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Bug 139135 - Add refocus plug-in to main distribution
Add refocus plug-in to main distribution
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: Plugins
git master
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: Future
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-04-05 13:29 UTC by Dave Neary
Modified: 2018-05-24 11:01 UTC
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Description Dave Neary 2004-04-05 13:29:52 UTC
The refocus plug-in (http://refocus.sourceforge.net) is a cool plug-in that
inverts camera focus blur using Wiener filtration.

We should consider adding it to the main distribution if the author agrees to
continue to support it.

Cheers,
Dave.
Comment 1 Dave Neary 2004-04-05 13:32:49 UTC
Note: Sven is against this for a couple of reasons 

First, refocus depends on clapack, a maths processing library, which would be a
new dependency if we added this to the core.

Second, he feels that the GIMP should be slimming down, not adding more plug-ins.

An alternate proposition is that we could ship refocus on gimp.org in the same
way as we do with gap, freetype and gimp-help. We could have refocus.gimp.org if
Ernst wanted it.

Cheers,
Dave.
Comment 2 Maurits Rijk 2004-04-05 21:02:18 UTC
I would prefer to have those plug-ins in the core distribution that allow users
to follow 80 - 90 % of the tutorials (for GIMP, Photoshop, PaintShopPro, etc.)
without too many difficulties and put the rest of them in 2 packages: one with
supported (by the author or any volunteer) plug-ins and one with the remaining
plug-ins, as long as they are compatible with GIMP 2.x.

The refocus plug-in would be part of the first (supported) package.

It would also be very nice (and democratic ;) ) if we could have some kind of
voting mechanism on the GIMP homepage so that we could track the popularity of
all available plug-ins. That way we can avoid doing maintenance on plug-ins that
aren't used at all.
Comment 3 Sven Neumann 2004-04-05 21:16:27 UTC
GIMP is already a nitemare for packagers. We would make our lives and the live
of packagers easier if we would go for gimp-refocus. Having it in gnomecvs,
side-by-side with gimp would make sure that it is kept in sync. I agree that
file plug-ins should be part of the core and other simple but useful filter
plug-ins. 

But refocus seems to be the perfect candidate for a standalone package. It would
be bundled with GIMP anyway, so the availability of the plug-in for the users
would be assured. Life for us and GIMP packagers would be easier though.
Comment 4 Maurits Rijk 2004-05-26 13:02:29 UTC
Setting a few target milestones now that 2.2 is coming closer.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 11:01:49 UTC
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