Re: [Gimp-user] Layer Opacity Access Point(s) Madness

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 12:22 +0200, Michael Natterer wrote:
>
> > > I think the OP is concerned because the opacity slider does not affect the
> > > active layer.
>
> It does.
>
> The UI would be massively clearer if the opacity slider was moved down
> under the other layer-specific controls and maybe under the list of
> layers, or under the actual layer name - it's not obvious today that the
> opacity slider applies to the layer selected in the list beneath it.

IMO, this is worth thinking about. Right now it's not possible to have
an overlook of each layer's opacity. OTOH, one might argue a visible
slider for each layer would clutter UI.

Alexandre