From kde-devel  Tue Jun 01 13:01:03 1999
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:01:03 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KImageShop project started
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92819470314157

The effects are part of a class that will for now convert directly from a
KPixmap and QImage, and when the canvas is done work directly on that. There is
no need for Corba or anything.

On Mon, 31 May 1999, weis@stud.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
> 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
> > 
> >
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