Re: [Gimp-developer] feature: Set exclusive layer visibility within groups

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion mpc com br>]

Ok -
we it can be seen that there are a couple of desired/needed visibility
features when
group layers are in the mix.

Since any native changes to existing behavior could only come in gimp
2.10 (and only them we would have the feedback of lots o people just
as we are having now with 2.8) - this is what could be done now:

We document desired perceived behaviors for toggling visibility, I
write a couple of Python scripts to implement those - we test it
carefully (with input from the UI team), and the optimal settings for
those could be consolidated in gimp 2.10 .

 The major drawback being that these scripts can be called by a
one-key shortcut, but not assigned to be triggered by clicking/shift
clicking on the layers or eye-icons, or other UI parts. Once there are
clear and well defined preferred behaviors, they could be made into
the core bypassing this limitation.


So, we could use a wiki page somewhere for getting this started.
Like here:

http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Specs/Visibility



On 26 May 2012 13:59, Richard Gitschlag <strata_ranger hotmail com> wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 11:21:35 +0200
>> From: gfx user online de
>> To: gimp-developer-list gnome org
>> Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] feature: Set exclusive layer visibility
>> within groups
>>
>> It's a bit hard to understand what you mean exactly in your further
>> writing. Can you write down a state chain, please?
>>
>
> Give an example?  Sure.  Let's say I have an image with the following layer
> tree:
>(...)