You can do quite advanced image manipulation with something like ImageMagick.
I actually like prog21.dagum's ideas [0] (no idea who he is), a purely
functional, non destructive editing program
Here would be my idea: A scripting window for commands, a graphics
window which shows the image buffer, and also allows recording of
mouse actions (as to script functions like select)
[0]
http://prog21.dadgum.com/180.html
On 2 December 2013 11:54, patrick295767 patrick295767
<patrick295767_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since a long time I have been using gimp on Windows and Linux.
>
> Gimp on Linux is rather ok, but on Linux, the portable version and the
> 2.8.10 are very slow, which limits drastically the use.
>
> On an usb installation, gimp might be quite slow, unfortunately.
>
> Well, in comparison, dwm is a great achievement. Few/limited number of
> lines of code which give one of the best wm.
>
> It shall be the same for the design of a lightweight, well - coded,
> photo editor application. Gimp has become quite heavy to install and
> particularly slow on some systems.
>
> I still have no idea in which direction it might go, i.e. how it may looking.
> What would be important, but still keeping lite, is to have a support
> for moving several layers (images,...) on the top of each.
>
> In any cases:
> It cannot be worst and heavy weight than GIMP.
>
> You need fortran, .net, perl, ruby, python... for a single application? ;) :)
>
> With C or alternatively C++, we've got all we need.
>
> I wish you a good day/evening.
> Pat'
Received on Mon Dec 02 2013 - 18:00:10 CET