> IMHO, the pencil tool should be left alone for consistancies' sake > and there should be a new tool to deal with the very special case > of drawing single-pixel-wide hard-edged lines. > > This hypothetical gadget could use Bresenham's algorithm or something > like that because it wouldn't *NEED* to deal with pixmaps and need only > hit pixels dead-on. > > > I really like this idea since the > > old functionality of the pencil tool could be easily implemented in > > the paintbrush (all we'd have to do is to add a "Hard edge" option > > like the Eraser has) and having a real line-drawing tool would be a > > major benefit. > > Yes. That would work. If you make a new line tool, which would be awesome by itself, it would also eliminate the repetitive stupid questions on gimp-user and #gimp about "how do i draw a straight line" AARGH!
