I'm a fan of the idea of making the addition of a layer mask easier, and not a fan of adding more buttons if it can be avoided... So Ctrl+Click sounds like a great comprom On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:17 PM Ben <draekko.softw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had posted a patch to a bug report to add support for a button to be > added to the toolbar for the layer dialog/widget (see > https://imgur.com/wkyxoqM), but it's been suggested i post here for > starters to start a dialog. So here i go :) > > I was wondering what the reticence to having the button there was. > Photoshop has a similar feature to add layer masks which avoids having > to reach for the menu to enable it. > > It was originally suggested i just make a keyboard shortcut but for me > and i would think for a lot of people that would not be exactly > feasible. I already have too many apps that could make use of that and > too few keys on the keyboard i could de-allocate from them as-is :) > > For me and most folks coming from photoshop who may give GIMP a try > would find this slowing us down considerably in our work flow > (especially when working on composites where masking is heavily used). > > Hence why i came up with a patch to add a button to add them from the > interface and opened a bug report for that. > > Having said that, i've spent the week since pondering an alternative > that could solve everyones dilemma, which would be to add the ability to > ctrl-click the selected layer to enable a layer mask (which if that were > added, it would be trivial add the opposite effect to remove the layer > mask by also ctrl-clicking). > > I haven't looked at the code yet (been busy with this whole icon themes > business lol) so not sure how feasible/work it involves but if it will > never get added there isn't much point for me to go on and try to > implement it. > > So here we are, what do you all think? > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-gui-list mailing list > gimp-gui-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-gui-list >
