Thanks Sven, very important to know that! How feasible are these options? 1. Randomly pick a value for each parameter. From what you said (that it depends a lot on the parameters) this wont give us the best results but at least we will have a preview. 2. Modify PDB so it can store default parameters and enter their values in the plug-ins (maintained in one place only)? Avgoustinos On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Sven Neumann <sven@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 10:26 +0100, Avgoustinos Kadis wrote: > >> I'm an applicant for GSoC 2010. I got inspired by the "menu search" >> idea and proposed the "user friendly plug-in browser" that would allow >> users to find the plug-in they want by seeing the effect on an example >> image. The whole thing is to browse through images rather than through >> text. The reason is that the names of plug-ins say nothing to many of >> the users (including me) and they hesitate to try them. But by seeing >> the effect of the plug-in they will be more willing to use it. >> >> Could you please give me some feedback on my proposal? I would like to >> know if this idea is feasible. Are there any aspects I didn't think >> of? > > I think the idea is nice, but very hard, if not impossible, to > implement. All plug-ins have a number of parameters and the output > depends a lot on the values chosen for these parameters. That makes it > very hard to automatically create reasonable previews of all filters. > Also the PDB currently does not support default parameters, so there is > no way to automatically select reasonable default values for plug-ins. > The "user friendly plug-in browser" would have to have a hard-coded > data-base of parameters. That would be a pain to maintain. > > IMO it makes much more sense to concentrate on selecting plug-ins based > on a search in their names, descriptions and help texts. > > > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
