[Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
GIMP 2.6.6 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Linux. Is this a bug? Should I post this on the developer list instead? Am I doing this incorrectly? At a minimum, I think there is some GUI confusion... at least it is not logical to my way of thinking. This is a little complicated, so please read

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Michael J. Hammel
On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:26 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Procedure: - Select all in old image - Copy - Paste into the new image. This now results in a Background and a Floating Selection. It says Floating Selection it does *NOT* say ... Layer A Floating Selection is a selection that has been

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 01:03 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 12:26 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Procedure: - Select all in old image - Copy - Paste into the new image. This now results in a Background and a Floating Selection. It says Floating Selection it does *NOT* say ... Layer

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Jay Smith
On 12/18/2009 01:41 PM, Michael J. Hammel wrote: On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 13:15 -0500, Jay Smith wrote: Thank you very much for the procedure suggestion. Really Cool!! I will experiment with that. How would I have known that? Maybe I should RTFM? But. Maybe the manual mentions this.

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 18.12.2009 21:00, Jay Smith wrote: a) *You* originally made the point out that a Floating Selection is a Floating Selection and is *not* really a Layer. The plan is to get rid of floating selections altogether. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561576, for example. Michael

Re: [Gimp-user] Image - Flatten Image not available on newly created image with pasted in layer (floating selection)

2009-12-18 Thread David Gowers
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Jay Smith j...@jaysmith.com wrote: GIMP 2.6.6 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Linux. Is this a bug? Should I post this on the developer list instead? Am I doing this incorrectly? At a minimum, I think there is some GUI confusion... at least it is not logical