That's exactly what I was thinking but I didn't know about GEGL! I could work on this for GSoC. Making it possible to import/export meta-ops from XML and improve the existing graph editor so a user can define his own meta-ops :) Please consider this as an alternative proposal, if the "User Friendly Plug-in Browser" doesn't sound feasible (at the moment) or not desirable. Thanks!! Avgoustinos On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Øyvind Kolås <islewind@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Avgoustinos Kadis > <avgoustinos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I got this idea while studying and I wonder if its possible / hard / >> done already and I didn't spot it: >> >> Plugin-Mixer: >> >> A window that allows you to select a few plugins, put them in order >> you want them to be applied, modify their parameters and apply them on >> the current image. The window should allow the user to save the >> "combination" and reuse it for other combinations. > > *snip* > >> Advantages it offers: >> + Users can create and reuse easily their "combinations" of plugins >> that they use often. This increases productivity. >> + When you normally apply few plugins over a picture, there is no easy >> way to modify the parameters of the first plugins you applied (undo >> works from the end). This would allow more control over using plugins. >> + Could potentially generate plugins (generate their code) [not so >> sure about this though..] > > This is related to what in GEGL is known as meta-ops, processing > operations that are implemented in the terms of other GEGL operations. > For instance the dropshadow operation is a combination of the > operations gegl:over, gegl:translate, gegl:opacity, > gegl:gaussian-blur, gegl:src-in and gegl:color. (unsharp mask is > another example of such a composite meta op). At the moment these > operations are written in .C, but it would be possible to define them > as XML or some other serialization format. Editing such operations > could also be done in a visual way using nodes connected with hoses or > other metaphors. > > There is a bug in GEGL about loading such operations from non C files: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465743 > > -- > «The future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed» > -- William Gibson > http://pippin.gimp.org/ http://ffii.org/ > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
