Jose-Moreno
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3 months ago @DearFox Hi! Thank you for proposal.
While I personally do care about naming when working solo or with an animation team (in case the file moves down the pipeline so other people have to clean-up the roughs or color the final lineart) I definitely agree the modal window that appears when creating any layer is a workflow blocker.
There has been discussions about this in the past and we did come to the conclusion that it should be removed eventually, but so far it's been a problem of lacking time, rather than anything else.
With this ticket it should be easier for us to track this request. Thanks!
Stopping the workflow when creating a new layer by opening the Layer Properties window is a bad decision.
Usually an artist doesn't care what his layer is called, so it would be better to skip the display of this window when creating a new layer. To rename an already created layer, it would be more convenient to double-click on its name in order to call up in place of its name an input field containing the current name of the layer with all the characters highlighted. The same thing can be called by pressing F2 (the standard key for renaming in many programs).
To bring up the current "Layer Properties" window, double-click on the layer icon, or use RMB to bring up a context menu with options like: "Rename" and "Properties"