On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:42:06PM +0100, Jens Lautenbacher wrote: [snip] > > I'd vote for always having an alpha layer. seems to be cleaner > conceptually. I'd vote AGAINST this. Imagine if you use GIMP without any layer functionality, and suddenly you find that cut & erase change to do different things in version 1.4, and the only way to get them back to normal (for you) is through a strange hack involving multi-colored layers. I do like the idea of implicit alpha on the operations Sven mentioned... Zach -- xach@xxxxxxxx Zachary Beane http://www.xach.com/
