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Bug 728493 - A way to quickly know layer dimensions in Gimp
A way to quickly know layer dimensions in Gimp
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
unspecified
Other All
: Low enhancement
: 2.10
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-04-18 11:46 UTC by minterior
Modified: 2014-04-22 15:56 UTC
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Description minterior 2014-04-18 11:46:05 UTC 
As asked here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18042093/how-to-quickly-know-layer-dimensions-in-gimp

I add a feature request to display layer dimensions somewhere in the main window or the layers one. May be display only the current layer sizes, but would be great to see all layer dimesions at a glance.
Could be an option in user preferences?

Thank you!
Comment 1 Max Mustermann 2014-04-19 04:35:33 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this. 
In GIMP we discuss feature requests first on the mailing list before a bug is filed. I'm sorry for the wrong information at Stackoverflow.com and already brought it up for discussion on our mailing list: 
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2014-April/msg00108.html
Feel free to subscribe to that list to continue the discussion there.

For this reason I temporarily close this bug as INVALID and will reopen it if the request gets accepted by the developers.
Comment 2 Joao S. O. Bueno 2014-04-21 03:36:45 UTC 
Thanks Sven for researching the subject at length and bringing the discussion
to the development mailing list.

Since it was found to actually be a lacking feature, and easy enough
to implement, I've managed to create new Title and Status bar
codes for displaying the Layers dimensions.

The new codes are %x, %y for active drawable dimensions in pixels, and
%X and %Y for active drawable dimensions in "real world units".
Comment 3 Michael Natterer 2014-04-21 13:38:48 UTC 
Nice, but in the future please paste the bug title (including the bug #)
into the summary line of the git commit message, and then paste the
entire git commit message into bugzilla.
Comment 4 minterior 2014-04-21 19:57:34 UTC 
You are amazing guys, thank you for your quick responses and the implementation!

And sorry for opening here the feature request (although I follow the discussion "About closing feature requests as invalid" and fortunatelly I am a —PHP— developer too :P)

Thank you!
Comment 5 Max Mustermann 2014-04-22 15:56:17 UTC 
I've tested it and it looks fine. 
Thank you, Joao ;-)

Minterior, I'm always interested how other open source projects organize themselves. If you like, you can tell me, how the PHP devs handle this (I'm scl on the GIMP developer list). Thank you in advance ;-)