Re: [Gimp-developer] v2.8.2 copy/paste

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:06 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Nik Omul wrote:
> > Hi,
> > In v2.8.0 you can drag a layer, hover it over other image tab and, when that
> > image opens,
> > drop it down to perform copy_layer/paste_as_new_layer procedure.
> > In v2.8.2 it's not working this way anymore (Windows). Is this a permanent
> > change to GIMP?
> 
> It's a bug. Confirmed on Linux.

It's this one: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676522

The reason why this "worked" in 2.8.0 was because of another bug:
switching tabs was not really switching images internally, this
got fixed, breaking the "accidential" feature you are talking about.

Single window mode was simply never really finished, we'll try
to get it right in 2.10.

--mitch