Re: [Gimp-developer] Painting on a text layer, turning it into a regular layer?

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 08/29/17 00:55, Elle Stone wrote:
> I wasn't actually trying to paint on a text layer. But I had 
> inadvertently selected a text layer when I used the brush tool, and 
> the text disappeared under the paint.
>
> Is this new behavior? This is from babl/GEGL/GIMP from git updated 
> this morning (commit 188a82552b).
>
> I'm kind of hoping this is a bug and not the actually intended behavior.

AFAIK it has always been that way. Any change to a text layer outside of 
the Text tool turns it into a plain raster layer.