On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 18:55 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > On 02/13/2011 12:04 AM, LightningIsMyName wrote: > > I'm starting this thread to list ideas for Google Summer of Code 2011, > > for the GIMP project. Since in the last year collecting ideas was done > > partially by the mailing list, let's try it again this year and keep > > most ideas here. > > Thanks for a good start on this Barak > > > I would like to add: > > Port UI code to a non-low level language > > Hacking UI code in C is a resource eater for us, we should use C for > quick and efficient pixel processing but not for creating buttons. It > would be interesting to make changes to the GIMP codebase that would > allow us for example write the Pointer Information Dialog in JavaScript.
We (or actually you) added support for defining plug-in dialog UIs using GtkBuilder some time ago. But there has been no progress on this since then. As far as I can see there is still no support for using GIMP specific widgets from GtkBuilder and no other plug-ins have been ported yet. Perhaps that would be an area that should get some attention from a GSoC developer. Definitely sounds more useful to me than introducing Javascript to GIMP. I somewhat doubt that we would get more developers hacking on the core if we added JS as another entry barrier. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
