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Bug 757330 - Dragging over the visibility (eye) or linked (chain) area in the layers dialog could allow to switch these in bulk
Dragging over the visibility (eye) or linked (chain) area in the layers dialo...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
2.8.14
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks: 763744
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-29 22:07 UTC by Jo
Modified: 2018-05-24 15:51 UTC
See Also:
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Description Jo 2015-10-29 22:07:17 UTC 
sometimes it bothers to click on the visibility icon just to hide -a few- layers.

to show/hide only some layers with a click, it would be useful to keep the left mouse button pressed and move the cursor over the eye of the layers to show/hide
Comment 1 josephbupe 2015-11-02 10:44:19 UTC 
 Hi Jo.

You probably mean "multi layer selection". 

There is already a discussion about this feature here: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-gui-list/2015-October/msg00003.html
Comment 2 Michael Schumacher 2015-11-02 11:53:03 UTC 
No, this is about switching/toggling the layer visibility by dragging over the eye icons' area in the layers dialog.

Right now, this drags the layer corresponding to the row you first click on  - and toggles its visibility visibility. The latter means that something the user might not want is already happening, so the cost of changing it and introducing a different behavior is probably not that high (the lock icon behaves the same way).
Comment 3 Jo 2015-11-03 11:50:51 UTC 
>No, this is about switching/toggling the layer visibility by dragging over the eye icons' area in the layers dialog.

exactly. Agree, its not top priority, however would be nice. Currently layers have a row-layout only, so why not introducing columns in that layout too ? maybe an idea.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 15:51:40 UTC 
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