Re: [Gimp-user] Off-canvas editing

[Eduard Braun <Eduard Braun2 gmx de>]

Thanks for the workarounds, I appreciate them very much!

But to summarize, this seems to be an issue not just for me, right? So 
is there a reason GIMP doesn't support off-canvas editing out-of-the-box 
to make such workarounds unnecessary?
I mean, would there be any downsides of allowing editing content outside 
the canvas borders? Are there any design limitations of the underlying 
code that make it hard to impossible to implement such a feature?

If this question is too technical and should go into 
gimp-developer-list gnome org <mailto:gimp-developer-list gnome org> 
please say so! The reason I posted this to gimp-user-list gnome org 
<mailto:gimp-user-list gnome org> was that the homepage said "discussion 
about the source code" regarding the developer list and I felt this was 
not about source code at all yet.

Regards
Eduard