Re: merging Electric Eyes and GIMP

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Adrian Likins <adrian@gimp.org> writes:
> > how about this instead: we keep eeyes as it is, but take the color editor
> > and make a gimp plugin out of it, and add to it (the plugin and the
> > standalone) until they're as featureful as xv's color editor, which lets
> > you do all these things:
> > - RGB modification (eeyes has this, and done much better, imho)
> > -overall modification (eeyes has this too)
> > -alter specific entries in the colormap
> > -saturation gauge
> > -alter the value of "white"
> > -HSV modification (whatever that is :)
> > -manual adjustment of color graph (which is no big deal considering eeyes'
> >  awesome color adjustment already, the only reason a manual graph would be
> >  better would be if you were infinitely picky, or wanted to use
> >  y=x(sin(x)) as your graph or something)
> 
> 	Gimp already does 90% of that on its own. Add in a couple of
> plugins, and it does all of it. I dont quite see the point in going
> though the trouble of making it a plugin for whatever little extra
> value you might get.

I guess he is more concerned about the UI than anything. `ee' has a nice
UI for colour adjustment which may be an useful addition to the colour
handling capabilities of `gimp'.

- Hari
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