[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Gimp port

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 8/3/05, Florian Boor <florian.boor at kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> borray yulmien wrote:
> > I'm thinking in do a port of a reduced Gimp. It seems possible? I'm
> > wrong? Thanks!
> 
> that should be possible but to make it really useful you would need to work on
> the memory and flash consumption. Another important thing is the fact that you
> don't have multiple mouse buttons.
> 
> Basically it seems to work on similar hardware, i guess Koen can tell us a
> little bit more. This is on an iPAQ hx4700:
> 
> http://handhelds.org/scap/land.22637.png
> http://handhelds.org/scap/land.20582.png
> http://handhelds.org/scap/land.25575.png


Just to chip my 0.2¢ in, I think porting a massive memory-hungry
thingamajick like gimp to a processing power and (relatively) memory
limited machine is cool at best, but has less use value than a bazooka
in fly-hunting.

However,  a subset of image processing tools focused on photo
retouching and tailored for low memory footprint (at the cost of speed
of course) would be a nice and smart thing to have on this device.

For example, you could take some pictures with your camera (using
RS-MMC or adapter for one[1]), put the card into n770, retouch your
favourite annoyances from the picture, resize/crop it and dump it to
your website without ever touching a PC.


[1] Disclaimer: I dunno if either of those exist :)

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi