I support this idea but I don't think we should limit ourselves to this feature. All the long term goals the team has could easily be solved with hiring more personal.
I am all for more features specifically for painters :) >Hello, > >Lately several people have asked why we won't do crowdfunding for >GIMP. The general position of GIMP developers towards this proposition >is that the core developers usually have "day jobs", thus won't raise >money this way. >Well I am one of them and I don't have a day job right now, thus I >have decided to give it a try. > >During the Libre Graphics Meeting in Madrid, the painter who was with >me tried the mirror mode during Krita workshop. And I thought it would >be a nice addition to the GIMP. Apparently I am not alone because I >see regularly messages asking for it. > >So I started a test implementation to see how it would go. And it >works well. See the demo: http://youtu.be/osSiETyae5c > >But now if I want it in GIMP, this is where it will really take time, >to make a nice and clean implementation and a well-thought internal >design. So I start a crowdfunding initiative. >Have a look there with all the explanation: >http://girinstud.io/news/2013/09/crowdfunding-proposal-for-symmetrymirror-painting-in-gimp/ > >And if you like it, please fund me and spread the word: >http://funding.openinitiative.com/funding/1578/ >Thanks! > >Jehan -- FallenLegend (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: [email protected] List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
