Hi I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to implement as little as possible of the low-level image-manipulation functionality in F-spot itself. The goals of the GEGL http://www.gegl.org/ library, which also aims to be the back-end of GIMP seems like it can be quite useful.
Image operations are specified in an XML file, which would make it quite easy to store manipulations in the F-Sport DB. This would also make it possibe to import/export image manipulations for use with other apps. Using GEGL will make the performance and correctness of various image operations an SEP (Sombody Else's Problem). Since it should become the back-end to GIMP I'm sure it will get a lot more love than the F-spot community could give a similar library on its own. Of course GEGL has been a long time coming (as anyone who longs for more than 8bit/channel support in GIMP may well be aware), but there seems to have been some encouraging activity of late. It seems like it may already be useful for F-spot's needs. I say this all as a non-developer and currently non-user of F-spot, but I do sense much potential in F-spot. I also think using GEGL or similar as the back-end for the image manipulations is a Right Thing (tm). So there you have my 2c :) Regards Neilen -- you know its kind of tragic we live in the new world but we've lost the magic -- Battery 9 (www.battery9.co.za) _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
