Comment 6 for bug 170132

I have actually been thinking about this lately. If we had a
cutting tool, we could do some pretty cool stuff with it.
The commands bar could have options to make it smarter than
what I've seen elsewhere (and give more flexibility than
what's discussed below)... things such as:

*what to cut (everything under blade, current layer,
selection, or just top-most object)
*toggle snapping
*cut with different "blades" (could be crazy stuff like you
see with scrap booking scissors)
*tolerance (like the pencil tool)

And I'm sure people would think of other options too. I can
get by without the tool, but as others mentioned, it would
cut a couple steps out of the process for me if we had it.