[Digikam-devel] [Bug 133907] New: A 'film noir' plugin

[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Caulier Gilles wrote:

> Le Lundi 11 Septembre 2006 20:16, Arnd Baecker a écrit :
> > How much of krita/gimp/... should be re-implemented in digikam in
> > the long run?
> > Could one use something like krita plug-ins in digikams image editor
> > to avoid code duplication?
> >
>
> digiKam image editor isn't krita. krita isn't digiKam image editor.

I am very well aware of this.

> For any technical reason, digikam image plugins are different than krita.
> plugins under digiKam existed before than krita is become mature.
>
> Also, digiKam only support RGB color space in 8/16 bits color depth
> (photograph). Krita run with more color spaces and more color depth. Krita is
> not dedicaced to photograph only...
>
> Forget definitivly a possible merge between krita and digiKam. It' not
> possible. Trying to do it is the right way kill digiKam project.

Oh - that's surely the last thing I would like to do ;-) -
sorry if my question was not clear enough in this respect.
Actually, my question was heading precisely in the direction of
your reply: If one starts to think about layers and such,
this is really the area of krita/gimp etc., i.e. *huge* projects.

Still, it is not easy where to make the border as the digikam
image editor already does a couple of things which are also available
in other graphics manipulation software (e.g. curves, transforms, effects
...).
You can already do a lot in the image editor, but for more complicated
things a full-blown image manipulation software might be needed.
No problem to invoke gimp/krita (whatever) for those tasks.

To me it seems that the main point of digikam is the
administration of images, not their manipulation.
On the other hand, the conversion from raw to jpeg is important,
but already a manipulation.

Best, Arnd