Re: [Gimp-developer] Adding WebP Support to GIMP

[William Swartzendruber <wswartzendruber gmail com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
<alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:
> 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?

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?

> Alexandre Prokoudine
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