On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 07:49:53AM -0700, William Skaggs wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote: > > > I don't think this needs any further discussion. I doubt that anyone > > would seriously disagree that floating selections should be removed or > > at least reduced. The point is that it needs an experienced GIMP > > hacker who wants to tackle this task. > > There is an almost trivial way of making floating selections > disappear from the user's point of view: just cause any > operation that creates a floating selection to automatically > convert it to a new layer. > > The problem with this is that it would eliminate some very > useful functionality: the ability to paste into a layer mask > or selection mask (in QMask mode). Actually, it isn't obvious > to me what even an experienced Gimp hacker could do to keep > this functionality while removing floating selections. > leave Selection -->Float there. make all other paste operations paste directly into a new layer. allow Floating Selections all the priveleges and cpu it historically has had. carol
