Hi, On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 13:49 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > But what about making layers not be cropped by default and only crop > them if Current layer only is checked in the crop tool options? That's > also a one-line patch and is compatible with our future plans to make > layer sizes automanaged and GIMP generally more non-destructive. This change would be quite problematic. An image with the layers cropped to the image boundaries is in some ways different to an image where the layers extend the image boundaries. It takes up more memory and processing it uses more CPU cycles. Your proposed change makes it difficult to trim an image in order to save memory and processing time for the following image processing steps. Of course it's a nice side-effect that you can tweak the crop rectangle later if you kept all layers at their full size. But as long as GIMP applies all processing to the full layers, even if only a small rectangle of them is shown, this is problematic. The proposed change will also cause problems with file plug-ins. Many save plug-ins that only deal with single layer images don't look at the layer offsets and image size. They will save the full drawable, which is probably not what the user expects after having cropped the image. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
