Talk:CinePaint

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[edit] "Rejecting" GEGL

"The CinePaint developers chose to follow on from the work in Film GIMP rather than wait have rejected the GIMP library GEGL, and have opted for a less complex system. As an additional simplification, images will simply be stored in linear arrays instead of the complex tiled format used by GIMP."

The implications of this paragraph are highly contentious, I will do my best to explain why. Filmgimp was a branch of GIMP and rather than trying to reintegrate it into mainline GEGL was considered as a better long term solution. However Filmgimp worked well enough that it was put into use rather than waiting for GEGL. As of 2006 GIMP does not yet use GEGL. The Cinepaint developers chose to continue the work on Filmgimp and it is too subjective for Wikipedia to imply this constitutes actively rejecting GEGL rather than continuing to incrementally improve an imperfect but working solution. I saw no way to rephrase the paragraph in a suitable objective manner so I moved it to the discussion page. Horkana