On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 4:13 AM, Miguel Lopez <reptilli...@live.com> wrote: > Hi GIMP developers, > > Complying with the wishes of developers - " An enhancement request should > never be filed without prior discussion on the gimp-developer mailing > list<https://www.gimp.org/mail_lists.html>." > > That being said, I wonder if GIMP would benefit from clone layers found in > Krita. Clone layers enables automated editing by simply copy and pasting. > Like literally, you don't need to copy and paste or change layers manually, > and you can do some quick operations without the need for scripting for some > tasks. Like say, if you can use group as a clone layer, you can literally use > a clone layer of a group into different group with different layers overlay, > and automate your editing.
> In the long run, when GIMP 3.x comes, this may introduce issue such as > massive slowdowns as if you were to clone a group with filter layers on it, > this would severely slow down editing at the benefit of enabling automated > editing which save time in the long run.Also, there does seem to be a issue > of loop to be considered. Clones in the layer stack is the direction I have been pushing GIMP towards since 2007/2008, but GIMP takes a lot of time to catch up. Any acyclic processing graph consisting of only nodes with 1 output pad and 1-2 input pads can be expressed as a node-tree with clones. And conversion can be automatic, this is also how the GEGL XML representation of arbitrary graphs is expressed. /Øyvind K - https://pippin.gimp.org/ _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
