GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 166938
Wish to associate styles with text layers and other structured objects
Last modified: 2018-05-24 11:25:20 UTC
It would be handy to be able to tag all text layers with a "style" a la HTML and CSS, so you you can later load an image and change the colour, font etc of all such tagged text in one operation. "Styles" could also be applied to certain aspects of whole layers (e.g. mask or opacity, or just as a layer grouping tool so you can, for example, desaturate or colourise a dozen disparate layers in one operation).
Yes, that would be handy. Sigh.
A potentially useful variation on this theme: if it was made possible to select (a) text layer(s) and then dink with the text-tool values to change the properties of them all, this may be significantly easier than adding styles, and would be a step in the right direction.
You can already select a (single) text layer and change it's style using the text tool.
At the moment GIMP does not have any mechanism for selecting more than one layer at a time, other than visibility. Once the text-layer functionality is exported to the PDB, it should be possible to create a plug-in that would change the style properties of all visible text layers in a specified way, though.
It would be nice if Gimp would allow grouping of layers. It will be much easier to work with them, if there are more then ~20. Also operations like making visible, making invisible, lower, raise would work on a group, so the user can quickly switch to work on other areas of the image. Also it is possible to write a plugin which adds a new type of layer? Eg. like now there is the GFig layer, which seems pretty nice. But is it possible to write a plugin, which adds a completely vector based layer?
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