Re: [Gimp-gui] Layer mask button for the layers toolbar, feature additions?

["draekko.software" <draekko software gmail com>]

On 12/14/2015 11:37 PM, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 15:00 -0500, Ben wrote:
> > I had posted a patch to a bug report to add support for a button to
> > be
> > added to the toolbar for the layer dialog/widget (see
> > https://imgur.com/wkyxoqM), but it's been suggested i post here for
> > starters to start a dialog. So here i go :)
> >
> > I was wondering what the reticence to having the button there was.
> For my part it makes the dock too wide.
>
> I think I'd rather have a context-menu-affordance button equivalent to
> right-clicking on the selected layer.
I've made an alternate patch to the button one that instead lets you 
ctrl-click the image for the layer to add /  remove a layer mask and the 
ability to set a preset setting in the prefs dialog. 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759601 if you compile it let 
me know what you think.