On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:10:55AM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > 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. > > what is the bug report. carol
