Quote Originally Posted by johnvanvliet View Post
seeing as in the last 8 YEARS the API gimp uses changed

gimp is dumping gtk ( Gimp Tool Kit ) and moved to GEGL

use the new and current Gmic gimp 2.8.6 plugin

http://gmic.eu/

it has this option already built in
Yes, that works, but a little different. I guess you mean the tile array random filter? The issue is that tiles can be repeated, randomized not shuffled. If I have a 4x4 set of unique tiles, then the new 4x4 may have some repeated and some missing from the original set.

As far as GTK goes, I thought it was unrelated to GEGL. Isn't GTK more of a user interface and GEGL more of a math thing, not so much interface? I must admit I really don't understand this stuff.