Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 26.03.2015 um 09:50 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine: 26 марта 2015 г. 12:27 пользователь Tobias Oelgarte написал: Why not combine both approaches? For example: - Left click on New-Layer Button: Create a layer of the same type the user added last time. Left-click on a button in a dialog is not

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 03/28/2015 07:54 PM, Gez wrote: I'm baffled to learn that the default used to be creating a new transparent layer but it was changed back because people didn't find it, pretty much the same way they are not finding that alt+click creates a new transparent layer now. It is Shift+Click,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Gez
El sáb, 28-03-2015 a las 05:28 -0400, Elle Stone escribió: On 03/27/2015 10:45 PM, Gez wrote: It seems reasonable to require an extra click for committing extra options and having the most commonly used option accessed quickly, without interruptions to the workflow. What's the most

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Joseph Bupe
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Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Elle Stone
On 03/28/2015 07:00 AM, Ofnuts wrote: These contextual menus are a mixed blessing. Of course they make things simple, but it can be somewhat too simple. How will new users discover options or functionalities that are new to them(*)? The people who really benefit from this are the advanced users

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Ofnuts
On 28/03/15 11:46, Michael Schumacher wrote: A context menu that acts like a real context menu, i.e. shows options that are most relevant to the current context either exclusively or at least in some kind of prominent position, e.g. at the top. This has been discussed a few times already, but

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Simon Budig
Gez (lis...@ohweb.com.ar) wrote: El vie, 27-03-2015 a las 09:16 -0400, Elle Stone escribió: On 03/26/2015 08:16 PM, Ofnuts wrote: It was also not so obvious to some more advanced users :) let's face it, in a software with the breadth of Gimp, everyone is going to overlook some feature.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Elle Stone
On 03/27/2015 09:59 AM, Joseph Bupe wrote: It would be better to have short-cut menu that corresponds to the layer content. That way issues like this one wouldn't arise. For instance, if I have a selection with matching ants, the menu would have options like: - fill selection with fg colour -

Re: [Gimp-developer] Create New Layer Button

2015-03-28 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 03/28/2015 10:40 AM, Elle Stone wrote: On 03/27/2015 09:59 AM, Joseph Bupe wrote: It would be better to have short-cut menu that corresponds to the layer content. That way issues like this one wouldn't arise. For instance, if I have a selection with matching ants, the menu would have