A scale independant, fixed pixel-size background checkerboard for pixel art
Operating System: All
Description of the feature
It would be nice to have a checkerboard background of a fixed pixel size for pixel art, or pixel-perfect related manipulations.
As this is only useful for pixel art, there could be a switch in the background checkerboard preferences.
Use cases
When drawing pixel art, it is very convenient to be able to align / measure pixels by refering to the background checkerboard. Asesprite / Libresprite does that. While a scale independent background checkerboard is very convenient to convey the meaning of a transparent region when editing large scale photographics like graphics, it makes it very difficult to edit pixel art. Moreover Gimp checkerboard does not try to align to pixels.
Current workaround
It is possible to use an extra background layer and draw pixel art on above layers but this leads to extra steps (hide/show the layer) when exporting, which is not convenient.