It drops it in some weird positions. I would expect one of the two ways it is handled: 1) Dropping a layer to the canvas from the Layer Box stands for the idiom "Duplicate a Layer" 2) Pressing, for example, Shift button would drop the center of the layer to the position of the cursor. The second option is disputable, but the first one, I guess, is mandatory.
The same applies when D&D from the Layer Box of another instance of Krita to the Canvas of the current instance.
Git commit e501dbe6edce2b1173abf4ceeefa59a90c287879 by Dmitry Kazakov. Committed on 05/05/2013 at 10:47. Pushed by dkazakov into branch 'master'. Fixed positioning of the image/layer Drag&Dropped to the Krita Canvas Now the Drag&Drop of the image or a layer to the canvas works in the following way: 1) [no modifiers pressed] * Dropping Krita Layer (from Layer Box): Positions to the original offset in the original image. If it doesn't fit into new image, it drops to the center of the new image. *Dropping an *image* (not URL) from Chromium or other application: Drops to the center of the image. 2) [Shift modifier is pressed] Both types of pastes are recentered near the center of the new image. 3) URL's are always dropped as usual to the top-left corner of the image. CCMAIL:kimageshop@kde.org M +30 -11 krita/ui/kis_view2.cpp http://commits.kde.org/calligra/e501dbe6edce2b1173abf4ceeefa59a90c287879
Git commit 8fb27085803e844cbfac7663b2d0e4cb5fc86a80 by Dmitry Kazakov. Committed on 05/05/2013 at 10:47. Pushed by dkazakov into branch 'calligra/2.7'. Fixed positioning of the image/layer Drag&Dropped to the Krita Canvas Now the Drag&Drop of the image or a layer to the canvas works in the following way: 1) [no modifiers pressed] * Dropping Krita Layer (from Layer Box): Positions to the original offset in the original image. If it doesn't fit into new image, it drops to the center of the new image. *Dropping an *image* (not URL) from Chromium or other application: Drops to the center of the image. 2) [Shift modifier is pressed] Both types of pastes are recentered near the center of the new image. 3) URL's are always dropped as usual to the top-left corner of the image. CCMAIL:kimageshop@kde.org M +30 -11 krita/ui/kis_view2.cpp http://commits.kde.org/calligra/8fb27085803e844cbfac7663b2d0e4cb5fc86a80
Git commit 954480d6388c0e364d7992e21c1775e4611b1c63 by Siddharth Sharma, on behalf of Dmitry Kazakov. Committed on 05/05/2013 at 10:47. Pushed by siddharthsharma into branch 'krita-psd-plugin-siddharth'. Fixed positioning of the image/layer Drag&Dropped to the Krita Canvas Now the Drag&Drop of the image or a layer to the canvas works in the following way: 1) [no modifiers pressed] * Dropping Krita Layer (from Layer Box): Positions to the original offset in the original image. If it doesn't fit into new image, it drops to the center of the new image. *Dropping an *image* (not URL) from Chromium or other application: Drops to the center of the image. 2) [Shift modifier is pressed] Both types of pastes are recentered near the center of the new image. 3) URL's are always dropped as usual to the top-left corner of the image. CCMAIL:kimageshop@kde.org M +30 -11 krita/ui/kis_view2.cpp http://commits.kde.org/calligra/954480d6388c0e364d7992e21c1775e4611b1c63