Re: [Gimp-developer] [FEAT-REQUEST] A way to quickly know layer dimensions in Gimp

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:28 PM, scl <scl gplus gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lately at Stackoverflow.com a user came up with a [feature request]
> and filed a [bug] in Bugzilla:
>
> ' [...]
> I add a feature request to display layer dimensions somewhere in the
> main window or the layers one. May be display only the current layer
> sizes, but would be great to see all layer dimesions at a glance.
> Could be an option in user preferences?'
>
> As feature requests shall be discussed at the mailing list first,
> I bring it up here for discussion.
>
> I verified that the desired information is indeed missing, this is not
> a duplicate in Bugzilla and there were no discussions about this
> topic on the GIMP mailing lists before.
>
> To solve this for single layers I can also imagine to let the user
> include layer width, height or dimensions show in the title or status
> bar und add variables for them to Preferences/Image Windows/Title and
> Status. To have this information for all layers together probably
> a new column needs to be added to the Layers dialog.
>
> As Joao already pointed out at Stackoverflow.com, [automatic layer
> boundary management] is on our roadmap for the far future.
>
> Do we consider such a feature useful?

I have personally nothing against it if someone was to decide to
implement this and propose a patch.

Jehan

> Kind regards,
>
> Sven
>
>
> [feature request]:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18042093/how-to-quickly-know-layer-dimensions-in-gimp
>
> [bug]:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728493
>
> [automatic layer boundary management]:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93639
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