Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Some testing on current tuxpaint cvs

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 01:44:20AM +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
>> To reproduce:
>> start tuxpaint on window mode at least at 800x600, but is better seen at
>> higher sizes, start top on a xterm or similar, keep both visible.
>> go to magic, clic on mosaic and see how cpu loads and after normalizes.
>> The progress bar is also shown.
>
> Mosaic is a very CPU-heavy task.  Unless Andrew can rewrite it to run
> more sensibly, it will likely be disabled in the next release. (Sorry! :) )

I'm not sure it's a good tool anyway. IMHO,

* art tools are good
* image mangling tools are bad
* completely unrelated tools are bad

AFAIK, not having seen it yet, it falls into that second
catagory. It mangles the images. The point being...?

If a tool has a global effect, that is a BIG hint that the
tool is not all that useful for art. Probably it should go.

Let's keep the focus on art. Some of the recent ideas
are really straying from that, to the detriment of a good
experience creating art.