On Tue, 16 May 2000, David Necas wrote: > > Making the background layer "special" is not very intuitive. > > > > ... > > > > What do you think? > > NO, please. <snip> > The only good solution is probably to make `Add Alpha Channel' more > intuitive. The user should _see_ the background layer is special---lacks > something---and there must be some obvious way how to add it. (But is > there an obvious way how to manage this?) How about changing the layers dialog box so the background layer appears solid and the layers with alpha have a gradient-to-checker background. This way one can tell at a glance if a layer has alpha or not. This is hard to describe. If anyone is interested I'll mark up a screengrab of how this might look. -- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/ "Everybody loves the GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/
