Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 10/16/2014 03:37 PM, Øyvind Kolås wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Elle Stone
> <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
> > Is there in fact general agreement among the devs that the criteria for
> > deciding when to use sRGB primaries instead of UserRGB primaries is
> > approximately as follows?
>
> the first thing we should do is to
> annotate all the operations which are broken when done with sRGB
> primaries

In other words, you will make a list of all operations that "don't work" 
in unbounded sRGB, and then you will convert from unbounded sRGB to 
UserRGB for those operations, and then back to unbounded sRGB. Good luck 
with that.

> Using a fixed linear RGB format instead of userRGB is what for some
> operations will provide the consistent results for the same property
> values / slider positions.

As a maxim for guiding GIMP development, "consistent results for the 
same property values / slider positions" reflects a profound failure to 
understand the nature of RGB image editing and can only lead to bad code.

With respect,
Elle Stone