Re: [FYI] Filter layer implementation in gimp-2.8+

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On Mon, 2017-08-07 at 18:30 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been wondering when you'd announce that :)
> 
> As is usual with your fork, it's impressive work. I definitely like
> some of the implementation specifics, although I can see that certain
> things could be improved (I can elaborate on that, if you wish).
> 
> Unfortunately, this cannot be backported to mainstream GIMP 'as is'.
> Off top of my head:
> 
> - It's based on GIMP 2.8 that uses obsolete tech.
> - Your implementation doesn't use the "new" GimpFilterStack class
> (available in git master since 2013) for stacking filters on a layer.
> - XCF version in upstream's git master is already 10 now, while you
> use v4, so that would make mainstream GIMP and your fork (even more?)
> incompatible.
> 
> Personally, I'm not sure what is the best approach here.
> 
> On one hand, this is something users have been requesting for ages,
> and I can already here crowds screaming, how dare I criticize your
> work :)). On the other hand, certain changes would need to happen for
> this to be merged. On yet another hand, I don't know how this will
> play with proposed release order where non-destructive editing is
> scheduled for 3.2.
> 
> More opinions, please?

The biggest problem is that the branch uses a lot of C++
code, which, unfortunately, can't go upstream.

Regards,
Mitch

> Alex
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 5:13 PM, sigetch <sigetch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I recently added filter layer (or adjustment layer in other words)
> > in my
> > gimp-painter 2.8 branch. You can see how it works at following demo
> > movie.
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddzAqrppHnk
> > 
> > If you are interested in filter layer, please visit
> > https://github.com/seagetch/gimp-painter to see details.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > seagetch
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