Hi, Lourens Veen <lourens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > With people talking on this list about plugin distribution and management > again recently, I figured it'd be nice to have some document which is worked > out a bit more than the ideas that have been thrown up so far. So I've > started to make such a preliminary design for a plugin distribution system, > however, I'm a bit stuck due to lack of knowledge on Gimp internals. if I'm informed correctly someone is already working on a plug-in manager but I'd like him to speak up here on himself. > So, to be somewhate less vague and more specific: > > What's the difference between a tool and a plugin, on the technical side? > > Is there any difference at all or is it all in the GUI? at least with the current design there is tremendous difference: a tool is just a function in the gimp core while a plug-in is a separate process. A tool can do just everything, a plug-in is limited to the libgimp API. Salut, Sven
