On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, GSR - FR wrote: > Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:10:30 +0200 > From: GSR - FR <famrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, gimp-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [Gimp-user] Re: Blur plug-in > > sven@xxxxxxxx (2004-06-07 at 1149.52 +0200): > > The plan is to remove the randomize and repeat functionality. That > > would allow us to also remove the (quite confusing) dialog. > > Filters->Blur->Blur would then be a simple blur with a 3x3 convolution > > kernel. It would be fast and easy to use but of course we it would be > > less powerful. So the question is, is anyone actually using this > > functionality? Are there scripts out there that rely on > > plug-in-blur-randomize to be available? > > Why not just ditch it completly then? If it just a 3x3 convolution > that you have to manually repeat, and there are already other filters > and scripts that do the same. The point of repeat is not having to > rerun manually to get a "bigger radius" blur. If there was a more convenient way to save a 3x3 convolution matrix than having to write a script-fu script around the convulotion matrix plugin then there would not be any reason to keep the blur plugin but at the moment manually typing in a convulation matrix gets really annoying really fast. - Alan
