Re: [Gimp-developer] Drop shadow - a question from an user - developer-version 2.9

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion gmail com>]

Although the filter is intended to work that way, I consider it to be a bug.

As you know, GIMP 2.9 is still under heavy development, an done of the
pending things is to find-put a way
to have the "classic" plug-ins installed back again on a running GIMP
- that way, any regressions such as this could
be work-arounded by installing the previous script.

In this particular case, I am in favor of restoring the extra-layer
creation behavior, or at least have a checkbox
to imply it. The uses I myself make of "drop shadow" always require a
separate layer.

 (For developers: I know that breaks the "a single gegl-op" paradigm
for such a plug-in - since it would have to fiddle with the image
layer stack - that means that some plug-ins can't simply become an op
with automated GUI, but have to be actually coded and call GEGL and
gimplib/pdb to manipulate the image)

For now, if you can find the "drop-shadow.scm" file from any gimp2.8
(or less) install and put it in yours scripts dir, it will work.


  js
 -><-


On 8 February 2015 at 10:26, Axel und Doris <ad-emmering t-online de> wrote:
> Hello
>
> OnIRC-Channel they told me, it ist better to ask the developer directly or
> write in the bug-report. So, I hope this is the right place now for my
> question.
>
> I took a first look of the new development version 2.9. on my win7 system.
> Great work!
> My question: The new Filter “Drop Shadow” creates no extra layer. Is this a
> bug or a new feature?
>
> It would be very importend for our work to get the shadow on an extra layer,
> because we need it for extra manipulations.
> It will be nice, if we have the choice to merge down the layers or not.
>
>
> Thanks for your time to get it fixed.
> do-se (this is my nick in the gimp-world)
>
>
>
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