On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 12:28 -0600, Anthony Juckel wrote: > > special effects. No thoughts of competing with Gimp, but rather > > implementing some easy to use/implement filters. > > > > One other approach would be to simply reuse the Gimp. You can start > up the Gimp in batch mode, and send it commands via the built-in > scheme interpreter (http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/). If > this interface is a little too clunky, it should be straight-forward > to write up some helper scripts that would perform the necessary > operations. > > The benefit is that the F-Spot project doesn't have to worry about > image manipulation, and can leverage the library of script-fu scripts > written for the Gimp, but the downside is that the user would have to > have the Gimp installed in order to use the functionality.
And I am not sure that f-spot would benefit by having a dependency on gimp. And those people who install gimp, probably know how to use it also. I like the idea otherwise, just not sure we should introduce the dependency for people who don't know gimp. /bengt _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
