Re: [Gimp-developer] Specifying chromaticities alongside gegl buffer data

[Øyvind Kolås <pippin gimp org>]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Mukund Sivaraman <muks banu com> wrote:
> 1. A GIMP plug-in's address space is different from the GIMP host
> application's. After a file plug-in is done reading data into the app,
> it is terminated. If a babl format is created using a function such as
> above, how will a plug-in be able to pass a buffer to the host app, so
> that the buffer's format in the host app has corresponding
> chromaticities to what the plug-in had?

This problem is similar to the extra code needed to synchronize
palette/indexed babl formats between the GIMP plug-in host/clients.
Thus some inspiration could be taken from that, or improvements to the
approach might also apply there.

/pippin