[Gimp-developer] Layer stack order

[Noel Stoutenburg <mjolnir ticnet com>]

Friends,

OK, maybe this is just a matter of a lack of user experience, but 
recently after having edited an image using "paste" in the GIMP edit 
menu (v. 2.6), I was mildly surprised to find out that the edits were 
not in the layer I expected to find them. When I made the copy, the 
floating layer appeared at the top of the stack in the layers dialog 
box, even though the active layer was a couple layers down. I wasn't 
paying much attention to the layers dialog during the copy / paste 
processes, and the pasted bits seemed to be in the layer I wanted them 
in. But they weren't. I didn't lose much here, the desired materials 
were moved into the proper layers with a minimum of effort, and as 
chance would have it, that the layers that the bits had been pasted into 
by mistake had nothing else of significance in them.

But it did lead me to wonder if the floating layer is always at the top, 
why this is so, as opposed to having the floating layer inserted into 
the stack of the layer dialog immediately above the active layer.

ns