I will say that it would be nice to have a recommended hardware to run GIMP. I know this is Free and Open Source Software and you can pretty much run it one anything as well as we are not Photoshop and are not worried about sails and making sure that the customer is running the best hardware to run GIMP on. But GIMP is getting bigger, more complicated, able to perform harder tasks and therefore does have hardware requirements. I was on a old netbook testing out my theme I was making to make sure it worked OK in Windows, and just changing the theme was a nightmare. I have been on other computers that were a bit nicer trying to do other things and GIMP was running sluggish. I don't think that GIMP has to be a conservative as Photoshop and recommend at least two/three year old hardware. But there is a logical limit to the hardware people can run and still use GIMP relatively smoothly. Maybe there could be a note saying something like: GIMP can run on pretty much all hardware but here are our recommendations. That way people who have never used GIMP understand that they might be able to run it but they might not have the best experience and it's their hardwares fault not GIMP's. I don't know what hardware to recommend but I do think that we should recommend something. On Apr 4, 2016 12:28 PM, "Øyvind Kolås" <pippin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Also, I would think that nondestructive > editing would be high on the list (Photoshop's "Smart Objects"). > > If I am not mistaken, Alex has already mentioned adjustment layers numerous > times in past as a requirement/missing feature in GIMP. One of the primary reason some of us have has as motivation for working on GEGL and its integration in GIMP for more than a decade is not high bit depth support, but non-destructive editing features like "adjustment layers" and "smart objects". As has been communicated repeatedly; GIMP-2.10 and 3.0 are planned to have feature parity with GIMP-2.8, and let the integration of GEGL as well as GEGL itself mature with that - before experimenting with more non-destructive features; non destructive user experiences with GEGL are - and have been - experimented with outside the GIMP code base. /pippin _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
