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GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-and-improved dept.

brendan0powers writes "GIMP developer Øvind Kolås gave a public demonstration of the Generic Graphical Library (GEGL) on Friday at the Piksel 06 festival in Bergen, Norway. GEGL has long been slated to replace the core image processing framework of the GIMP, bringing with it entirely new data models and operations — but development had languished to the point where many critics had written the project off entirely." Linux.com and Slashdot are both part of OSTG.

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  1. Re:It's about time by creepynut · · Score: 4, Funny
    Pitch the GTK base and use QT, which is already efficiently cross-platform on Macs, Linux, and Windows.
    Yes! Let's have the GIMP pitch the GIMP Toolkit for QT. :)
  2. Re:Maybe now the UI by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem is that the GIMP's UI is not consistent with any other UI I've ever come across. Sure, it's probably easy-to-use once you already know it. But why not make it the same as other apps?

    Because all of us who know the GIMP would then have to learn a new UI.

    ;-)

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  3. ØØØØØØØhhhs and by BeeBeard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pardon my American sensibilities, but I like Øvind Kolås based solely on the difficulty of typing and pronouncing his name. Woo woo alien character set!