>> [...] I just copy/paste and >> scale as needed but I cannot work on anything else until I anchor it. > >Actually you can also click New layer in the layers dalogue to turn the >floating selection into a layer, and then you can work on other things. > >> Very frustrating when I want to adjust something underneath to match it >> while it is still a separate layer (and I would like to keep it a >> separate layer, too). > >You can indeed.
I used to have to go and click the New Layer button every time until I discovered this handy shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+N It makes your floating selection a new layer without having to move away from the target area! (On a similar[?] note, Ctrl+Shift+D is useful for duplicating a layer so you can have an unedited copy and then do something crazy to the other copy.) On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:08 AM, maderios <mader...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/10/2013 06:54 PM, John Meyer wrote: > >> > >> On 8/10/2013 10:50 AM, maderios wrote: > >>> > >>> On 08/09/2013 03:07 PM, s.kortenweg wrote: > >>>> > >>>> When i started 50 years ago in the early days of IT as prof was me > told > >>>> that there are 2 rules for program developers : first keep it simple > >>>> and second the user must be happy with the results of your work. > >>>> In the endless discussion of export vs. Save i believe that the second > >>>> rule is violated. > >>> > >>> Hi > >>> The Gimp developers approach is unfortunately very "closed". They do > >>> not care about the users and they believe they have the truth.... But > >>> a developer is mainly a developer, not a professional image editing. > >>> You can compare with other software development, like new > >>> Enlightenment (E17 and E18). > >>> It's completely different. The developers and the main developer > >>> (Rasterman) listen to users reviews and they use these criticisms to > >>> improve the program. > >>> http://www.enlightenment.org/ > >>> > >>> > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=enlightenment-users > >>> > >>> Greetings > >> > >> > >> > >> if they're so good, go and use them, then. Or take a few classes on > >> programming and fork the code, as I suggested earlier. > >> Seriously, nothing's wrong with criticism of a feature you like or don't > >> like as a user as long as: > >> > >> 1. You explain that as a user > >> 2. You realize that you may be in the minority there. > > > > Hi > > I use Enlightenment everyday, I try to help developers if I can, > > modestly.... > > Minority ? Thousands of posts on this list about the problem save export > > Gimp-2.8, it does not matter of course .... The developers seem to live > in a > > sealed box, ignoring the image editing reality, ignoring the fact that > the > > new "save export" breaks the rhythm of work..... > > Regards > > > > -- > > Maderios > > Thousands? In all the time I've followed this list I've seen maybe a > dozen threads. I believe all of them have your replies in there. > Trying to count the number of complainants, I estimate probably one or > two dozen as well. > > Stop imagining your personal opinion to be somehow representative of > the majority, its really quite annoying. Besides, open source > development is not a democracy, so the majority-ness of any opinion is > practically useless. > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
