Hi, There was a discussion recently on inkscape-devel@ about having open source plug-ins like Photoshop's ones - that could be supported by multiple applications.
We already have KIPI plug-ins in KDE that are supported by several applications, so I have a couple of questions: 1. How exactly many developers like the idea of having uniform API for plug-ins? 2. How KDE dependent are these plug-ins? Do they provide "logic" and their UI can be drawn in any host, be it Gtk based or Qt/KDE based host - like DSSI plug-ins do (audio/midi plug-ins based on LADSPA), or are they strictly for KDE hosts? 3. Is it possible to use same plug-ins (not all, though) for both bitmap and vector graphics? 4. Is it possible at all to create a uniform API for plug-ins that could work e.g. in both Krita and GIMP (and with GIMP I mean upcoming GEGL-based GIMP) with regard to color management, bit depth (8/16/32 floating point per channel), color spaces etc? I believe that having uniform plug-ins API would nicely complement Multilayered bitmap graphics format and non-destructive processing workflow. Alexandre _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
