>.
</p>
</dd>
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<span class="term">Tab Style</span>
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Tab Style submenu of a Tab menu
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<p>
This entry is available when multiple dialogs are in the same
dock: it opens into a submenu allowing you to choose how the
tabs at the top will appear. There are five choices, not all
of which will be available for all types of dialogs:
</p>
<p>
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<span class="term">Icon</span>
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<dd>
<p>
This choice gives you an icon representing the dialog
type.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Current Status</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This choice is only available for dialogs that allow you
to select something, such as a brush, a pattern, a
gradient, etc. It gives you a tab showing a
representation of the item currently selected.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Text</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This choice gives you a tab showing the dialog type in
text.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Icon and Text</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This choice gives you wider tabs, containing both an
icon and the type of dialog in text.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Status and Text</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This choice, where available, shows the item currently
selected, as well as the type of dialog.
</p>
</dd>
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<p>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">View as List; View as Grid</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<a id="gimp-dock-view-as-list"></a>
<a id="gimp-dock-view-as-grid"></a>
<p>
These entries are shown in dialogs that allow you to select an
item from a set: brushes, patterns, fonts, etc. You can
choose whether to view the items as a vertical list, with the
name of each beside it, or as a grid, with representations of
the items but no names. Each has its advantages: viewing as
a list gives you more information, but viewing as a grid
allows you to see many more possibilities at once. The
default for this varies across dialogs: for brushes and
patterns, the default is a grid; for most other things, the
default is a list.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Show Image Menu</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This is a toggle. If it is checked, then an Image Menu is
shown at the top of the dock. It is not available for dialogs
docked below the Toolbox.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Auto Follow Active Image</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This is a toggle, and it is meaningless unless an Image Menu
is being shown. It causes the Image Menu, and hence the
contents of the dialog if they are image-related, to change to
follow whatever image you are working on at the moment.
</p>
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<h4 class="title"><a id="gimp-dockable-tab-close"></a>Removing Tabs</h4>
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A dialog in a dock, with the "Close Tab" button highlighted
</p>
<p>
Le bouton de fermeture d'un onglet
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<p>
If you want to remove a dialog from a dock, there are two ways you
can do it. First, if you click on the drag handle area and drag
the dialog away, releasing it someplace other than a docking bar,
it will form a new dock in its own right. Second, clicking on the
"Close Tab" button (highlighted in the figure to the right) will
close the frontmost dialog.
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<h4 class="title"><a id="id3307390"></a>Creating Dialogs</h4>
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<p>
Most dockable dialogs can be created in more than one way, but all
of them can be created using the
<span class="guimenu">File</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span>
menu from the Main Toolbox, or by using the <span class="guimenu">Add</span>
command in the Tab menu from any dialog. As a convenience, there
are also three pre-built docks you can create using the
<span class="guimenu">File</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Dialogs</span>-><span class="guisubmenu">Create New Dock</span>
menu path from the Main Toolbox:
</p>
<div class="variablelist">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term">Layers, Channels and Paths</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This gives you a dock containing:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul type="disc">
<li>
<p>
The Channels dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Layers dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Paths dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Undo dialog
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Brushes, Patterns and Gradients</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This gives you a dock containing:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul type="disc">
<li>
<p>
The Brushes dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Patterns dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Gradients dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Palettes dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Fonts dialog
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>
<span class="term">Misc. Stuff</span>
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This gives you a dock containing:
</p>
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul type="disc">
<li>
<p>
The Buffers dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Images dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Document History dialog
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The Image Templates dialog
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
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Just because you have a lot of flexibility does not mean that all
choices are equally good. There are at least two things we
recommend:
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<li>
<p>
Keep the Tool Options dialog docked directly beneath the
Main Toolbox at all times.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Keep the Layers dialog around at all times, in a separate
dock from the Main Toolbox, with an Image Menu above it.
(Use "Show Image Menu" in the dialog Tab menu to display the
Image menu if you have somehow lost it.)
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