Projects in GSoC 2008

Improving the text-tool in GIMP

Mentor : Daniel Eddeland

Student : William Skaggs

"Although the text-tool in GIMP works right now, it could be even better and more convenient with more functionality. When editing text you type the text in a dialog instead of on the canvas itself. I found "on-canvas text editing" as one of the ideas listed on the GIMP GSoC ideas page, and thought it would be a good idea to implement, as it would make the text tool more ergonomic and also look a little better (less dialogs to keep track off = cleaner interface)."

Enhance Python Scripting Interface Experience

Mentor : João Sebastião de Oliveira Bueno

Student : Lars-Peter Clausen

"The overall goal of this project is to enhance the python scripting interface experience for The GIMP.

As part of this I'll creating binding for gimp objects and widgets that haven't a binding yet but would be useful to have in python scripts. I'll also in collaboration with the community identify other missing or nice to have aspects in the python scripting interface and then try add them."

Tagging of GIMP Resources

Mentor : Aurimas Juska

Student : Sven Neumann

"Currently resources such as brushes, gradients, etc are presented to the user in a single list without a possibility to organize them in any way. This makes it impossible to deal with large number of resources efficiently, thus making the GIMP less attractive for both professional and casual users.

Adding tags to resources is natural and convenient way for users to organize their collection of resources so they could quickly find the ones they want for the specific task and create their own collections easily."

Operations in Frequency Domain

Mentor : Øyvind Kolås

Student : Zhang Junbo

"Many of the image processing operations in the spatial domain are very difficult or even impossible, but in the frequency domain it may be quite simple. But GEGL, the new framework of GIMP, has not support operations in frequency domain yet. Therefore, a collection of operations in frequency domain for GEGL is urgently needed.

A good framework has been provided in GEGL. Operations(plug-ins) in frequency domain could be implemented modularly."