On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:11 AM, David Gowers wrote: > Ah, I see the problem now. There is not an 'active channel'. > There is rather an 'active drawable' (and both layers and channels are > classified as drawables). This has always been the case (but perhaps > we can show this in a clearer way? I wonder what Peter thinks.) > >> >> So to paste into a channel you have to... >> >> - select the channel (in the channel panel) >> - edit > paste (or paste into) >> - select the layer panel >> - hit the anchor button >> - select the channel panel. > Note this is less confusing and faster when you have Anchor bound to a > keyboard shortcut. Select the channel, paste, anchor. (if you wanted > to change opacity or layer mode, you still have to switch to Layers > dialog though - ick!) > > David > I've been using gimp for 3 years and other than the standard cut copy paste, selections and a few on my own bound commands (reload scripts, save a working copy) haven't been able to memorize more keyboard shortcuts, guess my brain is too old ;) My opinion (which probably breaks some other intended behaviour) is that if the active drawable is a channel, pasting should default to a paste into that active channel, and not create a floating selection (over in the layers palette). A second option would be to have floating selections appear in any drawable palette, along with a method to anchor them (but that starts to get messy). P.S. sorry for this ramble...but I am finding this discussion on channel usage incredible helpful. -Rob A> _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
