There are too many things to tell when creating a new layer and and an
important one is missing....
In my experience with Gimp, I haven't got that many use cases:
- Fill: layer is either transparent, or filled with the background color
- Size: layer is image sized, or the same size as the current layer
- Position (missing in current dialog): layer is at 0,0 (image sized) or
overlaps current layer
IMHO: asking for a size in the layer dialog is pointless, because
usually you cannot tell the size in pixels in advance (and when you can
you also have a position in mind...). In real life you create an
image-sized layer and crop it later using its contents as a reference.
If we can skip the dialog then we have shortcuts for instant layer
creation, especially for the three most used:
* image-sized filled with background color
* image-sized and transparent
* copy of the active layer, transparent
You can always fill/crop/name the layer afterwards so no functionality
is lost.
A penny for your thoughts