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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: GIMP and Photoshop user interfaces
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 08:54:54 -0700
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:46:45 +0100
Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Chronologically, what's out of place here is the main-window having a
> menu, or there even being a main window. This is the way GIMP used to
> work.

Either way you slice it, it's weird and superfluous - even in multi-
window mode, the document windows have their own copies of the menu bar
right there, and it's only the toolbox that's shared. Which, fair
enough (you can't rely on a Mac-style shared menu bar when almost no
other desktop environments provide that - Amiga is the only one that
springs to mind,) but it still shows a fundamental misunderstanding of
what context menus are *for.*