I've updated GIMP to 3.20 and it turns out text layers with text styling effects go invisible if you move them into a folder group.
It seems someone had already reported this issue about a week ago, so hopefully it will be addressed with a hotfix relatively soon.
@dronn @GIMP they should probably add a button to the text tool's panel to open text style UI, cause right now you need to go to Filters > Generic > Text styling, which is a bit ridiculous.
It's also a shame you can't have mouse clicks as a part of a hotkey combo. I get that it could sometimes override "standard" behavior, but hate some of that behavior, so that would've been great :)
I will never forgive them killing off shift+click to create a layer mask.
@lastofavari @dronn i forgot to mention, you can e.g. bind to alt-mouse-button-6 or change control-alt-wheel. Or even use a midi keyboard :)
for shift-click, you could look for the issue about it, or make one on the UX issues list, and explain why it was useful to you, and i can't say if it'll come back as a possibility, but if we understand the workflow we can try & accommodate it better.
@GIMP And I've just tried using every single mouse button than I've got including both side buttons in "Edit > Keyboard shortcuts" UI. It didn't react at all. It seems to only accept keyboard inputs when assigning a new combo.
Theoretically, I could use 3rd party software to map side buttons to keyboard keys, but that would be insane.
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