Float: remove lock by default

[abcjme]

* when i paste something, the float layer starts off locked by default
* i know how to manually click the un~lock icon to un~lock it
? but, is it possible to have float layers be un~locked by default

[Ofnuts]

Because by construction the alpha of the "Floating selection" layer is the selection mask.... If you unlock the alpha, it is no longer the selection... Why don't you convert it to a plain layer (Ctrl-Shift-N)?

[rich2005]

Quote:* when i paste something, the float layer starts off locked by default
* i know how to manually click the un~lock icon to un~lock it
? but, is it possible to have float layers be un~locked by default

I find that question a little ambiguous. Could you expand / give example.

I can not replicate that. Even if the destination image has all the locks on pixel / position and size / alpha the pasted-in selection is not locked.
Do you perhaps mean anchoring the floating selection ?

[abcjme]

(02-02-2020, 09:43 AM)rich2005 Wrote:

Quote:* when i paste something, the float layer starts off locked by default
* i know how to manually click the un~lock icon to un~lock it
? but, is it possible to have float layers be un~locked by default

I find that question a little ambiguous. Could you expand / give example.

I can not replicate that. Even if the destination image has all the locks on pixel / position and size / alpha the pasted-in selection is not locked.
Do you perhaps mean anchoring the floating selection ?

* this 1 min video demonstrates it:
   https://www.dropbox.com/s/8lymqo0sscl8tb0/8~gimp.mp4
* (btw, i delete my dropbox vids after a week or so)

(02-02-2020, 12:42 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Because by construction the alpha of the "Floating selection" layer is the selection mask.... If you unlock the alpha, it is no longer the selection... Why don't you convert it to a plain layer (Ctrl-Shift-N)?

* thanks, this works
* i also now realize that one can also create a shortcut key to "paste as new layer"
* also, a shortcut key to lock|un~lock can be created
* and so, i now have quick ways of dealing with this issue ?

[Ofnuts]

"Paste as a new layer" is a bit different, because the pasted item goes to the top left corner and not exactly above its source. So the combo Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Shift-N is usually better.

[rich2005]

OP seems content but the workflow from the video looks like it might have come from PS

Cut -> Paste -> Cut (again) gives rise to that warning on the second cut. In PS Cut -> Paste gives rise to a new layer (as far as I can recall)

In Gimp Edit: Cut -> Paste-as -> New-layer-in-place gets an equivalent, and assigning a keyboard shortcut to New-layer-in-place obviously makes sense.

https://i.imgur.com/bWpt8AL.mp4