Re: [Gimp-developer] now: project ideas, was: unified transform tool

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Srihari Sriraman wrote:
> Here's one thing that I've long wanted:
>
> Relative Layer Positioning
>
> I'm unsure about the name for such a thing, what I had in mind is:
>
> Often, I don't care much about exact positioning of a layer in the canvas.
> I care more about where it lies with respect to another layer.
> I care that one line of text is on the same level as another.
> I would like one ellipse exactly at the same level as another.
> I want to align all the elements of the footer in my poster.
> I want to decide whether this layer I want to move should be horizontally
> aligned or vertically aligned with the adjacent layer.

Are you talking about adding more options to the existing Align/Distribute tool?

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org