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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: New special effects library
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2006-12-18 20:02:58
Message-ID: 200612182103.00335.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Monday 18 December 2006 19:36, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Zack Rusin wrote:
> > KImageEffects served its purpose (it's arguable whether it ever had one).
> > We obviously need something to easily add special effects to our
> > application and it's clear the infrastructure KImageEffects had won't
> > work for the coming years.
> >
> > I've sat down during my vacations last week and started working on a
> > replacement. Some of my requirements for it were:
> > [snip]
>
> What about layer compositing: would that be a valuable feature? (Or does
> it do this already? I don't have an environment in which I can play with
> Qt4 stuff...)

Qt4 has compositing modes, but just the basic porter-duff ones, not the really 
interesting modes like hard/soft light, burn, dodge, screen, dissolve, 
multiply, divide and so on. Those would come in very handy for KOffice...

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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