On 05/06/2010 04:24 PM, Thales img wrote: > Hello, > > I have an idea and I'd like to know what you think about it. > > Let's suppose a situation: > > We make a 100 x 100px rectangle selection on a 2000 x 2000px, and we > want to create a new layer to paint the rectangle, so when we ask a for > a new layer a popup is opened asking Name, Width, Height, etc, for the > new layer, for default the Width and Height values are 2000px² (our > document's size), we click "Ok" and we have a new layer. > > My point here it is that we have a 2000px² layer for a 100px² object, > and as I can see - as a user - a 2000px² consumes more performance(I > don't know if it's Memory or CPU) than a 100px². > > So my idea is to have a option when creating a new layer; maybe a > checkbox with something like: > > [__] Follow Selection's Size That is a step in the wrong direction, the right thing to do is to make layer boundaries automatically managed so a user won't be bothered with the New Layer dialog at all. / Martin -- My GIMP Blog: http://www.chromecode.com/ "GIMP 2.8 development still under control" _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
