Interface Settings

Preview Size:

Set the size of the preview thumbnails present in e.g the Layers & Channels dialog. NOTE: That setting the size to None will disable the preview function.

Nav Preview Size:

Will affect the size of the navigation window present from the bottom right corner of the image widow or as right-click|View|Nav Window

Levels of Undo:

By default Gimp has five levels of undo. The amount of undo levels is only limited by disk space. A high amount of undo levels requires a large amount of disk space so use it with care. The default value is reasonably good for most use.

Resent Document List Size:

Will set the amount of previously opened or saved documents that you can direct access in the Toolbox|File menu.

Nav window per display:

If you check enable this feature the Navigation will behave like the Layers & Channels dialog with Auto enabled. I.e it will switch as you switch image.

Show Tool Tips:

Lets you enable or disable tool tips in Gimp.

Context Sensitive Help with "F1":

Lets you enable or disable the <ModKey>-F1 way of enabling context sensitive help. It can sometimes interfere with the window manager. You can still access the context help in the Toolbox|Help menu.

Image Windows Settings

Resize Window on Zoom:

Lets you enable (disable) window resize on zoom. Normally when you zoom the window size will not be affected. If you enable this function the size of the window will be fitted to the size of the image when you zoom in our out. I.e zoom in will enlarge the window and zoom out will shrink the window.

Show Rulers:

Controls what ever you want to show the rulers or not by default.

Show Statusbar:

Controls what ever you want to show the statusbar or not by default.

Marching Ants Speed:

When you make a selection in Gimp you will the will be a "blinking" boundary of the selection. This "blinking" boundary is refered as marching ants. This options controls how fast the ants will march.

Image Title Format:

Lets you set the window title of the image window. The default custom value is reasonably sane but you are able to choose form Standard, Show zoom percentage, Show zoom ratio, Show reversed zoom ratio and Custom. To build a custom image title can you use some macros along with ordinary characters.

Title Format

%%	literal percent sign
%f	bare filename, or "Untitled"
%F	full path to file
%p	PDB image id
%i	view instance number
%t	image type (RGB, indexed, grayscale)
%z	zoom factor as a percentage
%s	source scale factor
%d	destination scale factor
%D*	expands to * if the image is dirty

Perfect-but-slow Pointer Tracking:

When you are drawing in Gimp, Gimp will not catch your pointer every moment. Instead Gimp catch it a certain time interval. This means if you draw a circle very fast Gimp will not draw a circle but lines between each pointer grab. However if you turn on Perfect...Tracking Gimp will record every single movement and make a perfect circe even if you draw it very fast. You will however not be able to draw in real time instead that drawing will "played" with a time delay since you "recorded" every movement. (Well this is not exactly what's happens but it makes it easier to explain it this way).

Disable Cursor Updating:

Normally when you paint with e.g the airbrush you will have a little pencil as cursor. If you disable cursor updating the cursor will always be a little pencil even if you shift tool. I.e the cursor will always be the same shape as the last tool you used before you disabled updating.

Tool Options Settings

Use Global Paint Options:

Normally when you paint in Gimp you set the opacity and paint mode in the brush dialog. If you disable Use Global Paint Options you will have the opportunity to set both Opacity and paintmode separately for each tool (the tool option dialog will change and you will have new controls for opacity and paint mode).

Display brush and pattern indicators on Toolbar:

In the toolbox you have a area displaying the currently active brush, pattern and gradient. If you don't want the area to be present in the toolbox you can disable it here.

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