> There are too many things to tell when creating a new layer and and an > important one is missing.... > > In my experience with Gimp, I haven't got that many use cases: > > - Fill: layer is either transparent, or filled with the background color > - Size: layer is image sized, or the same size as the current layer > - Position (missing in current dialog): layer is at 0,0 (image sized) or > overlaps current layer > > IMHO: asking for a size in the layer dialog is pointless, because > usually you cannot tell the size in pixels in advance (and when you can > you also have a position in mind...). In real life you create an > image-sized layer and crop it later using its contents as a reference. > > If we can skip the dialog then we have shortcuts for instant layer > creation, especially for the three most used: > > * image-sized filled with background color > * image-sized and transparent > * copy of the active layer, transparent > > You can always fill/crop/name the layer afterwards so no functionality > is lost. > > A penny for your thoughts > > Possibly related to the topic on the following link:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-March/msg00075.html
