Hi,

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Mosfet wrote:

> 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.

Sorry, it is late this night, buttthhh: How do you
implement plugins then ?

They must communicate with the master application which
holds the image data somehow.

bye
Torben

> 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
> > > 
> > >
> --
> Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
> mosfet@kde.org
> mosfet@jorsm.com
> 
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