From kde-devel Mon May 31 14:38:37 1999 From: Mosfet Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:38:37 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: New KDE canvas project? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92811534918863 Hi all, It's been a busy weekend full of going through ImageMagick code, talking to various developers of different projects, and answering a lot of email but what I have essentially come up with is we are going to need a new advanced canvas class for KDE if we want advanced graphics applications. Requirements would be the capability to handle multiple layers, views, and color channels. This is a large task to do well and if we want it to get done in a reasonable amount of time and not suck it is going to require a few developers to work on it. Thus I think all of us who are interested in having sophisticated graphics applications like KImageShop and KPaint II get together, layout an implementation, and go from there. We have some existing code we can use from other KDE apps, so we won't be starting entirely from scratch. We will be able to use the ImageMagick effects and such immediately by providing convertToPixmap() and constructors that take KPixmaps, but looking at it and other image manipulation programs it is becoming apparent that we need a new canvas to be able to take full advantage of this stuff. We can't just use an array of bytes like an XImage. So if you are intrested lets all get together and start something :) -- Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin. mosfet@kde.org mosfet@jorsm.com