https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404317
--- Comment #2 from brainchild <cont...@ericlevy.name> --- I am afraid that the purpose of the request may have been lost in your response. No part of the request had the intention, or would have the effect, of competing with ImageMagick. The purpose of this request, as is the purpose largely of standard input and output generally, is to facilitate interoperation of applications to achieve an effect that neither application fully supports in isolation. If you look at the example, you see that Krita is used to achieve an effect that ImageMagick cannot achieve, that is, to read a Krita file; whereas ImageMagick is used to create an effect that Krita cannot achieve, that is, command-line image processing. Together, through the pipe, the two applications do achieve this effect. Intermediary files are generally an option, but often create other issues, such as managing their deletion and finding a location to place them, in the case of scripts. If Krita did offer the full suite of processing capabilities via command line, then the pipe with ImageMagick might be unnecessary. As you correctly say, however, such is not the purpose of Krita. Krita should, however, permit easy interoperation with other tools via pipes, and my request that Krita open standard output instead of a physical file is hardly a tall order. Since no tool currently exists, to my knowledge, other than Krita, that can read a Krita file, the requested feature effectively augments not duplicates the current utility of ImageMagick, such as in the case of producing a JPEG file to half the scale of an existing Krita file. I understand that "feature request" might be a better classification than "bug" for this issue, but I ask you to take it seriously, given the low difficulty of implementation and the considerable utility of use. Given the prevalence and usefulness of support for standard output, I am inclined to suggest that the request is closer to a missing feature than to merely a nice-to-have. Please consider not giving it a classification so low that it is unlikely to be noticed. Thank you for reviewing the clarification, and for taking the time to understand the rationale. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
