Re: [Gimp-gui] Food for thought: the clumsiness of the current layer creation proces

2015-12-15 Thread Jehan
Hi, On 2015-12-15 11:26, Ofnuts 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
> 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

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.

Re: [Gimp-gui] Food for thought: the clumsiness of the current layer creation proces

2015-12-15 Thread Ofnuts
On 15/12/15 15:07, Jehan wrote: I am not sure creating shortcut buttons or actions for 3 specific combinations is really a good idea. My personal preference for instance is mostly "image-sized and transparent" (even when I want a background, I usually create my transparent layer first in 1

Re: [Gimp-gui] Food for thought: the clumsiness of the current layer creation proces

2015-12-15 Thread Jehan
Hi, On 2015-12-15 22:03, Ofnuts wrote: On 15/12/15 15:07, Jehan wrote: I am not sure creating shortcut buttons or actions for 3 specific combinations is really a good idea. My personal preference for instance is mostly "image-sized and transparent" (even when I want a background, I usually

Re: [Gimp-gui] Food for thought: the clumsiness of the current layer creation proces

2015-12-15 Thread Ofnuts
On 15/12/15 22:39, Jehan wrote: The more I think about it, the less I think we should make default action for every particular create-a-layer case. Now custom actions are very easy to create in a plugin. If all you need is an action, why don't you simply make yourself a few-line plugin? This