Re: [Gimp-gui] Paths should be visible by default

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 27/09/16 23:37, Jehan wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Right now paths are made invisible on creation, which means so see it 
> when you have the path tool activated, but as soon as you choose 
> another tool, it looks like it disappeared: 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708124
>
> Actually it is there, simply not visible. Solution is to click on the 
> "eye" icon on the path dock.
>
> I think this makes no sense. Anything new should be visible by default 
> (for instance you don't make a layer invisible as a default!).
>
> Could we agree on changing this or was there a secret reason for this 
> weird behavior?
>
> Jehan
There are some operations where the user doesn't deal directly with the 
path. And plenty of case where you want these to get out of the way.

That could he a preference. or maybe a better solution would be a menu 
entry "View>Show active path", and a hot key with that.