> > Yes. The idea is to be able to easily support different color schemes
> > and such lateron. The alpha is basically used as a padding value for now. 

> Ok but the problem is that the alpha value isn't really a color information.

Yes. However it is often closely related to an idividual pixel, quite like
the color is.

> So it might not be a good idea to define it in the ggi_color struct, bound to
> the rgb color scheme. If we use the CMYK color scheme, how do we have the 
> alpha channel? There would be a loss of genericity for extensions that 
> would make use of the alpha information regardless of the actual color 
> scheme.
> So is it really a proper way to use alpha channel?

No really. But I'd like to leave it in place for the padding effect it has.

CU, ANdy

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