Jason Simanek wrote: > Has there been any discussion about doing away with the 'floating > selection' quasi-layer that occurs after copy/pasting in Gimp? hey, what a coincidence. actually last weekend at lgm there was a meeting (joao, pippin and me) about giving Elle Yan's 'on-canvas tool' SoC project a purpose. everybody agreed that the concrete goal should be tackling the 'floating selection', which involves some simple on-canvas controls and build/exercising the infrastructure for that. > I don't > mean to compare the Gimp to Photoshop, but it seems like this is a > place > where Photoshop does the right thing: when graphics are copy/pasted a > new layer is created. In my experience the floating selection > quasi-layer has little or no usefulness. > > A new layer is non-destructive. Why is there a need for this other > type > of layer? The name 'floating selection' isn't even accurate. This is a > collection of pixels. It is not a selection. A selection is an > ephemeral > mask not a collection of specific pixels. yes, 'floating paste' is a much better term. another coincidence: during my talk at the lgm: <http://river-valley.tv/a-first-outline-for-a-ui-for-a-fully-gegled-gimp/ > I talked about layer abuse, not by users, but by applications that make certain things only possible by introducing a new layer. that has to stop: only users get to decide how many layers they need for organising their composition. so pasting is going to be _in_ a layer (or mask or channel) and the controls for opacity, blend mode and anchoring will be on-canvas. there will be quite a few things to take care of, like new-layer-from-clipboard workflow, and they will be. > While I'm at it I also recommend that layer boundaries should be > disposed of. yep, that will happen, one day. --ps founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
