On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Ãyvind KolÃs <pippin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Ofnuts <ofnuts@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 02/11/2011 01:02 PM, Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: >>>> I apologize, you are right. I apparently only added links to >>>> the new context functions from the new selection API. >>>> >>>> It's the new context API, e.g. gimp_context_set_interpolation(). >>>> Will add the docs after work today. >> >> Hmmm. What proportion of existing plug-ins working in 2.6 will have to >> be rewritten for 2.8? In my neck of the IT woods, within the same >> version backward compatibility is implied... And if a rewrite is >> necessary we will have to support both versions for quite some time >> (some people fall in love with some plug-ins and won't upgrade Gimp >> until there is a new version Âof their beloved plug-in). And do it again >> when 3.0 shows up... > > But the rewriting needed for 3.0, porting to be GEGL ops, can be done > already now, and I would strongly encourage GIMP to make use of GEGL > ops more on an equal footing to GIMP plug-ins (and not be hidden in an > own menu under the GEGL tool like it is now) so that freshly developed > plug-ins can be done as GEGL ops already now and be more future proof. For example, people usually marvel at the GEGL c2g filter - and it is completly hidden under tools->GEGL operations. Maybe it could be somewhat more exposed as an option in Colors->desaturate, or filters->artistic? js -><- > /Ãyvind K. > -- > ÂThe future is already here. It's just not very evenly distributed >                        Â -- William Gibson > http://pippin.gimp.org/Â;          Âhttp://gegl.org/contribute.html > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
