Re: [Gimp-user] GIF layers

[Burnie West <west ieee org>]

On 08/21/2012 01:24 PM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 08:50:27PM +0200, ubuntulistener wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there a way to select all the layers in the Layers Window?  is:
> > I've got a GIF animation that's comprised of 590 individual layers, and
> > to work on specific layers, It'd be convenient to be able to hide all
> > the layers other than the layer I'm working on - maybe with a dialog
> > under Layers>>Stack>>Select all Layers>>Hide, or an "eye" checkbox at
> > the top or bottom of the Layers window that would select all layers,
> > thereby allowing me to "unhide" the selected layer by checking the "eye"
> > ,(show), checkbox of the relevant layer.
> >
> >
> > Currently, the only way I know of to work on a specific layer within
> > such a stack is to move the layer to the top of the stack so it becomes
> > the  visible layer, perform the work, then return the layer to its
> > original location.
> >
> > Thanks
> Why not read the wondeful GIMP manual? It is even translated... ;-)
>
> http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-dialogs-structure.html#gimp-layer-dialog
>
> Layer visibility
>
>      In front of the thumbnail is an icon showing an eye. By clicking on
>      the eye, you toggle whether the layer is visible or not.
>      (Shift-clicking on the eye causes all other to be temporarily
>      hidden.)
The word "temporarily" is misleading. The other layers remain
hidden until their eye icon is clicked. However, this is hardly worth
a bug report.