On Monday, August 13, 2012 07:44:28 PM Omari Stephens wrote: > On 08/13/2012 06:10 PM, Vladimir Nadvornik wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Now, after 1.1 release it is time to focus on next development. > > > > As I wrote earlier, the next release will be 2.0. The main change will > > be Gtk3 port, which I have mostly done. > > > > I also want to implement this: > > > > - GPU based scaling and color management with libclutter > > libclutter? color management? > > Are you referring to this? > http://developer.gnome.org/clutter/1.9/clutter-Colors.html >
I am referring to this: http://www.mail-archive.com/lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02326.html I think that the recent libclutter has all the required functionality to do this with high-level API. > The thing that jumps out to me is that the 8-bit color assumption is > baked in. Given that GIMP master already supports arbitrary-bit-depth > images (not release-ready, yet, but it definitely works), it seems we > should be preparing for an onslaught of 16-bit linear TIFFs and PNGs. > > As a photographer, I know there are lots of situations where 8-bit > formats killed me for banding in large gradient areas (imagine a sunset > in grayscale). > IMHO for a viewer it is enough to use 8bit. I don't think it is possible to display more than 8bit with common hardware. 16bit is necessary for editing. > (Naive statement) I'd personally like to see us use babl to support > arbitrary color formats. To be explicitly clear, I don't know what we > do or don't support today, and I also don't know how babl might affect > our performance. Just wanted to put that out there, though. > The main problem is that Geeqie uses GdkPixbuf internally, which is only 8bit. It also uses scalling functions from Gdk which operate on Pixbuf. So changing to 16bit would require replacing almost everything. Vladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
