Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP should fork babl and GEGL

2014-11-05 Thread Elle Stone
On 11/05/2014 07:34 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Elle Stone wrote: Another advantage to forking babl and GEGL for GIMP is that GIMP's fork of babl and GEGL could be GPLed, thus freeing the GIMP devs to add FFTW (Fourier transforms, http://www.fftw.org/) and o

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP should fork babl and GEGL

2014-11-05 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Elle Stone wrote: > Drop the incredibly paternalistic attitude that the devs know better than > the GIMP users what GIMP users really need. Out of curiosity: if we had that attitude, what was the point of working with a user experience architect from 2006 to 2013,

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP should fork babl and GEGL

2014-11-05 Thread Elle Stone
My apologies in advance for sounding preachy, but here goes: GIMP developers need to start paying attention to what potential and actual GIMP users really want and need from their RGB image editor. I respectfully suggest the following: Drop the incredibly paternalistic attitude that the devs

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP should fork babl and GEGL

2014-11-05 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Elle Stone wrote: > Another advantage to forking babl and GEGL for GIMP is that GIMP's fork of > babl and GEGL could be GPLed, thus freeing the GIMP devs to add FFTW > (Fourier transforms, http://www.fftw.org/) and other new functionality to > GIMP. FFTW is GPLed.

Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP should fork babl and GEGL

2014-11-04 Thread Jehan Pagès
Hi, On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Elle Stone wrote: [...] Skipping all the main contents, since I don't know enough to be able to tell what is "the right thing to do" or not. Just a comment on the license and forking part. > Another advantage to forking babl and GEGL for GIMP is that GIMP's f

[Gimp-user] GIMP should fork babl and GEGL

2014-11-04 Thread Elle Stone
Below explains why GIMP should fork babl and GEGL for use just with GIMP: Hacker News picked up an article from my website: The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management (http://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/sad-state-of-high-bit-depth-gimp-color-management.html) In the Hacker News