Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

2015-12-15 Thread Joseph Bupe
> There are too many things to tell when creating a new layer and and an > important one is missing > > In my experience with Gimp, I haven't got that many use cases: > > - Fill: layer is either transparent, or filled with the background color > - Size: layer is image sized, or the same size as

Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

2015-12-15 Thread Jehan
Hi, On 2015-12-15 13:51, Joseph Bupe wrote: There are too many things to tell when creating a new layer and and an important one is missing In my experience with Gimp, I haven't got that many use cases: - Fill: layer is either transparent, or filled with the background color - Size: layer

Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

2015-12-15 Thread Joseph Bupe
On 15 December 2015 at 16:52, Jehan wrote: > > There were propositions of inverting the click and shift-click (click > would create directly a layer of your last type and shift-click open the > dialog), > This would be more logical.

Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

2015-12-15 Thread Jehan
Hi, On 2015-12-15 16:02, Joseph Bupe wrote: On 15 December 2015 at 16:52, Jehan wrote: There were propositions of inverting the click and shift-click (click would create directly a layer of your last type and shift-click open the dialog), This would be more logical. Have you read my email

Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

2015-12-16 Thread Liam R. E. Quin
On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 15:52 +0100, Jehan wrote: > [...] > We ended up in just a few emails showing how diverse the user base > and habits are, and that all 4 fill types are used. [...] > Because of this problem, we can't just decide to create actions orĀ  > buttons for specific combinations becaus

Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

2015-12-16 Thread Andrew Pullins
Why not keep the default as it is today. When you click the new layer button it opens the new layer dialog, When you shift-click new layer it makes a new layer with the previously selected options. But we make one little change to the dialog. At the very bottom of the screen make a check box that

Re: [Gimp-gui] gimp-gui-list Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

2015-12-17 Thread Jehan
Hi, On 2015-12-16 22:21, Andrew Pullins wrote: Why not keep the default as it is today. When you click the new layer button it opens the new layer dialog, When you shift-click new layer it makes a new layer with the previously selected options. But we make one little change to the dialog. At t