Hi,

How do effect filters work on the image data ?

You can not do that via CORBA because of speed reasons.
Use shared memory?

Bye
Torben


On Mon, 31 May 1999, Matthias Elter wrote:

> Hello
> 
> You perhaps remember the KIMP/KImageShop discussion that recently took place on
> this mailinglist. I'm happy to announce that Michael Koch (KImage), and myself
> (Matthias Elter, KHelpCenter) have started an image manipulation application
> called KImageShop.
> 
> We spent the last weekend working on a basic concept/design:
> 
> Similar to KodeKnight, KImageShop will be based on KOM.
> All interfaces like import/export filters will be implemented as KOM
> components. The KImageShop core application will be designed to be
> light-weight and fast. The core application will "only" handle the image data,
> layers and basic tools, like the move tool or the selection tools. Everything
> else will be implemented as KOM components and loaded as needed. There will
> be well defined KOM interfaces for:
> 
> - import filters,
> - export filters,
> - image manipulation filters,
> - and tools.
> 
> Additional tools like a gradient editor or a screen shot utility
> will be implemented as KOM components, too.
> 
> KImageShop comes with it's own XML based file format.
> We decided to use an XML DTD because it greatly simplifies the
> implementation of import/export filters.
> To be compatible with GIMP KImageShop will have import- and export-filters for
> the GIMP-fileformat.
> 
> KImageShop will provide several types of color representation. This will include
> RGB- and CMYK-color representation.
> 
> With the vast amount of high quality image modification plugins available
> using the GIMP plugin interface we decided to implement a compatibility layer
> for using GIMP plugins with KImageShop. We decided against using the GIMP plugin
> interface as native plugin interface for KImageShop because we feel that a
> CORBA/KOM based plugin interface is much more powerful and simplifies the
> implementation of plugins.
> 
> Similar to KSpread, KImageShop will be scriptable using python.
> 
> KImageShop will make use of the advanced canvas widget based on the upcomign
> KImageMagick lib we would like to develop together with Mosfet.
> 
> We already have been contacted by a few interested people but for a project of
> this size additional developers are needed. If you are interested in this
> project please subscribe to the KImageShop mailinglist (kimageshop@kde.org).
> Send a mail with the subject line "subscribe" to kimageshop-request@kde.org.
> 
> Greetings,
> Matthias
> 
>