[Gimp-developer] suggestions

[wanderer <freewanderer rocketmail com>]

Hello!

I'm new here, so first of all I would like to say it's a wonderful job 
that has been done in 2.8. Knowing a little bit of programming, I 
thought I might help with minor improvements to the software.

So, I came up with these little improvements to Gimp that would make it 
better, in my own point of view. I would like to share these suggestions 
to you, to see if they are really relevant. And I ask for your pardon if 
I am writing things that have already been discussed.

Here are the suggestions:

1- When you are using the scale or rotate tool and try to insert a 
guide, it doesn't close the tool.

2- add the option to snap guides at the border and/or center of layers 
bounds.

3 - add the option to autocrop layers to their limits (the same thing 
like when you do 'alpha to selection' then 'layers -> crop to 
selection') whenever you change it.

4 - add a checkbox button in the scale tool for scale from center. Maybe 
add also a keyboard shortcut for it.

For the fourth suggestion I saw an entry in bug list, where a complete 
system of anchor for scale was intended to be made. So this could be an 
temporary fix for something I think it's important. I know that you can 
scale from center using layer->scale layer, but I though "why scale tool 
don't do it?"

Also, as I said before, if you think any of the suggestions are good 
ones I could try to implement them myself. But I am really new here, so 
I think I would have to understand the code and the development proccess 
first. I could make it a plug-in or script, but if I am going to code it 
and it's relevant, I thought I might do it directly to the source code 
of the program. And, of course, it would be a great honor to contribute 
with a software and philosophy that I admire.

Thanks for the attention!

freewanderer