Re: [Gimp-user] Redesign "move selection"?

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 20/10/16 19:30, lofreq wrote:
> So my two questions are as follows, I guess:
>
> 1. Is it at all possible to just click and drag selections? Why is it necessary
> to hold down ctrl+alt to accomplish this?

Because click without key modifiers has other uses. Maybe you shouldn't 
be using
selections on a bigger layer,  and instead be using a text layer for 
each piece of text.
> 2. Is the masking behavior of floating layers a bug or a feature? Either or, it
> needs fixing. Or at the very least a toggle, because I can't imagine a single
> instance where that would be preferable to just using an actual mask.
What you want is Layer>Layer to image size.