Re: [Gimp-developer] Creating a new Layer

2010-05-06 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
Hi Thales -- thank you for your feedback - we will take that in account while working in the UI - However, this need of yours can be easily implemented through a script - either in Python or Script-fu (if you are on Windows and have issues configuring GIMP- Python) -- this would give yiou this

Re: [Gimp-developer] Creating a new Layer

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 05/06/2010 04:24 PM, Thales img wrote: Hello, I have an idea and I'd like to know what you think about it. Let's suppose a situation: We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask a for a new

Re: [Gimp-developer] Creating a new Layer

2010-05-06 Thread Thales img
@Martin It seams to be much more difficult, don't you think? On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Martin Nordholts ense...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/06/2010 04:24 PM, Thales img wrote: Hello, I have an idea and I'd like to know what you think about it. Let's suppose a situation: We make

Re: [Gimp-developer] Creating a new Layer

2010-05-06 Thread Sven Neumann
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 19:37 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: That is a step in the wrong direction, the right thing to do is to make layer boundaries automatically managed so a user won't be bothered with the New Layer dialog at all. Right. But until that change has been done, it might make

Re: [Gimp-developer] Creating a new Layer

2010-05-06 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 05/06/2010 08:50 PM, Thales img wrote: @Martin It seams to be much more difficult, don't you think? Well, yes, but that can hardly be an argument for doing the wrong thing. It is important to align resources on a project lacking them, and doing what you suggest would be a wasted effort in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Creating a new Layer

2010-05-06 Thread peter sikking
Thales img wrote: We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask a for a new layer a popup is opened asking Name, Width, Height, etc, for the new layer, for default the Width and Height values