You can do quite advanced image manipulation with something like ImageMagick.
I actually like prog21.dagum's ideas [0] (no idea who he is), a purely functional, non destructive editing program Here would be my idea: A scripting window for commands, a graphics window which shows the image buffer, and also allows recording of mouse actions (as to script functions like select) [0] http://prog21.dadgum.com/180.html On 2 December 2013 11:54, patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Since a long time I have been using gimp on Windows and Linux. > > Gimp on Linux is rather ok, but on Linux, the portable version and the > 2.8.10 are very slow, which limits drastically the use. > > On an usb installation, gimp might be quite slow, unfortunately. > > Well, in comparison, dwm is a great achievement. Few/limited number of > lines of code which give one of the best wm. > > It shall be the same for the design of a lightweight, well - coded, > photo editor application. Gimp has become quite heavy to install and > particularly slow on some systems. > > I still have no idea in which direction it might go, i.e. how it may looking. > What would be important, but still keeping lite, is to have a support > for moving several layers (images,...) on the top of each. > > In any cases: > It cannot be worst and heavy weight than GIMP. > > You need fortran, .net, perl, ruby, python... for a single application? ;) :) > > With C or alternatively C++, we've got all we need. > > I wish you a good day/evening. > Pat'
