On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 12:27, David Christian Berg wrote:

Also the fontsize of "(root)" in the combobox in the statusbar is decreased when you have a layer selected. Strange, I'd say.

That was deliberate; ancestors and children of the current layer are normally shown in brief outline form at a smaller size.

Here's a concrete example of what happens with nested layers (using capitalization instead of size), where #body is the currently selected layer:

(root) #lineart #HEAD [ #BODY v ] #clothing #items #RIGHT-ARM #LEFT-ARM

(root) and #lineart are ancestors of #body, #clothing and #items are #body's children; #head, #right-arm and #left-arm are #body's siblings.

Note that only ancestors, siblings, and children of the current layer are shown for brevity; in my experience if the ancestors and children aren't shrunk it looks weird when their own ancestors, siblings, or children aren't shown.

I exempted the top-level layer names from being shrunk when the root layer is selected, but maybe that wasn't really so helpful since it makes the effect look less intentional.

Thoughts?

-mental