Sven Neumann wrote: > 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. > Hi That is a good argument against making the proposed change and a couple of points were made that I didn't think about. I will not go ahead with my proposed change at this point. - Martin _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
