Filters, Toys, Gee-Zoom and Gee-Slime should not be included with the GIMP 
(I am suggestion that they be removed before version 2.2).  

They are intersting but they are not useful, there is no way to take the effect
they produce and apply it to the current image.  It is a bit of tease to be
shown the effect but not be able to actually use it.  The reason I thought of it
in the first place as all was the planned menu reorganisation, Toys is yet
another menu for just two items.  
They could be made useful instead but I am not volunteering either so the most
straightforward thing to do would be to remove them.  

I asked Adam D. Moss what he thought about making these plugins more useful.  
here are two of the relevant mails:


Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:16:26 +0100
From: Adam D. Moss <adam@gimp.org>
Reply-To: aspirin@ntlworld.com
To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: Gimp Toys

Alan Horkan wrote:
> Before filing a bug report or anything I thought I'd ask if you have any
> plans to work on Gee-Zoom or Gee-Slime?
> 
> They are interesting all right (I particularly like the Gee-Zoom
> Kaledescope effect)  but because they do not provide any way to copy/apply
> the effect back onto the original image they have not gone beyond being
> toys and I think they should be more than just toys.  So what I'm asking
> is, could you please add some way to get output from the Toys to the image
> and make them into useful tools instead of interesting demo's?
> 
> - Alan H.
> 

Hi.

I'm not personally interested in doing this.  It would be fairly
easy as long as the 256x256 pixel constraint is kept, but I don't
think anyone wants the 256x256 constraint if they want to use the
output for something real -- but they're totally optimized (geezoom
particularly) for exactly 256x256 pixels.  So they'd probably need
their pixel-processing cores pretty much rewritten to deal with
arbitrary sizes for general use.  So they're just toys (more
precisely, they've both historically been hidden as easter eggs,
only being moved to 'Toys' after being made redundant by new
easter eggs -- hence not having had effort put into making them
do something really useful).

If someone wants to cannibalise them for a more flexible, less-
optimized plugin then they're of course welcome.

If you want to file a bug then you can paste the above in to
save me repeating myself...

--Adam


[and a followup mail, in response to my suggestion that they be removed]

Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:27:25 +0100
From: Adam D. Moss <adam@gimp.org>
Reply-To: aspirin@ntlworld.com
To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: Gimp Toys


> Any objection to them being removed?

Nope.