Although the filter is intended to work that way, I consider it to be a bug. As you know, GIMP 2.9 is still under heavy development, an done of the pending things is to find-put a way to have the "classic" plug-ins installed back again on a running GIMP - that way, any regressions such as this could be work-arounded by installing the previous script. In this particular case, I am in favor of restoring the extra-layer creation behavior, or at least have a checkbox to imply it. The uses I myself make of "drop shadow" always require a separate layer. (For developers: I know that breaks the "a single gegl-op" paradigm for such a plug-in - since it would have to fiddle with the image layer stack - that means that some plug-ins can't simply become an op with automated GUI, but have to be actually coded and call GEGL and gimplib/pdb to manipulate the image) For now, if you can find the "drop-shadow.scm" file from any gimp2.8 (or less) install and put it in yours scripts dir, it will work. js -><- On 8 February 2015 at 10:26, Axel und Doris <ad-emmering@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello > > OnIRC-Channel they told me, it ist better to ask the developer directly or > write in the bug-report. So, I hope this is the right place now for my > question. > > I took a first look of the new development version 2.9. on my win7 system. > Great work! > My question: The new Filter “Drop Shadow” creates no extra layer. Is this a > bug or a new feature? > > It would be very importend for our work to get the shadow on an extra layer, > because we need it for extra manipulations. > It will be nice, if we have the choice to merge down the layers or not. > > > Thanks for your time to get it fixed. > do-se (this is my nick in the gimp-world) > > > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
