GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 139135
Add refocus plug-in to main distribution
Last modified: 2018-05-24 11:01:49 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.
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.
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.
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.
Setting a few target milestones now that 2.2 is coming closer.
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