Comments on: Interview with Sven Neumann (GIMP Maintainer)

By: Alexander GrÃƒÂ¼neberg

Alexander GrÃƒÂ¼neberg — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:51:11 +0000

There are packages for GIMP 2.4.2 at getdeb.net

By: Retro

Retro — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:45:09 +0000

GIMP version 2.4.0 is still hard to install on ubuntu 7.04, I have ubuntu 7.10 on my notebook and there it’s a easy way…..
on my desktop I had to compile this myself and to compile some libs before…..
This Interview with Sven Neumann was very good….
I heard it the whole time…. (about 2h)
and I bookmarked Chaosradio after that….
I would translate this into english but my english is so bad that I can’t……

there was many, we say in german “gelabber” in it, but also many facts, problems and features witch will be released in the future……

By: Donncha O Caoimh

Donncha O Caoimh — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:32:59 +0000

I’ll still call it the GIMP. It’s sounds better to a native English speaker, or maybe it’s just an Irish thing ..

By: Rolf

Rolf — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:21:31 +0000

2.4.x - this are the stable versions. And stable in GIMP is STABLE.

I am still using one of the RC versions, because it is in the Ubuntu repositorys. But I’ll install the current version soon. Just to find the time to find out how…..

By: Pavel

Pavel — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:00:23 +0000

Rolf,

Some time ago you’ve suggested me the GIMP version 2.3.18.

But I’ve seen you using the 2.4 already for quite some time.

Would you recommend any of 2.4.x versions for production-like environment or there is still a bug-smashing needed for 2.4?

Regards, Pavel.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:29:31 +0000

You are right, I am forgetting that all the time. Fixed in this post….

By: Jakob

Jakob — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:00:30 +0000

Actually it is GIMP, not Gimp Thank you for a great videocast!

By: Philippe Demartin

Philippe Demartin — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:51:45 +0000

for the geeky here is a interesting video on the concept of GEGL
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-GEGL.ogg

By: Philippe Demartin

Philippe Demartin — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:20:09 +0000

I did’nt ment the organising stuf from lightroom , but the “nondestructive” concept who is the force of it, gona make it’s way in the gimp.
I cote
“Sven said, that you could even swap the base image for an other and still get all the operations done”

It’s simply an small extention to make.
Save the work done with GEGL as “xml” for example , and reuse it for another image, or store those transformation datas in the image format ( I’me shure they will not stop half way and implement a maner to save those datas :))
And LightRoom dose exactly that in this aspect.

By: Rolf

Rolf — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:42:51 +0000

Such stuff will not be in Gimp according to Sven, but the cleaning up of the code for 2.4 and the GEGL structure should allow an easy re-use of the Gimp code.

By: Philippe Demartin

Philippe Demartin — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:29:07 +0000

If you’ve got dome minutes to spend, take a look at the two last videocast from “PixelPerfect with Bert Monroy” on lightroom, realy interesting concept, and it’s look we gona have this kind of power in ther Gimp somtime soon :):) I hope.