[Gimp-user] View rotation great. now we need grid rotation etc ?

[Patrick Dunford <blackwhitekez gmail com>]

Well I have been trying out 2.9.7 to get the view rotation, which is a 
great feature.

But of course the issue when using view rotation is all the existing 
tools are aligned to the image borders, so rectangle select and the 
regular grid for example will continue to be aligned to the image 
boundaries, so you get no advantage that makes it possible to use 
rectangle select tool or be able to display a grid or a guide if the 
reason to rotate is so you can work on a part of the image that you want 
to align to a window edge or something.

I'm editing GeoJpeg aerial photos and masking in old aerial photos over 
them, so the image cannot be rotated physically to make it line up 
because this will trash the coordinates saved in it, then it doesn't 
line up when loaded into a grid of tiles of various images. I rotated 
the view 33 degrees so I can try to hand align a freehand selection 
rectangle to the top and sides of the window, this still ended up being 
slightly out of alignment, hard work.

Ideally view rotation would not stop at being able to rotate the view, 
but also having the grid and tools like rectangle select able to be 
aligned to the window borders instead of the image borders. Probably 
this is simpler to implement than some arbitrary rotation of these tools 
or features.