Hi Ronounours,
G'MIC: as Graphical Modern Image Conversion
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Yet, I do like as well the old acronym: G'MIC stands for GREYC's Magic Image Converter
Actually, IMHO, there is no real need to change it (no offence here...).
I have always had mixed feeling about changing the name of an open source software.
For instance, I have lost the count about the number of users who have proposed to change the name of Gimp to something more appealing over the past years.
The same applies to Kdenlive and so on and so forth.
In addition, I totally agree that adding yet another filter to the already quite impressive list of the Gimp plugin is a bit pointless: there are already hundreds of them right now...
However, I am 100% aware this is a quite controversial topic because it is extremely difficult to decide which new filter should be included or not...
All in all, G'mic is not so famous and widespread as to "force" the other developers to write some good documentation and tutorial in order to have their personal filters available with Gimp.
Especially, since they do this for free in their spare time
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As regards users, for spreading the use of G'mic filters among them, naturally I totally agree the most important thing would be to have good step-by-step tutorials (e.g. Videos on YouTube).
Unfortunately, it takes QUITE a lot of time to produce them...
Please, do not get me wrong here: as the main maintainer of G'mic you should NOT be asked to do them yourself!
I would surely prefer to having you fixing bugs or improving G'mic...
it is surely much more rewarding for everyone
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Regarding developers, I have no particular suggestion about the best way to spread the use of the G'mic script language among them...
For instance, for me, it would be very difficult to explain to someone else why he "should" use Python over Ruby etc...
When I was young (in the 70's), BASIC was very widespread. Now it is not used any longer.
To sum up, I am always surprised and amazed by G'mic (really!) altough I only use a small amount of the filters created through this script language...
All in all, I am VERY grateful for your contribution to the open source software.
You have made an incredible work all these past years!
In the end, I am always "surprised" all these filters are available for everyone for free
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Best regards and keep rocking!
Silvio Grosso