* Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [030814 18:06]: > At 4:41 PM +0200 8/14/03, Øyvind Kolås wrote: > >The baseline GEGL library will be exactly the baseline functionality > >needed to be able to something useful with the file,. compositing the > >layers, layer groups, and effect layers into a single image. And in that > >process handling the various kinds of layers (8bit, 16bit 16bit float, > >32bit float, rgb, cmyk etc.) > > Sure, if I don't already have that type of functionality in > my own application that would be useful. > > But let's say that I am Photoshop or ImageMagick, which > already have layer (with effects), a compositing engine, etc. All I > want is to load GEGL/GIMP data from disk into my own data structures. > I do NOT want/need all of your functionality - just want to read the > file! Then you jsut want to be able to understand the XML file, which is the reason I proposed using something like xml in the first place, the rest of the logic would then be contained in your application. Then only additional kind of logic would then be a small api allowing you to get to each individual "file" within the archive or directory. -- .^. /V\ Øyvind Kolås, Gjøvik University College, Norway /(_)\ <oeyvindk@xxxxxx>,<pippin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ^ ^
