GIMP's Van Gogh filter - Does something that nobody understands

Written on November 15th, 2010 at 14:02 pm by shredder12

There has been a recent discussion on the gimp-dev mailing list about the removal of Van Gogh filter from the upcoming releases. It later drifted towards what kind of plugins/filters should be removed/kept, criteria etc. Anyway, the whole time I kept thinking what Van Gogh does(or doesn't do good, because its being removed). And when I finally tried it out, I could hardly understand a thing from the configuration options. The answer to all the questions came rushing when I read the tooltip - "Special effects that nobody understands" . It could be a joke or easter-egg from the author, but its good to know that I am not the only one ;).

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lefty.crupps (not verified)
November 16th, 2010 06:57 pm
But it (the Van Gogh effect) does something, right? and I am sure some people find it useful. Gimp should focus on getting the next release out the door and getting single-window mode into people's hands — that is what people have been asking for for a very long time, not for the removal of features, plugins, or filters IMHO, of course.
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shredder12
November 17th, 2010 12:21 am

I guess, its probably becuase they want the startup time to be faster. There are a lot of features in GIMP and someone must be using one or the other, but bundling all of them into a single app increases its loading time a lot. So, probably thats why they are trying to come up with a priority list of most commonly used features and provide other in the form of separate plugins. And yes, I too am keenly waiting for the next major release of GIMP.

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