GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 475829
Layers dialog - anchor button should also merge down
Last modified: 2018-05-24 12:14:37 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).
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.
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.
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