From kde-kimageshop Wed Dec 13 21:15:05 2006 From: Matthew Woehlke Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:15:05 +0000 To: kde-kimageshop Subject: Re: Color manipulation functions in kdelibs? Message-Id: <45806D59.6080908 () users ! sourceforge ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=116604453214228 Cyrille Berger wrote: >>> but then again no >>> one blends one pixel with another. People blend drawables. For that we >>> need a decent image manipulation framework in KDE. For now we don't have >>> it, so the discussion imho is moot. >> Actually, it is far from moot. In order to blend images, you have to >> first be able to blend the pixels in the image. Guess what that means? >> :-) Everything I have been talking about is the *foundation* of that >> "decent image manipulation framework" that we don't have. > > I feel a litlle bit lost at what you are trying to achieve ? At the > beginning of the thread, I got the feeling that you wanted blending > color function for some accessiblity/usuability stuff, but now you are > speaking of an image manipulation framework, which is a big undertaking. > As there is more to image manipulation than color blending and > converting. So please tell us what do you want to achieve so that we can > find the best solution ? No, the thread wandered off in that direction. :-) I am trying to a: steer it back, while b: pointing out that the same functions are potentially of more generic usefulness in the aforementioned direction. Also c: it would be really cool if we accomplished the original goal in a way that allowed blending colors in all the ways people might blend pixels (also because that would be necessary if we used this as a basis for b, which would be good from a code reusability standpoint). IOW your understanding is correct in that the problem that needs to be solved is related to accessiblity/usuability, and also the simple need of 'what color is halfway between X and Y'. I currently believe that a good implementation is one that could additionally serve as a back-end to image manipulation, but that is not one of my goals. Just forward thinking. -- Matthew "unsubscribe me plz!!" -- Newbies _______________________________________________ kimageshop mailing list kimageshop@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kimageshop