GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 307016
Script-Fu -> Show Image Structure... doesnt work as expected
Last modified: 2005-07-30 00:47:05 UTC
Distribution/Version: Debian/Sid, Linux 2.6.11 Open an image Clic script-Fu Clic Utils Choose éShow Image Structure" You get there a dialog asking you various parameters and when you cli OK, it does some "perspective" transform on the picture.
I think it's doing what it is supposed to do: show you the layers of the image as if they are stacked up in three dimensions, and you are looking at the stack from the side. This is probably not very useful for most people, but normally in using it, you would leave the "create new image" option checked, so that the illustration would tell you things without disrupting your original image.
I agree with Bill, the script is doing what its author expects it to do. Whether this script is useful or not, is a completely different question. I would actually suggest that it is being removed from the GIMP source tree.
Perhaps a tutorial about how to use this script to make a tutorial could be written (in particular by anyone with experience or success in using the script to write tutorials for gimp) and the script removed from the gimp source tree and put instead with the tutorial on www.gimp.org. Using the script, as it is, with the xcf included with gimp is not very instructional or useful. Another option would be to write it so it would behave better with images with many layers or set the defaults so they work more sanely.
My suggestion is to remove it and to make it available at the registry. This script is IMO really not that useful.
Which is more broken, this script or the registry? Your suggestion is good except that you are suggesting that it be moved to something as broken or more broken than the script.
OK, I went ahead and removed it from the GIMP source tree: 2005-07-30 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * plug-ins/script-fu/scripts/Makefile.am * plug-ins/script-fu/scripts/image-structure.scm: removed this script (see bug #307016). If someone wants to put the version shipped with 2.2 into the registry, please do so.