Maybe there aren't that many people using Gimp who find the implementation of layer groups confusing and non-intuitive.
I work with projects of around 100 layers and being able to do normal things that we can do when managing files in a file manager window or lots of other applications with a list of things, to find Gimp has its own idiosyncratic limited implementation of a list of layers is very frustrating. Some examples - if I have selected a layer group then I should be able to drag that whole group of layers in the canvas to a new location. After all I can drag that layer group to a new location in the layer list. But hello! I can't drag the group of layers together in the canvas unless I go through every layer in the group and turn on the link to join them all together. And then turning off the link on other layers - I can't just select all the layers in the group and apply the link to all of them at once because the layer list can only ever have one item selected at a time. Same applies to the other types of operations like the different types of locks. The other problem is creating a layer group uses up unnecessary additional resources beyond what is needed to simply group layers together in the layer list or on the canvas. This can add unwanted gigabytes to a large project file on disk and slow down a lot of operations significantly. Please consider that now that projects can be greater than 4 GB in size, there are people out there working with 30 GB projects with large numbers of layers who really need better ways of managing them. -- BWK (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
