Re: [Gimp-developer] suggestions

[Øyvind Kolås <pippin gimp org>]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com> wrote:
> Also, I would think that nondestructive
> editing would be high on the list (Photoshop's "Smart Objects").
>
> If I am not mistaken, Alex has already mentioned adjustment layers numerous
> times in past as a requirement/missing feature in GIMP.

One of the primary reason some of us have has as motivation for
working on GEGL and its integration in GIMP for more than a decade is
not high bit depth support, but non-destructive editing features like
"adjustment layers" and "smart objects". As has been communicated
repeatedly; GIMP-2.10 and 3.0 are planned to have feature parity with
GIMP-2.8, and let the integration of GEGL as well as GEGL itself
mature with that - before experimenting with more non-destructive
features; non destructive user experiences with GEGL are - and have
been - experimented with outside the GIMP code base.

/pippin