what happened to layer folders layer masks?

[Denis G.]

I don't know if the developers planned it or decided to take it out. but in
the earlier dev versions of gimp before the single widow mode XD, when layer
folders was first introduced their was the ability to add a layer mask to that
folder.. .. I know probably that it was unplanned feature because gimp treated
the folders like a layers. but in the recent builds of gimp the ability to add
a layer mask to the folder has been taken out taken out. *heart attack*

however loading the saved gimp file of a drawing that i coloured in gimp
using the layer masks on folder loaded flawlessly and not only that i could
still edit the mask... so it's not like I'm asking for a new feature but
enabling something that's already there just probably no one thought of using
in that way.

I think that it's a must have feature,  and one that I'll dearly miss if it
never comes back in. so i was wandering what people had to say on this.
i might try and get in contact with the devs to see whats going on.

Here's a screenshot with layer folders with layer masks in action.
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1682366/Screenshots/gimp_folderlayermasks.png

I can upload the gimp file if any ones interested.

thanks for your time.

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Brett (via www.gimpusers.com)
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[David Gowers]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Brett <forums@...> wrote:
> I don't know if the developers planned it or decided to take it out. but in
> the earlier dev versions of gimp before the single widow mode XD, when layer
> folders was first introduced their was the ability to add a layer mask to that
> folder.. .. I know probably that it was unplanned feature because gimp treated
> the folders like a layers. but in the recent builds of gimp the ability to add
> a layer mask to the folder has been taken out taken out. *heart attack*
>
That's because it doesn't work correctly yet.

On GIMP commit df9e9e260990f827b40f9be05114897c571749a2,
the log message says:

Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@...>
Date:   Sat Sep 5 15:37:48 2009 +0200

    Disable layer masks on group layers for the time being

    Will enable it again when I fixed it properly, it's clearly a
    non-trivial problem that needs some thinking. Disabled for now because
    it causes crashes.


In short.. using that is risky and probably doesn't work quite the way
it should.
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