Re: [Gimp-developer] image modes and indications

[Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Martin Nordholts wrote:

> The proper solution to this problem is _not_ to have an indicator of
> the current image mode,

...which I didn't even suggest :)

> but to get rid of the concept of image mode altogether.

Completely agreed

> Images shall always be composed in 32-bit floating point
> RGBA and then have suitable filters and export mechanisms to deal with
> grayscale and indexed images.

Which, however, isn't the main point of my mail :)

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org