Merging profiles into colorspaces

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 17 September 2005 16:49, Casper Boemann wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been thinking about our colorspace design.
>
> Currently we have profiles and colorspaces, they are matched up in the
> paint device. But actually a profile is a specialisation of a colormodel.
>
> What we currently call colorspace is actually a colormodel.
> A colorspace is a colormodel plus a profile.
>
> Our code should reflect that.
>
> I still want colorspaces to be singletons. Or rather "multipletons" if that
> is a word. That is, only one instance of each colormodel+profile. So a
> constructor something like KisColorSpace(KisProfile) and the factory like
> getInstance(KisID)
>
> If the colorspace with the same KisID already exists then we don't create
> it again.
>
> It would be much easier to use.
>
> I can see lots of advantages, but can any of you see any problems.
>
> I would be willing to do the coding


Now I'm a little more rested, I'm seeing a couple of issues apart from the 
points I mentioned yesterday (we still need to be able to have colorspaces 
without profiles, it may solve the problem of distinguishing transforms, 
problems with the memory cache in the colorspace class):

* We need to keep the user interface as is. The current color management user 
interface is carefully modellen on Some Other App, and I like to keep it that 
way. It fits the way people have been taught to use profiles. That means that 
we're not going to have a KisID for the combination of CS + Profile.

* When saving or exporting, we again need to conform to expectations of other 
applications that have separated CS and Profile in different entities.

* We need to check our colorspace conversion functions: do we actually convert 
the pixels when changing only the profile? We should.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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