On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 12:01 +0100, Charles Moir wrote:
Now if you wanted a suggestion for some Google sponsored code that would benefit everyone, it would be a cross-platform open API to allow vector graphics products, such as our two products, to apply bitmap effects transparently to vector graphics. The Photoshop plug-in API is not just closed, it's over-complex, outdated and been superseded by an entirely closed new API from Adobe.
This would then allow us to call GIMP effects or ImageMagick effects or any third party effect plug-ins (the Photoshop plug-in system, although now outdated, was hugely successful. There are said to be more than 3000 different Photoshop plug-ins out there.)
Well, this may be a bad word, but I'm going to say it: GEGL
I realize that it is kinda a joke in that GIMP will use it someday, but I get the feeling that they are getting closer to switching to something close. GEGL was supposed to be the new bitmap rendering pipeline for GIMP 2.0 that never happened. But, if it was to happen, it would seem that we should be able to plug all the GIMP plugins in by supporting the GEGL interfaces for our bitmap data.
Anyone that went to the Libre Graphics Meeting have any more information on the realities of GEGL?
--Ted