Two years ago today I made my first GEGL plugin for GIMP

[contrast_]

My earliest GEGL plugin was two years ago. The GEGL plugin was made by replacing the gegl:gaussian-blur in high-pass.c with gegl:mean-curvature-blur
making the high pass filter make a high pass of a mean curvature blur. Said plugin was removed from Github for being too simple.


Thread about it was here
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19918&hilit=sharpen+high+pass

Two years later and no one has yet to show up and do this work.

[MareroQ]

Unfortunately, this is the reality.
Most plugin authors experience this.
Example - no one other than the code author and myself has tried using for Python plugins (which are much easier to write than GEGL) like:
- use preview [by: by Claude Lion (aka cli345)],
- live preview [by: Tin Tran],
- bookmarks/tabs [by: J.F. Garcia (aka arakne)] with the notable exception of Skinnyhouse.
We write plugins because: I like it/I feel like it/someone asked/I have a personal need(*).
User opinions/comments are also poor (the exception that proves the rule is Dinaset's cooperation with Issabella).
It doesn't bother me anymore, although sometimes (unsuccessfully) I encourage/provoke people to comment or (better/easier *) publishing the result of the plug-in operation.

*delete as appropriate

[Erisian]

Learning plugin languages is quite a difficult thing for us lay-people and as for commenting, there are so many plugins available now that it is getting difficult to tell the difference between the effects of one and another. If something is outstandingly different I will comment.

[Skinnyhouse]

I agree with MareroQ and his general comments about writing plug-ins and also, sadly, I am left with the feeling that gegl and I are not best friends.
I was hoping that Gimp 3.00 would eventually provide tools for Python access including gegl - but perhaps that will not be the case.

Feel proud of your stunning acheivements.

[contrast_]

Unfortunately, this is the reality.
Most plugin authors experience this.
Example - no one other than the code author and myself has tried using for Python plugins (which are much easier to write than GEGL) like:
- use preview [by: by Claude Lion (aka cli345)],
- live preview [by: Tin Tran],
- bookmarks/tabs [by: J.F. Garcia (aka arakne)] with the notable exception of Skinnyhouse.
We write plugins because: I like it/I feel like it/someone asked/I have a personal need(*).
User opinions/comments are also poor (the exception that proves the rule is Dinaset's cooperation with Issabella).
It doesn't bother me anymore, although sometimes (unsuccessfully) I encourage/provoke people to comment or (better/easier *) publishing the result of the plug-in operation.

*delete as appropriate

I have trouble understanding this comment are you saying no one but a few have made live preview and tabbed python plugins?


I don't understand what you mean by user opinions and comments, are you saying that they don't influence your plugin development or you don't care if others negatively/positively judge your plugins.

[MareroQ]

Regarding the first question about Python with preview and tabs.
I'm just stating that these 3 possibilities were not used (easy to use, without having to learn the obsolete gtk2 and gtk3*).

When it comes to comments/opinions - it's only about their lack (in how many threads are you the only author?).

*this is the opinion of experienced programmers (and I am not one).

[PixLab]

My earliest GEGL plugin was two years ago. The GEGL plugin was made by replacing the gegl:gaussian-blur in high-pass.c with gegl:mean-curvature-blur
making the high pass filter make a high pass of a mean curvature blur. Said plugin was removed from Github for being too simple.


Thread about it was here
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19918&hilit=sharpen+high+pass

Two years later and no one has yet to show up and do this work.

Why not add options on the original high-pass.c and make a push request?
You can add many options as a matter of fact, like different blur type, no?

In all cases, what I see is how far you went with GEGL, your progression is really astonishing, even with the GIMP team

screenshot_20240508-112736.jpg (38.26 KiB) Viewed 402 times

[contrast_]

My earliest GEGL plugin was two years ago. The GEGL plugin was made by replacing the gegl:gaussian-blur in high-pass.c with gegl:mean-curvature-blur
making the high pass filter make a high pass of a mean curvature blur. Said plugin was removed from Github for being too simple.


Thread about it was here
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19918&hilit=sharpen+high+pass

Two years later and no one has yet to show up and do this work.

Why not add options on the original high-pass.c and make a push request?
You can add many options as a matter of fact, like different blur type, no?

In all cases, what I see is how far you went with GEGL, your progression is really astonishing, even with the GIMP team

screenshot_20240508-112736.jpg

lol, I forgot to mention that the plugin has a modern successor here with high pass of many things, not just gaussian blur

https://github.com/LinuxBeaver/Gimp_Sha ... n/releases

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20482

[Jappaloe63]

Thank you for all the beautiful Gegl filters you have made over the past 2 years..