I don't understand how you can be happy with the text tool. It's easily the worst part of Gimp for me. I can't even find a way to move the text around after entering the text, I always resort to resizing the box from two corners to emulate a move.
I'm probably doing something wrong but this is the status after using Gimp as my only graphics editor for about 15 years.
Yeah the only movable surface is the letter itself. I usually find myself zooming WAY in to be able to click on the letters so I can move, and then still sometimes miss and move the whole layer...
I'm probably doing something wrong but this is the status after using Gimp as my only graphics editor for about 15 years.