>The only thing that matters when it comes to deciding what to include >and what not to include in GIMP is our product vision. If something >helps us fulfil our product vision, we will keep it in GIMP 3.0. If it >doesn't, we will remove it. / Martin that for what doesn't fit in the GIMP product vision But why wait to eliminate a plugin that doesn't fit in ANY product vision? this case is crystal clear: nobody use that plugin ,a plugin that quoting his tooltip produce ""Special effects that nobody understands" :-), This plugin replace all the original pixel of your photo with a abstract thingy, a "special effects", hard to define and unpredictable , ...but that always look as crap ( Why carry its code in gimp 2.8 , just delete the "van-gogh-lib.c file from the code (BTW is in gimp/plug-ins/common ) would took less developer time then a further debates The never used van gogh filter is in gimp from 1996 and survived all debates and clean up till now -- photocomix (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer