K1TesseraEna wrote:
Hey David!
Thank you for finding time to reply.
Just a few afterthoughts.
1. Yes, GIMP is getting a new engine in 2.10 but a lot of people will still be using 2.8 ( because of GMIC for the most part)
or have both versions just like quite a lot of folks are still using 2.6 because it's more stable and has the tablet support that is not broken.
So I can envision GMIC, even in its current state, to stick around for many many years to come. It will become obsolete
only when YOU will make it obsolete by porting plugin to GEGL.
Not sure about this
Most people will install and use the latest stable version of GIMP, whether plug-ins work or not. I'm sure most people just don't need G'MIC at all in their workflow, and even if they were using some G'MIC filters, they will try to make the same thing with something else.
On its release, if the 2.10 stable version of GIMP is not compatible with old plug-ins, G'MIC will be obsoleted (most previous users will not use it anymore).
K1TesseraEna wrote:
2. I can refer to the GIMP plugin browser as an example: i don't have to remember the exact name of a script or plugin,
I just type in what I need to do with my image, for example, "pixelate" or "sharpen" and all related plugins show up.
That's exactly the structure of 'tags' I was talking about before. That's exactly what would need to do, but that's definitely a big amount of work.