On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

Friends,

I see there was a thread on this topic in May 2008. I'm frustrated by the inability to do some basic transformations of images on my Android smart phone, for example: rotating by just a degree or two, instead of a full 90 degrees; inability to change from RGB to grayscale; and inability to change the format of stored images (and probably others that I've not yet thought of).

So, is there any progress on the idea of a GIMP ultra-ultra light for smart phones?

In my not so humble opinion there is little to no point making a lighter version of GIMP for mobile devices. Simply put, desktop and mobile platforms rely on too different types of interaction with users. You can't strip stuff from GIMP and make a cool image editor for mobile. The further you go, the more you understand that you need tools that work differently and UI that is completely different. And that kinda kills the whole idea of "lighter GIMP".

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

So, is there any progress on the idea of a GIMP ultra-ultra light for smart phones?

In my not so humble opinion there is little to no point making a lighter version of GIMP for mobile devices. Simply put, desktop and mobile platforms rely on too different types of interaction with users.

+1. Having messed around with GIMP on my n900, it would be a nightmare to redesign for a touch interface. Then there's having to pull in GTK or replace it, battery issues, etc - a long list of non-fun :)

Now a bare-bones editor based on GEGL/BABL might be interesting.

I'm surprised there's not a basic editor for android already available. I'm still on maemo, so I wouldn't know though ;)

Chris