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the bats have left the bell tower

At Linux Graphics Meeting in Lyon, Pippin surprised all of us by showing a working piece of code that uses GEGL. Actually, even the software used for the presentation was using gegl. So after all that time, gegl is finally able to process image data. That should make development a lot more fun.

We also made plans on how to integrate gegl into gimp. But first we need to get 2.4 out of the door…

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9 Responses to “the bats have left the bell tower”

  1. Carsten Says:
    March 29th, 2006 at 7:00 pm

    Please make this a priority! Actually the features I’m missing are gegl related…

    But anyway: this is good news! I already feared, that gegl is completely dead.

  2. Kritoke Says:
    March 29th, 2006 at 10:03 pm

    That appears to be a Bauhaus reference, am I correct?

  3. neo Says:
    March 29th, 2006 at 10:37 pm

    Yes, the quote is (slightly modified) from the song “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus.

  4. tom Says:
    March 30th, 2006 at 9:18 am

    Does this mean that maybe some time in the future gimp will support 16bpc files?

  5. neo Says:
    March 30th, 2006 at 11:15 am

    tom: Yes. As well as 32 bit per channel and floating point.

  6. Dr. Tyrell Says:
    April 5th, 2006 at 4:54 am

    WOOHOO!!!
    Any guesses on the date of “some time in the future”?

    Thanks for all the great work.

  7. Nate Says:
    May 9th, 2006 at 4:41 am

    Damn. I’ve been waiting for GEGL for years now.

    Please please please please get it working. I’d love to help out, but I am no programmer. Just a regular old gimp user.

    With very large/high resolution photos being the norm.. and Linux increasing capabilities in the digital video arena we need a image editor capable of matching these things.. Not like how gimp currently is with it’s performance limitations with large images, filters, and such.

    Otherwise if Gimp is going to stay the way it is now, then somebody else needs to adopt GEGL or maybe Krita and Cinepaint/Glasgow will become the next premier free software image editor. (neither of which is designed to realy replace the gimp, and they have a lot of development to go, unfortunately)

    Don’t get me wrong I like using Gimp, but people have been waiting for this GEGL stuff for way to long now…

  8. neo Says:
    May 9th, 2006 at 10:30 am

    Fortunately there is active development on GEGL lately. But if people are waiting for GEGL, they should get their act together and help out. Not knowing how to program is not an excuse, everyone can learn it.

  9. Nate Says:
    May 10th, 2006 at 5:28 pm

    I don’t expect people with no previous programming experiance will be able to help Gegl out much programming-wise… Like me. I’ve been trying to figure the whole programming stuff out for a couple years now, but I am still struggling with simple python stuff.

    GEGL isn’t something that strikes me as novice-friendly.