GLSL/Shiva style Filter Preview

[Cyrille Berger]

On Tuesday 22 July 2008, Thomas Burdick wrote:
> One of the things I never really liked about the way the glsl plugin
> worked, was the dialog, and especially the preview.
>
> I almost feel like the preview should be shown on the canvas itself.
>
> Is this a bad idea? Can it be done easily? How would I do it if so?
>
> I suppose Cyrille's Shiva  and this GLSL plugin should probably
> preview in a similar manner since they provide similar functionality.
>
> Your thoughts?
Well my plan when I will integrate Shiva in Krita is to have it act as a 
filter, which will give the in-canvas preview for free (and every other 
integration as well). What I am unsure is wether having one Shiva filter, 
with a list of effects, or generating one Krita filter for each effect.

-- 
Cyrille Berger