Re: [Gimp-user] why no difference of gaussians on layer masks? gimp 2.7.5

[Gary Aitken <gimp dreamchaser org>]

Hi Seth,

Thanks for the perspective.  I was thinking if my world ever settled 
down (won't happen for a few months at best) I might try to gnaw on that 
a bit.  Thanks again,

Gary

On 1/21/2012 4:05 PM, Seth Burgess wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> edge_dog isn't the most elegant of plug-ins, and behaves more like a
> script than most C plug-ins; it creates temporary layers, and to do so,
> uses gimp_layer_copy.  (see
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/tree/plug-ins/common/edge-dog.c line
> 471).  So it inserts a check that the drawable is a layer before it does
> anything else.
>
> I expect that careful checks and alternate code paths could alleviate
> the issue (copying masks to new layers), or it could be rewritten to do
> its operations in a more self-contained way.  I'm not volunteering here,
> but it doesn't seem like an insurmountable amount of work for someone
> motivated.
>
> HTH,
>
> Seth Burgess