Hi, Carol Spears <carol@xxxxxxxx> writes: > if i try to "New Layer" a floating layer that has been pasted onto a > mask, gimp refuses with an error message. Sure, it has always worked like that. > for my limited understanding of the reason for floating layers to still > exist, this behavior tells me that the need for them has gone. if gimp > can tell the difference between a drawable or an image -- and it > obviously does, there is no need for this floating step. also, since > you cannot see the layer while it is floating, there is no positioning > that can be done. > > can floating layers go away now? the arguments for them have ceased to > have meaning. There is no such thing as a floating layer, it's called a floating selection. Your argumentation is flawed. Of course if I paste something into a layer mask, I want to be able to position it. That's the whole point of a floating selection. This has, IMO, been discussed enough in Bugzilla. There is certainly room for improvement here and I am all for reducing floating selections as well as for making them easier to deal with. But we can certainly not get rid of them completely. That would be a major regression. Sven
