selection behaviour on paste: user input needed

[C. Boemann]

I personally think the photoshop way is best - ie deselecting automatically

On Monday 01 June 2009 11:07:41 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Krita used to have a per-layer selection instead of a global one, so that
> if you pasted a clip to a new layer, the new layer wouldn't have a
> selection.
>
> Now we have a global selection, so if you select something, cut/copy it 
and
> paste it to a new layer, the selection stays active on the new layer. This
> can be confusing, so we need to have a new behaviour:
>
> * deselect the global selection on paste (this is what photoshop does)
> * create a new global selection on paste that selects the outline of the
> clip (this is what gimp does)
> * keep the current global selection
>
> There are other options, like
>
> * create a local selection from the global selection and set it on the
> original layer, clear the global selection...
>
> Personally, I feel that deselecting automatically would be most useful for
> most users, but I would like input on this question. We might even make 
it
> a setting...