Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-15 Thread Rob Antonishen
The biggest first step would be to define the package xml syntax. After that, resource types could be added. I agree that only scripts, binaries, and python plugins would make sense to package this way. Anything needing compiling would be out of scope. -Rob A On 5/14/10, Alexia Death

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 05/15/2010 07:16 PM, Rob Antonishen wrote: The biggest first step would be to define the package xml syntax. After that, resource types could be added. I agree that only scripts, binaries, and python plugins would make sense to package this way. Anything needing compiling would be out of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-15 Thread peter sikking
Rob Antonishen wrote: I was reading the gimp vision again, and two things jumped out: - GIMP is easily user-extendable, by easy installation of plug-ins - GIMP should be easily extensible by the average user: one click-installation of plug-ins and was wondering if this could be implemented

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 20:35 +0200, peter sikking wrote: one click _really_ means one click. Click here to install a virus? -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-15 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 05/15/2010 10:05 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 20:35 +0200, peter sikking wrote: one click _really_ means one click. Click here to install a virus? So we should have an Are you sure you want to install this plug-in?-popup or what? :) I don't think viruses will be a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 23:20 +0200, Martin Nordholts wrote: On 05/15/2010 10:05 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: [...] Click here to install a virus? [...] I don't think viruses will be a problem in practice if we host a user-moderated plug-in registry on www.gimp.org for example. We could also

[Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-14 Thread Rob Antonishen
I was reading the gimp vision again, and two things jumped out: - GIMP is easily user-extendable, by easy installation of plug-ins - GIMP should be easily extensible by the average user: one click-installation of plug-ins and was wondering if this could be implemented within the current codebase

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-14 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 05/14/2010 04:13 PM, Rob Antonishen wrote: I was reading the gimp vision again, and two things jumped out: - GIMP is easily user-extendable, by easy installation of plug-ins - GIMP should be easily extensible by the average user: one click-installation of plug-ins and was wondering if

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-14 Thread Akkana Peck
Martin Nordholts writes: On 05/14/2010 04:13 PM, Rob Antonishen wrote: - GIMP should be easily extensible by the average user: one click-installation of plug-ins [...] I agree installation of plug-ins is a pain, but I'm not aware of anyone planning to work on improving the situation.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-14 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Friday, May 14, 2010, 23:00:46, Akkana Peck wrote: Writing a file handler like Rob describes sounds easy -- if all you care about is script-fu. The hard part would getting Python and C plug-ins installed for users (especially Windows users) who don't have Python, PyGTK or a C compiler.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-14 Thread Michael Schumacher
On 14.05.2010 23:00, Akkana Peck wrote: Writing a file handler like Rob describes sounds easy -- if all you care about is script-fu. The hard part would getting Python and C plug-ins installed for users (especially Windows users) who don't have Python, PyGTK or a C compiler. Getting Python

Re: [Gimp-developer] Addressing one of the gimp vision items...easy installation of plug-ins

2010-05-14 Thread Alexia Death
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Akkana Peck akk...@shallowsky.com wrote: Martin Nordholts writes: On 05/14/2010 04:13 PM, Rob Antonishen wrote: - GIMP should be easily extensible by the average user: one click-installation of plug-ins [...] I agree installation of plug-ins is a pain,