On Thursday 21 January 2010, you wrote: > >> So far I have left out filters and such, because I am not aware (call > >> me ignorant if you wish) of any application that would use them very > >> intensively. > > > > Well krita does since 1.5, and next version of Gimp will. But, both of > > them might not be the main customers of your library, at least for Krita, > > which has already its own facilities for open raster. > > It is not _my_ library :D Anyway ... in what language is Krita open > raster support written in? All of krita is written in C++ and using QtXML, I don't think anything can be used.
> >> For now my plans are to add thumbnail support and global metadata (are > >> there any specifications on that?) ... > > > > No, not yet. I think we are aiming at support for RDF/XMP, with something > > like that: > > > > <layer ... metadata="data/layer1metadata.xmp" /> > > and > > <image ... metadata="data/imagemetadata.rdf" /> > > > > Unless we want to have more than one metadata file per-layer, and do > > something like: > > <layer ...> > > <metadata type="xmp" file="data/layer1metadata.xmp" /> > > <metadata type="rdf" file="data/layer1metadata.rdf" /> > > </layer> > > This sounds like it is still being discussed. And I think this is the > main problem of the standard or the proposal ... almost nothing is > fixed. What is in the drafts is fixed. > I really have little interest in implementing something that > does not have some consensus and formalization ... one can hardly call > it a standard then. What I am trying to propose from the beginning > (and nobody wants to comment apparently) is that some simple version > of the standard is formalized and everything that is still discussed > is postponed. We insert some version identifier in the format and call > the current standard version 1.0 for example. I would be fined with that. > Then we start from there > and make things more complex. As the most evolved applications (like > Gimp and Krita) use their own formats I see no problem with that ... One of the goal for us, in Krita, is to replace our own format with OpenRaster. > and we can finally have some final version of the standard that can be > used by all the more simple specialized applications to gain at least > basic data-connectivity with ... lets say Gimp. -- Cyrille Berger _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
