On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM, artao wrote: > I googled, but haven't found anything particularly recent regarding this.
You could have started with reading news at gimp.org, especially the one from 2011-01-11 (PLANS FOR 2.8 AND BEYOND). You next stops are: http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap http://libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=732 > Please don't take this as snarky. I admit I'm a bit frustrated with the > SLOOWWW pace of development. Sorry. Sorry about what? > Why is it taking so long for higher than 8bpp color depths to be integrated? Because we are a small team with not much time on our hands. > Is it really necessary for the GIMP devs to develop a completely new > system (GEGL) to support this? Yes, it is. > Pull code from other OSS projects?? Why not?? Because it makes no sense. > The best info I've found is contradictory. The official GIMP site states > that ver 2.8 will support high bit depth color. No, it doesn't say that. Read again. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
