On Sunday 16 October 2005 20:03, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Oct 16, 2005, at 4:20 AM, Charles Moir wrote: One thing to look into a bit might be Cinelerra.
That's an old version apparantly; a snapshot. The more Open Source branch is at cinelerra.org.
I know that in the past (back with just Sodipodi) some people were working on hooking them together for some workflow. Then it had come up again on Jabber with us.
KDE has a system called KIPI which allows the same effects plugins to work in paint packages, digital camera utilities, image browsers, etc. I think there are three or four apps already that use it.
I think that's the same general issue. How best to get things to "play nice" between all apps, in a way that serves both different user types and different companies is the key. Maximizing win-win is the main thing to look at.
It's worth noting that a decent clipboard system would cover a lot of this inter-working stuff. If you could copy an SVG to the clipboard, and then go to another app, choosing whether to paste the actual SVG image, or just an instance of it, or whether to paste the SVG vs. a rendered bitmap etc., then you'd have a pretty flexible system that would allow all sorts of cool stuff in a well-understood way. This would also solve interacting with 3D apps, if you could just paste an instance of a 2D SVG drawing in, and then extrude it.