Richard Gitschlag wrote:
> I'm also missing two other possibilities in changing layers' visibility:
> 1) Only one layer can be selected at one time. It can be useful to make
> just a few layers visible while hiding the others. Could it be made
> possible to multiselect layers?
That is an unrelated question. As far as I know GIMP only allows one
'active' layer at a time because that is the surface that any drawing
operations are applied to.
As long as drawing operations are the only operations in GIMP, this
would be a reason. But there are other scenarios where a multiselection
of layers will be useful: merging a few layers down to one without
having to affect visibility of the other layers, copying some layers to
another image, moving some layers into a layer group and so on. Yes it's
a bit unrelated to your original problem. Maybe a topic for another
thread if it's of enough interest.
It's a bit hard to understand what you mean exactly in your further
writing. Can you write down a state chain, please?
BTW: AFAIK layer groups are still work in progress. At least layer masks
are postponed for a later version. Filters don't work (yet) on layer
groups, too (see bug #676768). Are there some UI specs for the handling
of layers and layer groups? Maybe they answer all our questions and
suggestions here. I haven't found them on gui.gimp.org, but perhaps I
searched in the wrong place.
Best regards,
grafxuser
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