Re: [Gimp-user] Why is 16/32bpp taking so long?

2011-07-21 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:57 PM, artao wrote: > Aha, I misread the GIMP 2.8 announcements. I guess I thought GEGL was > inherently high bit depth. So, several years then is fairly accurate? GEGL itself is inherently high bitdepth, the current integration of GEGL in GIMP however isn't complete an

Re: [Gimp-user] Why is 16/32bpp taking so long?

2011-07-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:57 PM, artao wrote: > Aha, I misread the GIMP 2.8 announcements. I guess I thought > GEGL was inherently high bit depth. So, several years then is > fairly accurate? It's hard to say. To the best of my knowledge, some bits of GIMP are ready to be replaced with GEGL alread

[Gimp-user] Why is 16/32bpp taking so long?

2011-07-21 Thread artao
Aha, I misread the GIMP 2.8 announcements. I guess I thought GEGL was inherently high bit depth. So, several years then is fairly accurate? Oh well. I neglected in my opening post to THANK the devs for their hard work. GIMP is a great app. Keep up the hard work. I'm no programmer, not even remote

Re: [Gimp-user] Why is 16/32bpp taking so long?

2011-07-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:26 PM, David Gowers (kampu) wrote: Just a minor correction... >    Photoshop is still yet to properly support high bit depth (16/32bpc) > images -- instead it provides a small subset of operations. Only if the last version you tried was CS2 :) They actually adjusted lot

Re: [Gimp-user] Why is 16/32bpp taking so long?

2011-07-21 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, artao wrote: > I googled, but haven't found anything particularly recent regarding this. You could have started with reading news at gimp.org, especially the one from 2011-01-11 (PLANS FOR 2.8 AND BEYOND). You next stops are: http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadm

Re: [Gimp-user] Why is 16/32bpp taking so long?

2011-07-21 Thread David Gowers (kampu)
Some points: * These are not forums. This is a mailing list. Accessing it through the unofficial gimpusers.com 'forum interface' doesn't change that fact. * The official GIMP site has problems, mainly to do with lacking a maintainer. It tends to be only updated on releases and other major events

[Gimp-user] Why is 16/32bpp taking so long?

2011-07-21 Thread artao
I googled, but haven't found anything particularly recent regarding this. BTW, is there some way to search these forums? I can't find it. anyhow Please don't take this as snarky. I admit I'm a bit frustrated with the SLOOWWW pace of development. Sorry. So, what's up with 16/32bpp support? In this