On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:12 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
Actually it might make sense to make it a preference. Something like specifying what happens to the other layers when one is selected exclusively.
That's a good idea in and of it's self, make the two things distinct functions and together they make a powerful control.
So one idea is to have a slider bar to change which layer is selected.
And the second idea is to be able to set some how what happens to other layers and the current layer such that it should be possible to make the current layer visible, the next and previous layers semi transparent and all other layers invisible. this would also be very cool for doing tracing and a bunch of other things.
For folks on the Devel list I think that there is some context missing from our earlier off list conversation.
What Martin is interested in doing is making it so that you can "focus" a particular layer. So instead of hiding all other layers you could make it so that all other layers are 10% opaque. I suggested that this could be part of the effort to add the ability to select a layer, or all but this layer, to the layers dialog.
The question became, what is a good interface? Should it be "alt-shift-esc-l-click" or should it be a preference in how you want the control to behave? What makes sense to people?
--Ted