Hi,
Carol Spears <carol@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>> This is not new behaviour.
>>
> fairly new. there is no way that i did not make that mistake ever with
> gimp-1.2.
This is from the gimp-1-2 source code (app/floating_sel.c):
/* Check if the floating layer belongs to a channel... */
if (GIMP_IS_CHANNEL (layer->fs.drawable))
{
g_message (_("Cannot create a new layer from the floating\n"
"selection because it belongs to a\n"
"layer mask or channel."));
return;
}
Sven
