Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 2/13/11, LightningIsMyName wrote: I'm starting this thread to list ideas for Google Summer of Code 2011, for the GIMP project. Since in the last year collecting ideas was done partially by the mailing list, let's try it again this year and keep most ideas here. In 2009 and 2010 guiguru

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
I could think of fully hardware accelerated rendering. Most modern hardware provides accelerated rendering and many tools could be speed up significantly. The CPU just doesn't scale well when it comes to current image resolutions and some brush types (smooth, smear, etc.). Also the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
I could think of fully hardware accelerated rendering. Most modern hardware provides accelerated rendering and many tools could be speed up significantly. The CPU just doesn't scale well when it comes to current image resolutions and some brush types (smooth, smear, etc.). Also the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
On 2/13/11, LightningIsMyName wrote: I'm starting this thread to list ideas for Google Summer of Code 2011, for the GIMP project. Since in the last year collecting ideas was done partially by the mailing list, let's try it again this year and keep most ideas here. In 2009 and 2010

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 3/8/11, Bogdan Szczurek wrote: I could think of fully hardware accelerated rendering. Most modern hardware provides accelerated rendering and many tools could be speed up significantly. The CPU just doesn't scale well when it comes to current image resolutions and some brush types

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
I really miss some basic vector functionality in Gimp. In my last works i used Inkscape and Gimp together. Drawing sharp outlines in Inkscape, exporting them to PNG and imported them into Gimp again, to work with brushes and colors. Basically i used Inkscape to create Alpha-Layers for accurate

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
I could think of fully hardware accelerated rendering. Most modern hardware provides accelerated rendering and many tools could be speed up significantly. The CPU just doesn't scale well when it comes to current image resolutions and some brush types (smooth, smear, etc.). Also the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
- vector layers and drawing geometric primitives [1] I'm not convinced of the notion of vector layers. Sure they can be nice addition but I fear they'll end up being quite frustrating. I think so because to make them as ellastic and usable as in vector graphics editors one'd have to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
I really miss some basic vector functionality in Gimp. In my last works i used Inkscape and Gimp together. Drawing sharp outlines in Inkscape, exporting them to PNG and imported them into Gimp again, to work with brushes and colors. Basically i used Inkscape to create Alpha-Layers for

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Bogdan Szczurek thebod...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a dream about visual editing program consisting of different components, each taking care of one of presentation aspects with one underlaying rendering engine (target aware angine—I don't like cairo's “I

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Bogdan Szczurek thebod...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a dream about visual editing program consisting of different components, each taking care of one of presentation aspects with one underlaying rendering engine (target aware angine—I don't like cairo's

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-08 Thread Tobias Oelgarte
Am 08.03.2011 21:07, schrieb Bogdan Szczurek: I really miss some basic vector functionality in Gimp. In my last works i used Inkscape and Gimp together. Drawing sharp outlines in Inkscape, exporting them to PNG and imported them into Gimp again, to work with brushes and colors. Basically i

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-02 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 3/2/11, Alexander Rabtchevich wrote: I can remember there was an intention to rewrite iwarp plug-in as a tool... It's doable on top of the gegl op that powers Cage transform tool. That op only :) has to be tought working outside of the cage. Sounds like a good GSoC project to me. Alexandre

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-02 Thread Bill Skaggs
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, LightningIsMyName lightningismyn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, The nearly finalised project list for GSoC 2011 is available at the wiki: http://gimp-wiki.who.ee/index.php/Hacking:GSoC_2011/Ideas Users who have a comment on the list should raise it now. The

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-02 Thread Bill Skaggs
For some reason my text disappeared when I hit send for the previous message -- sorry! Here is what I wrote: It is very important to make sure that each project in the list has a developer who is prepared to sign up to mentor it. There are two reasons for this. First, because it is a waste of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-01 Thread LightningIsMyName
Hello, The nearly finalised project list for GSoC 2011 is available at the wiki: http://gimp-wiki.who.ee/index.php/Hacking:GSoC_2011/Ideas Users who have a comment on the list should raise it now. The ideas list was divided in to two parts, as discussed on IRC. Developers who wish to make small

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-01 Thread Kevin Cozens
LightningIsMyName wrote: Users who have a comment on the list should raise it now. I did mention one possible GSoC idea was a rewrite of gimp-perl. The binding seems to be a bit of a mess and could stand some clean up. I may squeeze in a bit more time to make sure it at least works with 2.6

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-01 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
Users who have a comment on the list should raise it now. The ideas list was divided in to two parts, as discussed on IRC. Developers who wish to make small corrections should feel free to do so, but please do not move projects between the lists / add/remove projects or do any other major

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-01 Thread Alexander Rabtchevich
I can remember there was an intention to rewrite iwarp plug-in as a tool... Kevin Cozens wrote: LightningIsMyName wrote: Users who have a comment on the list should raise it now. I did mention one possible GSoC idea was a rewrite of gimp-perl. The binding seems to be a bit of a mess and could

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-03-01 Thread Tobias Jakobs
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 22:52, LightningIsMyName lightningismyn...@gmail.com wrote: Users who have a comment on the list should raise it now. Sven had some time ago the idea of a PDB to D-Bus bridge. Wouldn't that a nice GSoC project? Regards, Tobias

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-26 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
And let me throw in another thing. It's been in my head for some time but now I think it's good to show it to the world. Just in the matter of shear curiosity: I'd like to see some conceptual work/code/working example/whatever about automatically configurable grid processing. It may be

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-25 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Bogdan Szczurek thebod...@gmail.com wrote: And let me throw in another thing. It's been in my head for some time but now I think it's good to show it to the world. Just in the matter of shear curiosity: I'd like to see some conceptual work/code/working

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-24 Thread Bogdan Szczurek
Great thing to bring this up! cut Implement the free transform tool For exact specifications, see: http://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Transformation_tool_specification Oh yeah, thumbs up for that! :) cut Replace the GimpSizeEntry widget Right now both the code and the UI is a mess. The

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-15 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 18:55 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: On 02/13/2011 12:04 AM, LightningIsMyName wrote: I'm starting this thread to list ideas for Google Summer of Code 2011, for the GIMP project. Since in the last year collecting ideas was done partially by the mailing list, let's try

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-15 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 08:26 +, Michael Grosberg wrote: Automatic layer Boundary management. In essence just let the program deal with layer boundary - expand it whenever a layer is moved so that you can ALWAYS paint on any area you wish. If there's some memory or files size issue,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-13 Thread Michael Grosberg
LightningIsMyName lightningismyname at gmail.com writes: I'm starting this thread to list ideas for Google Summer of Code 2011, for the GIMP project. Since in the last year collecting ideas was done partially by the mailing list, let's try it again this year and keep most ideas here.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-13 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 01:04 +0200, LightningIsMyName wrote: Integrate vector layers with gegl GEGL already has all the support for rendering vector layers, so it is a case of adding the code to deal with as part of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-13 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On 2/13/11, LightningIsMyName wrote: Slicing tool One of the most requested features by web designers and/or interface designers, is the addition of a slice tool. Currently slicing images inside GIMP can only be done in grids (using guides and the guillotine action) and you can't split just

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-13 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 02/13/2011 12:04 AM, LightningIsMyName wrote: I'm starting this thread to list ideas for Google Summer of Code 2011, for the GIMP project. Since in the last year collecting ideas was done partially by the mailing list, let's try it again this year and keep most ideas here. Thanks for a

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-13 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 15:57 +, Øyvind Kolås wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 01:04 +0200, LightningIsMyName wrote: Integrate vector layers with gegl GEGL already has all the support for rendering vector layers, so it

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-12 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 01:04 +0200, LightningIsMyName wrote: a couple of comments Make menus searchable ... i.e. have a textbox, in te menu for example, and anything typed will be matched against all menu items and their blurbs and maybe something more (like procedures not registered in

Re: [Gimp-developer] Google Summer of Code 2011 - Project Ideas/Suggestions

2011-02-12 Thread Michael Natterer
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 18:31 -0500, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 01:04 +0200, LightningIsMyName wrote: a couple of comments Make menus searchable ... i.e. have a textbox, in te menu for example, and anything typed will be matched against all menu items and their blurbs