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Re: s/ImageMagic//g
by D. Rollings on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @12:27

You know what I think KDE needs to standardize for all of us?

Datatypes. Small generic libraries dealing with specific media formats. Datatype-aware programs become forward compatible; compile a library for a new image type, and all programs dealing with images know how to use that file. Amiga OS 3.x did it, OS/2 Warp did it... what are we waiting for? I've been wanting datatypes for audio, 3D objects, image formats and more for a while! They show these MIME associations that Windows 95 somehow lowered our expectations to for the crude, inflexible constructs that they are.

And if a datatype has to call ImageMagick, big deal. It'd be a minimal chunk of code for the purists to revise later.

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Re: s/ImageMagic//g
by ac on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @14:11

At least as standardized wrappers (in cases of ImageMagick and Xinelib etc.) this would be really a nice idea, possibly this could be done for KDE4. Did you suggest that at some central place already?

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Re: s/ImageMagic//g
by D. Rollings on Monday 27/Jun/2005, @06:35

I have as of now. It looks as though the kfile and kimgio libraries certainly fill in the gap for images with a plugin architecture; at this point, I have a general interest in seeing whether this approach extends to other formats.

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Re: s/ImageMagic//g
by Anonymous Gnome on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @11:14

between gdkpixbuf and gstreamer gnome has effectively done this for images and video but it was largely incidental and unfortunately not part of some greater plan. no reason why kde couldn't do one better.

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