Hi Viktor,
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Viktor Kojouharov wrote:
This has been discussed somewhat in the very distant past. The last
A lot, actually:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51937
discussion ended with the verdict that recording user actions (and
playing then back later) would not be possible without rewriting the
Gimp core.
Specifically the PDB (procedural database)-- currently, only some
things (like plugins) that show up in the UI are actually called
through PDB.. Rockwalrus was working on a library 'libpdb' at some
point,
which was supposed to implement important functionality for PDB
(default values; named parameters)
to allow this to happen.
However, he vanished from GIMP development some time ago, as you can see:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/libpdb/
Something like libpdb would help; However the real issue is simply the
size of the job, and how to present the implementation to the user
when it is only partially complete.
So now that things are moving to GEGL, I'd like to resurrect
this feature request.
From what I remember back in photoshop 6, one
could pretty much push a button and record everything that is being done
on an image. Then, when a new image is opened, those actions are played
on it. With GEGL, would it be possible to do something like this (as
easy as just pressing a button, instead of learning a scripting
language)?
GEGL has a little to do with this. It will effect how easy it is to
record changes to the image structure.
... there are more actions than just image-structure modification.
For example creating a new view, adding colors to a palette, or
copying the selected region.
It will have some effect, by itself it could not even come close to
'making it possible' though.
Basically, it's a pretty big job, in which GEGL has relatively minor relevance.
David
