Please display the image dimensions in the UI at all times!

[Stokestack]

This information is important in many, many cases. If you're preparing an image for posting somewhere, or another space- or data-constrained application, you need to know if you need to resize it. Or maybe you're working on icons that are required to have certain dimensions.

Photoshop displays the image dimensions in the status bar at the bottom of the window. The lack of any such display in Photo is mystifying. Please address this.

[Pšenda]

The dimensions of the image are displayed when using the View Tool (H), which I think is sufficient - I don't need to see this static and still same information all the time. In my opinion, the status bar is used to display changing information depending on the context. That is, as Affinity uses it to display help (functional key descriptions) for the tool you are currently using.

[fde101]

5 hours ago, Pšenda said:

which I think is sufficient

I agree, but some people might like to see an option to add it to the Navigator panel for example, it could be an option to toggle much like the "Advanced" section is now.

[Pšenda]

21 minutes ago, fde101 said:

add it to the Navigator panel

It could also be part of the Info panel. The color space is already listed there, so why not the dimension of the document.

[fde101]

22 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

the Info panel

Fair enough - I never use that panel and always have it closed so I didn't think of it right away but logically that one works too.

[Stokestack]

The point is to avoid having to go somewhere and use a tool or open a panel to see this important information. Thus, neither of those suggestions addresses the problem.

This is basic information about the open document. Even GIMP manages to display it all the time. Photo doesn't even show it in the "navigator" pane. Why?

[fde101]

On 5/18/2020 at 5:11 PM, Stokestack said:

Why?

Consider this from the other direction: why should the space be wasted on what is largely static information which most of us don't really care to see 99.99% of the time instead of being used to display more tools that we can then conveniently access to get our work done?

[Stokestack]

That's the great thing about having options, isn't it? Don't want to see it? Don't opt to have it shown. That's how Adobe handles this very thing.

Also there's plenty of room at the right end of the status-bar area, if not in the navigator pane, where this could optionally be displayed.