Re: [Gimp-developer] Cutting the bloat out of .GDYN files

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 10:55 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:51:26 -0400
> Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net> wrote:
>
> > > Ideas....
> > > - Does GIMP really need to output pressure curves for an input that
> > > is not actually mapped to something?
> > > - Does GIMP really need to output a full lookup table if the
> > > specified curve type is "smooth" (the apparent default) and GIMP
> > > can just re-generate the lookup table when loading the file?
> > > - Why does the definition of a default linear curve -- i.e.
> > > (0,0)-(1,1) -- need to specify more than two points?
> > > - And since it is a default linear curve, does it even need to be
> > > specified at all?
>
> > I think the right answer here is that patches are welcome.
>
> It's never the right answer. Especially when a question is asked, not
> just a rant posted.

It is exactly the answer, because the answer to obviously stupid
things a program does is most of the time "it is like it is because
nobody did anything about it".

--mitch