Thanks Sven, very important to know that!
How feasible are these options?

1. Randomly pick a value for each parameter. From what you said (that
it depends a lot on the parameters) this wont give us the best results
but at least we will have a preview.

2. Modify PDB so it can store default parameters and enter their
values in the plug-ins (maintained in one place only)?

Avgoustinos

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Sven Neumann <s...@gimp.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 10:26 +0100, Avgoustinos Kadis wrote:
>
>> I'm an applicant for GSoC 2010. I got inspired by the "menu search"
>> idea and proposed the "user friendly plug-in browser" that would allow
>> users to find the plug-in they want by seeing the effect on an example
>> image. The whole thing is to browse through images rather than through
>> text. The reason is that the names of plug-ins say nothing to many of
>> the users (including me) and they hesitate to try them. But by seeing
>> the effect of the plug-in they will be more willing to use it.
>>
>> Could you please give me some feedback on my proposal? I would like to
>> know if this idea is feasible. Are there any aspects I didn't think
>> of?
>
> I think the idea is nice, but very hard, if not impossible, to
> implement. All plug-ins have a number of parameters and the output
> depends a lot on the values chosen for these parameters. That makes it
> very hard to automatically create reasonable previews of all filters.
> Also the PDB currently does not support default parameters, so there is
> no way to automatically select reasonable default values for plug-ins.
> The "user friendly plug-in browser" would have to have a hard-coded
> data-base of parameters. That would be a pain to maintain.
>
> IMO it makes much more sense to concentrate on selecting plug-ins based
> on a search in their names, descriptions and help texts.
>
>
> Sven
>
>
>
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