[Gimp-developer] 2.6 roadmapping, the UI part of it...

[Thorten Wilms]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 07:20 -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:

> Using 2.4.0, I tried opening three images, and typing ctrl-L in each
> to open a layers dialog.  It only opened the one dialog (and again, as
> soon as I move the mouse into one of the images, the image in the
> layers dialog changes).

Ctr-l or menu does not open another layers dialog, true.
Do you see the "Auto" button next to the image list menu-box ...?

> Nor was I able to do it from either the file menu on the toolbox or
> the dialogs menu on the images.

It can be done from the tab menu -> Add Tab -> Layers.


Anyway, I see two approaches for dealing with the image / layers (or
similar dialog) relation:
- Always attach everything relating to just one image to its image
window
- Use inspectors like now

The former has the potential to be less confusing and would make showing
several layer stacks straightforward. Size requirements for an image and
its layer stack might be quite different, though.


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