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Bug 158134 - layer mask status indicator
layer mask status indicator
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 132204
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
2.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-11-13 01:40 UTC by Albert Cahalan
Modified: 2005-02-25 18:41 UTC
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Description Albert Cahalan 2004-11-13 01:40:00 UTC 
Currently, layer mask status in the layers dialog box is indicated by a
colored border around the thumbnail image. This is not self-documenting,
which goes against normal GUI design. (I also suspect that there may be
problems for colorblind people.)

Suggested fix:

Add a status bar across the bottom of the dialog box to explain,
in words, what is going on. What am I seeing, what am I editing,
and so on.
Comment 1 Sven Neumann 2004-11-13 02:47:12 UTC 
A statusbar on the layers dialog? That would be a terrible waste of screen
estate. There's also a related report about making the mask more obvious (bug
#132204) and GIMP 2.2 has menu entries for the state of the mask. I think we can
safely close this report as WONTFIX.
Comment 2 Albert Cahalan 2004-11-13 04:27:55 UTC 
I mean like a web browser typically has along the bottom.
This is compact and informative.

If you need to save space, the colored borders could go.
They are hard to see, hard to explain, and hard to remember.
Comment 3 Sven Neumann 2004-11-15 10:26:08 UTC 
IMO this should be closed as duplicate of bug #132204. It deals with the same
problem, only suggests a different solution.
Comment 4 weskaggs 2005-02-25 18:41:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 132204 ***