On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:57 AM, tmaes wrote:
Hi, here is an enhacement request I posted in the bugzilla, Martin Nordholts told me to send it to the mailinglist, so I hope I post it in the right place:
I often have this problem:
when enabling/disabling layers visibility during my work, to choose in whitch
layer I want to work, when I find the one I want, I directly go to the image
and draw... but sadly, it is in the last active layer that I draw and the result
is not what I wanted.
I think it would be more ergonomic if the "turned on layer" becomes
automatically the active layer. At least, if people could choose this
behaviour(instead of the actual) in the preferences, it would be great, I
think.
I hope my description is understandable.
Regards to all,
Hi Thierry -
While this behavior can make for a productive workflow in you case, it
would otherwise break completely the way the program behaves now - it
would be impossible for one turning on another layer to continue
painting where he was previously. In contrast, activating the newly
visible layer is just a matter of one additional click for who wants
this to happen.
So I think your request is not feasible in the way it stands.
On a connected issue, there is a somewhat hidden feature regarding
activating layers: in the preferences dialog, on the tool options, you
can set the Move tool to automatically select the moved layer (that is
not the default behavior) - and on the "Image Windows" tab of the
preferences, you can set the Space bar to switch temporarily to the
Move tool (instead of the default 'pan') - in that way, you can have a
fast and agile workflow to change the active layer, by pressing space
and clicking on a part of the image on the desired layer.
Regards,
js
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Thierry Maes
