Re: [Gimp-developer] question about script-fu and GIMP 2.10

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:18 AM, Marco Ciampa via gimp-developer-list wrote:
> I was wondering if, when the GIMP version 2.10 is ready (BTW: forecast of
> the release date?) it will contain the old beloved script-fus with the
> file->button and file->logo menu entries.
[snip]
> Perhaps there were some decisions about it that i missed?

I don't know if there was any public discussion about removing scripts. I 
was just as surprised to one day find that a load of Script-Fu scripts had 
disappeared.

One very useful script that was removed was the Text Circle script. Every so 
often someone in IRC would ask how to add text to an image in a circle and 
the script-fu script was the answer. I don't know if there is some other way 
to do text in a circle using paths. The script made it dead easy.

Some of the scripts that were removed were for effects that weren't likely 
to see much use these days. They were only useful to show how somethings 
could be done in Script-Fu. The removed scripts should be placed in a public 
repository so they would be available for someone who still wanted to use them.

At some point a review should be done as to which scripts are included by 
default and which ones should be re-instated.

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