How to connect layers ?

[Ofnuts]

(03-29-2025, 01:36 AM)henry_albrecht Wrote:

(03-29-2025, 01:04 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Select > None is about the selection mask, not the selection of layers. The layers list behaves like any other list on your system: clicking on any layer will deselect all others. You can also use Ctrl-Shift-A to deselect everything.

Gimp here behaves in the way I described. Or we are talking past each other

Example:

Have some layers.

1. Then select them all (ctrl-a).

2. Then click on one of them and all are deselected (The selected-message
top-right is gone; even no "one item selected").

3. Then try to "chain" the layers for scaling. It doesn't work, as long as
you dont do ctrl-shift-a or via menu.

4. After you did that, you are able, to chain layers.

Because this behaviour is not intuitive or "logical", I had the problem. Now I know this behaviour and I can work with that function :-)

1. Yes.
   
2. No, the one on which you clicked is still selected, as shown by its highlighting This is confirmed by using image.get_selected_layers() in the Python console. The "xx items selected" only appears when you have more than one item selected.
   
3. Works for me, as in any list (file browsers, etc...), I can Control-click to add/remove individual items and shift-click to add the range between existing selected items and the clicked item.
   

So for me the behavior is logical, it works like in any other list... The only non-standard behavior is that when it doesn't display any layer selected (for instance after Ctr-Shift-A, or by  control-clicking the last selected one) there is still a selected layer.