[Gimp-developer] Please restore removed crop tool functionality

[Alexia Death]

On Thursday 25 December 2008 19:04:27 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.

I agree. I still think that making the allow growing option to leave layers 
alone and renaming it "Cut/Grow canvas only" is best best solution. Its 
conceptually clear. You will be only operating on the canvas. 

--Alexia