Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP development suggestion

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif shlomifish org>]

Hi,

On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:31:22 +0300
Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Paul Naudé wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am an everyday user of GIMP (awesome, awesome product - wish I could
> > program to help but you guys rock) and have just one suggestion to add:
> >
> > I still often need to use MS Paint, to quickly add something like a block,
> > line or circle. Unless I am unaware of a plug in for this purpose, it would
> > be great if GIMP could do that too (just these basic things so I can remove
> > Paint from my taskbar altogether ;-)  
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> This feature has been sitting among our low-priority goals in the
> roadmap for quite a few years.

I think that lines can be drawn using the pencil tools and one can do
rectangular or elliptical selections and use "stroke". If something is still
missing then one can set up a bounty for implementing this feature. (I'm
interested!)


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