On Saturday 15 April 2006 23:14, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 4/15/06, bulia byak wrote:
Adobe has gone the closed, proprietary API for their plug-ins now. There is a gaping hole for a simple bitmap effects plug-in system that would work for both bitmap graphics programs and vector graphics ones.
Just my two penny's worth.
I think it's a great idea, overall. Have you discussed it with Gimp or Krita developers?
I would add digikam developers to the list of potentially interested developers
It's interesting -- but not easy! There's already an "open" specification for plugins, that's mostly used by close source things. Difficult points are: expose tiles or not, scanlines or not, iterators or not, and colorspaces. Oh, and plugins -- just filters, or also tools, colorspaces, effects, imp/exp filters? In Krita, everything can be a plugin :-)
That said, we need to do something. Adobe closing their API has really created a whopping big opportunity for something open and better to oust them :-).
The person in the Krita team who's best suited to discuss this is Cyrille Berger, not me.
I should be working on the OASIS pixel image proposal, but first it's going to be Easter next week, and I'll be too busy to read mail until Monday 24.