I'm sorry that you disagree with the closed nature of the pro forums, but there are no plans to change this at this time.

I would like to see this:

Add an option to allow automatic cropping of images instead of resizing.

Because the gallery looks VERY ragged because of all the different sized thumbnails.
Cropping would make the gallery look nicer. The crop could start from the center of the image. Actually, you could combine the crop and the resizing, so that as much of the image is showing in the cropped thumbnail as possible.

Can't be too hard to add a crop. Pixelpost crops the images, for example.

There´s no need to crop images, you can always chage the built in settings to homogenize thumbs. take a look ...

What built-in settings do you mean?
The images are resized according to their longest side.
So the gallery will look ragged, because it contains both landscape and portrait pictures.