On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 21:56 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > > From a development point of view, it shouldn't be too difficult to > > implement the actual search in the menus and plug-ins. A main focus of > > the project should be on the user interface. > > I think both are equally important, no one will want to use a great UI > with terrible performance, and no one will want to use a very responsive > but hard to use UI. > > I can well imagine that the amount of work for indexing and matching > menu items and other arbitrary sources in a future-proof way is big > enough task for a GSoC alone. We already have search in plug-ins and even though it is implemented by means of making PDB calls from the plug-in process to the GIMP core it still presents search result almost instantaneous. A search in the GIMP menus and plug-ins that performs well is a matter of days to implement. Wrapping a nice UI around it is a different matter though and it would certainly make a nice GSoC project. It definitely requires some GTK+ knowledge or at least the will to make oneself quite familiar with GTK+. It also involves dealing with parts of the GIMP core, such as UI managers and the PDB. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
