Hi,

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 4:28 PM, scl wrote:

Hi,

lately at Stackoverflow.com a user came up with a [feature request] and filed a [bug] in Bugzilla:

' [...] I add a feature request to display layer dimensions somewhere in the main window or the layers one. May be display only the current layer sizes, but would be great to see all layer dimesions at a glance. Could be an option in user preferences?'

As feature requests shall be discussed at the mailing list first, I bring it up here for discussion.

I verified that the desired information is indeed missing, this is not a duplicate in Bugzilla and there were no discussions about this topic on the GIMP mailing lists before.

To solve this for single layers I can also imagine to let the user include layer width, height or dimensions show in the title or status bar und add variables for them to Preferences/Image Windows/Title and Status. To have this information for all layers together probably a new column needs to be added to the Layers dialog.

As Joao already pointed out at Stackoverflow.com, [automatic layer boundary management] is on our roadmap for the far future.

Do we consider such a feature useful?

I have personally nothing against it if someone was to decide to implement this and propose a patch.

Jehan

Kind regards,

Sven

[feature request]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18042093/how-to-quickly-know-layer-dimensions-in-gimp

[bug]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728493

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On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 17:56 +1200, Jehan Pags wrote:

I add a feature request to display layer dimensions somewhere in the main window or the layers one. May be display only the current layer sizes, but would be great to see all layer dimesions at a glance. Could be an option in user preferences?'

You can right-click on the layer in the layers dialogue and choose Layer Boundary Size, just under the second separator in that menu, although I don't know the difference between layer size and layer boundary size, and it's not terribly convenient.

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I think the only reason this has never been implemented is that it has been in the "long term goal"
the feature of making layers auto-expand as required upon any operations outside its boundaries.

This "unbounded layers" feature has been on the wish list since "forever" I guess - and it would make the display of the current layer size less useful - but even them it would not be at all useless.

I think having status codes for the title and status bar to be one of the most appropriate ways
to display this. Maybe also add layer information to the "Imageinformation" window (a layer tab) could be done as a more visible way to do it, as adding a status code for it would make it still be too
hidden away for most users.

js -> wrote:

On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 17:56 +1200, Jehan Pagès wrote:

I add a feature request to display layer dimensions somewhere in the main window or the layers one. May be display only the current layer sizes, but would be great to see all layer dimesions at a glance. Could be an option in user preferences?'

You can right-click on the layer in the layers dialogue and choose Layer Boundary Size, just under the second separator in that menu, although I don't know the difference between layer size and layer boundary size, and it's not terribly convenient.

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728493 wrote:

I think the only reason this has never been implemented is that it has been in the "long term goal"
the feature of making layers auto-expand as required upon any operations outside its boundaries.

This "unbounded layers" feature has been on the wish list since "forever" I guess - and it would make the display of the current layer size less useful - but even them it would not be at all useless.

I think having status codes for the title and status bar to be one of the most appropriate ways
to display this. Maybe also add layer information to the "Imageinformation" window (a layer tab) could be done as a more visible way to do it, as adding a status code for it would make it still be too
hidden away for most users.

js -> wrote:

On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 17:56 +1200, Jehan Pagès wrote:

I add a feature request to display layer dimensions somewhere in the main window or the layers one. May be display only the current layer sizes, but would be great to see all layer dimesions at a glance. Could be an option in user preferences?'

You can right-click on the layer in the layers dialogue and choose Layer Boundary Size, just under the second separator in that menu, although I don't know the difference between layer size and layer boundary size, and it's not terribly convenient.

-- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml

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