On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Michael Grosberg <grosberg.michael@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > xianghang liu <xianghangliu <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I am very interested GIMP and want to join the Gimp project as C >> developer. I am a first-year PhD >> student in computer vision. I would like to start with fixing some >> bugs and then implement new >> features and my final objective is gsoc 2011. >> Do you have any suggestions? >> >> Xianghang Liu >> > > This is just a suggestion from a user, so I have no idea how difficult or easy > it might be - but if you are interested in adding a very helpful feature to Gimp > please consider working on implementing automatic layer boundary management. > > I'll explain: > currently a layer's boundary is managed by the user. after you create a layer, > if you move it, say 100 pixels to the left, there will be a 100 pixel wide area > on the canvas that you can't paint on. The user then has to set the layer > boundary himself to include all the canvas. > It would be great if this was managed by the software, so that whenever a user > wanted to draw on an area outside the layer boundary, it would be automatically > enlarged to allow him to do that. I've presented GIT master for a large audience today (200+ people) - after the presentation, the "most requested feature" at questions time, was also this one. js -><- _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
