Sven wrote,
GIMP already has such a dialog among the dockables that the user
can add
to their docks. The easiest and the most consistent way for adding a
magnifier view is to add it as another dockable.
easiest to implement, yes.
It should be pretty
much straight-forward to do that and
I'd really like to participate in Google SoC and specifically with the
GIMP project. I am only a second year CS major though and so am still
in the early stages of my education. I'm interested in the
search-based menu browser idea, but was unsure how to form a
proposal.
The GIMP Soc wiki says