Re: [Gimp-user] layers, new problem with old methods

[bgw <west ieee org>]

On 01/21/2013 03:10 PM, Richard Gitschlag wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:06:41 -0500
> > From: admin pilobilus net
> > To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] layers, new problem with old methods
> >
> > Right now I can't think of a way to improve on the existing
> > "floating layer" workflow.
> >
>
> I can -- perhaps not changing the actual functionality but the manner in which 
> it is displayed in the layer list.  For example, say my layer stack is:
>
> - C
> - B
> - A
>
> Say I make/float/paste a selection using layer B.  My layer stack now displays:
>
> - Floating selection
> - C
> - B
> - A
>
> Here's the problem:  The floating selection is not at the "top" of the layer 
> stack - it is actually between layers B (the source layer) and C (the layer 
> above it).  The layer stack SHOULD display:
>
> - C
> - Floating selection
> - B
> - A
>
> This makes it visually clear WHICH layer the float came from.
>
> (Or, alternatively: )
>
> - C
> - B
> - - Floating selection
> - A
>
> Which is something of a group-like display, but again this makes clear which 
> layer the float belongs to.

This is substantially my experiment, Steve - It takes simply replacing "floating 
selection" by "create layer group with current layer and selection above it" but 
I confused the issue by responding to gimp-developer rather than gimp-user. What 
I suggested in the developer list was

"How about automatically creating a layer group with the selection layer above a 
copy of the original layer?
This appears (at a quick glance) to work in nested layer groups as well. -- "

  -- Burnie