On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:28 PM, William Swartzendruber wrote:

Hello,

I am a computer science student at a university and this semester is my senior project. I would like to add WebP support to The GIMP. I would also like to expose some of the codec's more configurable export settings. I intend to begin against libwebp-0.2 since it has alpha support and lossless encoding.

Awesome initiative, thanks :) Would you like to start with existing code? :)

http://registry.gimp.org/node/25874

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:00 PM, William Swartzendruber wrote:

I am a computer science student at a university and this semester is my senior project. I would like to add WebP support to The GIMP. I would also like to expose some of the codec's more configurable export settings. I intend to begin against libwebp-0.2 since it has alpha support and lossless encoding.

Awesome initiative, thanks :) Would you like to start with existing code? :)

I won't be able to use existing code. The professor is worried that the project won't be hard
enough as it is.

Well, I'm not so sure that from the project's point of view redoing an existing work is much reasonable.

Could we perhaps interest you in something more urgent for the project?

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 10:24 -0700, William Swartzendruber wrote: [...]

I'd really like to work on WebP. What if I were to extend the existing plugin's export dialog with every known configuration option under an "Advanced settings" expander?

That doesn't sound very easy to use... :-)

Rather than using "advanced" as an excuse for not thinking about how to organise the options :-) it's better to do the organising, combined with a lot of online help (both the tool-tips and the documentation).

Having said that, it remains to be seen whether WebP will succeed or not. "26% smaller than png" isn't really a good comparison - e.g. see the pngcrush program. I'd be much more interested in a plugin to let users experiment with png options to get the most compact possible image file.

Best,

Liam

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:24 PM, William Swartzendruber wrote:

Well, I'm not so sure that from the project's point of view redoing an existing work is much reasonable.

Could we perhaps interest you in something more urgent for the project?

I'd really like to work on WebP. What if I were to extend the existing plugin's export dialog with every known configuration option under an "Advanced settings" expander?

The thing is... Old file loaders/savers are to be extinct anyway.

So how about writing GEGL-based WebP loader and saver? And if the professor thinks, this is not sufficient, write foundations for UI to saving options for GELG based code?

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org