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Bug 475829 - Layers dialog - anchor button should also merge down
Layers dialog - anchor button should also merge down
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
2.2.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-11 12:43 UTC by Nick Smith
Modified: 2018-05-24 12:14 UTC
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Attachments
Implementation of Anchor/Merge button (1.55 KB, patch)
2007-09-14 15:40 UTC, saulgoode 		rejected Details | Review

Description Nick Smith 2007-09-11 12:43:09 UTC 
On the bottom of the layers dialog box are 6 buttons such as duplicate, delete, and, in focus, anchor.  Anchor is rarely used as far as I know since you can just click out in the open to anchor a layer.  I'm suggesting that this button functions as both anchor and merge down.  If there's a floated or pasted layer, it functions like anchor, but if not, then it merges the active layer into the next visible layer below it (skipping invisible ones).
Comment 1 saulgoode 2007-09-14 15:40:30 UTC 
Created attachment 95599 [details] [review]
Implementation of Anchor/Merge button

I am not completely sold on the merit of this suggestion; nonetheless, I thought I would submit a patch in case it should be decided to implement it. 

The patch is against 2.4RC2 SVN.
Comment 2 Sven Neumann 2007-09-14 16:38:22 UTC 
This patch is IMO the wrong approach. If we wanted to implement this, we would have to add a "Merge Down" button to the Layers dialog with the appropriate icon and tooltip and bound to the "layers-merge-down" action. This button would be shown instead of the Anchor button. Only when a floating selection is active, we would hide it and show the Anchor button instead. This should work since the two buttons are mutually exclusive.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 12:14:37 UTC 
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