GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 120959
Add 'Merge Visible Layers' menu entry to the Layers dialog context menu
Last modified: 2003-08-31 18:09:36 UTC
'Bug' found when using GIMP 1.3.18 on winxp. The absence of the 'merge visible' function is a notable loss from the layers dialog popup menu. Multiple uses of the 'merge down' function serve the same purpose if all layers use normal blend modes, but this falls apart if dodge/overlay layers have been used. Another workaround is also to use the 'copy visible' function on the selected layers and then paste back into the image. Both of these solutions are somewhat inefficient though. Could the function be returned to the layers menu? If this is a recent inclusion in cvs, then just ignore my stupidity.
Seems "Merge Visible" got losts somewhere doing the development of 1.3.x. It should definately be re-added.
It's located in the Image menu. I don't think it should be in the Layer context menu since it is a function that affects the image, not a particular layer.
I would respectfully disagree. :-) For me, it makes more sense that if you want to merge, for example layers 1,3 and 6 from an image, that you select the relevant layers in the layers dialog box and then right click at that point and select the merge function. Having it in the image menu tree means switching focus to the image and scrolling through an extra menu. Not a huge problem but it doesn't seem as logical to me as it pertains to layer manipulation not the image as such. It seems i'm not the only one that didn't intuitively think to scan through the image menu given Henrik's statement. Anyhoo, good luck with it all.
I did not disagree with you. I only stated the the function is there. I would appreciate if you could rephrase the summary of this report to make it a request for the addition of a "Merge Visible Layers" entry to the context menu of the layers dialog.
Created attachment 19627 [details] [review] patch with a proposed fix
My patch got the menu label wrong. It needs to be "Merge Visible Layers..." because it opens a dialog. However, the question here is, do we need "Flatten Image" as well and should these two perhaps be separated from the other entries that operate on a particular layer?
Yes to both.
2003-08-31 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/gui/layers-commands.[ch] * app/gui/layers-menu.c: added "Merge Visible Layers..." and "Flatten Image" menu entries as suggested in bug #120959.