Re: [Gimp-developer] RGB vs RGBA - why Add Alpha Channel?

2001-02-23 Thread egger
On 22 Feb, Sven Neumann wrote: We'll face one problem if we decide to make alpha the default for all images: A lot of fileformats do not understand alpha and you actually don't want to save the alpha channel with the image at all if you never touched it. One way to solve this would be to

[Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Nathan, On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Nathan C Summers wrote: Having plug-ins available to run on other hosts would be nice. Think a gimp farm. CORBA would seem to be an ideal solution to all of these issues. Can CORBA handle the large amounts of data transfer gimp requires at least as

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-23 Thread Marc Lehmann
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 04:53:14PM -0500, Michael Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what the gimp protocol is - clearly for _massive_ chunks of data, shared memory is the only way to go. Vladimir has a nice CORBA interface for dealing with setting up shmem chunks to do

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: Layers, dialogs and other bits of love on Valentines Day

2001-02-23 Thread Ernst Lippe
Marc Lehmann wrote: I'd like to remind people that corba is not the only way to go, as there is also dco and especially MCOP (which was designed for realtime and multimedia applications). While CORBA might indeed be the best choice, it mustn't be choosen just because it has more letters ;-