Re: [Gimp-developer] image modes and indications

[Martin Nordholts <enselic gmail com>]

2012/1/27 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>:
> Hi,
>
> I've just noticed yet another forum thread where someone asks a
> question in the lines of "why does it not work?" and gets a reply
> "image / mode / rgb".
>
> It pops up so frequentrly that maybe we need some sort of a clever
> notification/indication throughout the application about such things?
> Not sure how it's going to make sense in GEGL-based GIMP where there
> will be no indexed mode, though.

The proper solution to this problem is _not_ to have an indicator of
the current image mode, but to get rid of the concept of image mode
altogether. 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.

/ Martin


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