The question Albert raised about group isolation got me thinking.
Perhaps group isolation should be the default now. If it's complicated
to explain what it is, and isn't in its most useful state by default,
maybe we should invert the concept and call its toggle something else!

Some naming ideas:

 - "Simple Container"
 - "Container Only"
 - "Grouping Only"
 - "Contents Affect Backdrop"
 - "Mere Aggregation" :)

If we do that, then toggling the setting deserves a more complicated
UI. Maybe we should have its command turn off any special modes and
opacities as part of the same undoable operation, and and make setting
opacity or mode on such a "mere container" group impossible.

This won't require any changes to the ORA format, and we'd still be
able to load old files correctly. It's just an interpretation of the
layer flag.

Minor stuff we need to sort out: I want different icons for isolated
and nonisolated groups, and the default one should probably resemble a
folder rather than a pile of layers :)  "Folder" and "Folder with
porous boundaries"?

-- 
Andrew Chadwick

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